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Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which groups were most influential in passing the Pure Food and Drug Act?

a)

Southern Farmers and clergy members

b)

Factory owners and bankers

c)

Muckrakers and women's organizations

d)

College students and immigrants

2.

The Progressive goal to implement women's suffrage was accomplished by --

a)

a national referendum

b)

an executive order

c)

a Supreme Court decision

d)

a constitutional amendment

3.

The Progressive goal to implement women's suffrage was accomplished by --

a)

a national referendum

b)

an executive order

c)

a Supreme Court decision

d)

a constitutional amendment

4.

settlement house

a)

a house for settlers to live in while they are building their own home

b)

a development of houses that serves as a community

c)

an area of poverty that is a problem

d)

a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services

5.
Which amendment guaranteed the right to vote for black men?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
16th Amendment
6.
Which amendment establishes direct election of US senators?
a)
10th Amendment
b)
15th Amendment
c)
17th Amendment
d)
12th Amendment
7.

Period of time in American history when many changes were made to reform different problems in the US

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

Cold War

c)

Westward Expansion

d)

Progressive Era

8.

Who used photography to show the bad side of tenement living and wrote “How the Other Half Lives”?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

W E B dubois

d)

Jane Addams

9.

Monopolies were the target of this writer and wrote a book called “The History of Standard Oil”?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

John Dewey

10.

Who dealt with African American civil rights, helped to start the NAACP?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

W E B dubois

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Upton Sinclair

11.
Which heading best completes the partial outline below?
I. _________________________________
A. The United States claims the Hawaiian Islands. B. Puerto Rico becomes a United States territory.
C. The United States fights an insurrection in the Philippine Islands.
D. The United States Senate ratifies the Panama Canal treaty
a)
Rise of American Imperialism
b)
Causes of World War I
c)
Enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine
d)
Trade Expansion in East Asia
12.
Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?
a)
Teddy Roosevelt
b)
Taft
c)
Woodrow Wilson
d)
Luke Skywalker
13.

American anger grew after the release of a letter written by the Spanish Minister to the U.S. that insulted president McKinley. What was it called?

a)

de Lome Letter

b)

Open Door Notes

c)

Roosevelt Corollary

d)

Letters from Birmingham

14.

Which of the following lands did the US NOT get as a result of the Spanish American War?

a)

Guam

b)

Phillipines

c)

Puerto Rico

d)

Hawaii

15.
Naval commodore who sailed into Tokyo Bay, Japan, in 1853
a)
Frederick J. Turner
b)
Matthew Perry
c)
Queen Liliuokalani
d)
Alfred T. Mahan
16.

Who was the president during World War I ?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

William Howard Taft

c)

William McKinley

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

17.
Germany used their U-boats to sink ships of the Allied powers; this British passenger liner was destroyed in 1917.
a)
Lusitania
b)
USS Maine
18.
Which newspaper headline might have appeared during 1914-1918
a)
U.S. defeats Spain
b)
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
c)
German U-Boats attack merchant ships
d)
Women gain the right to vote
19.
What is the term given to the policy where America stay out of the political affairs of other countries?
a)
Isolationism
b)
Suffrage
c)
Nativism
d)
Interventionism
20.
What ended up happening that turned most of America against Prohibition?
a)
Many died from Alcohol Withdrawal
b)
Crime Rates Increased
c)
Church attendance Decreased 
d)
The President spoke out against Prohibition