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The Progressive Era

Total questions: 56

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
2.
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Upton Sinclair
3.
Which of the following is an initiative?
a)
People have the right to remove a politician from office
b)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
c)
People have the right to propose a new law
d)
People have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government
4.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
5.
Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
6.
Progressive President who was endorsed originally by Roosevelt (who later runs against him), disliked the presidency, busted up trusts and  monopolies
a)
William H. Taft
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Chester A. Arthur
7.
1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 
a)
Upton Sinclair 
b)
Lincoln Steffens 
c)
Jacob Riis 
d)
Frank Norris 
8.
17th Amendment-
a)
Banned sale, distribution and manufacture of alcohol
b)
required direct election of US Senators
c)
established the Income Tax
d)
Gave women suffrage rights
9.

Different reform efforts of the late 1800s and early 1900s were collectively known as

a)

The Progressive Movement

b)

The New Era

c)

The Civil Rights Era

d)

The Gilded Age

e)

The Roaring Age

10.

four goals of Progressivism

a)

Protecting Social Welfare

b)

Promoting Moral Improvement

c)

creating economic reform

d)

fostering efficiency

e)

All the answers are correct

11.

Reform Mayor _______ _______ of Detroit tackles taxes, transit fares, corruption

a)

Hazen Pingree

b)

Howard Taft

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

Jacob Riis

e)

Upton Sinclair

12.

Muller v. Oregon upholds

a)

limiting women to 10 hour workday

b)

gave voting rights to women

c)

required truth and labeling on food and medicne

d)

required the Direct Election of Senators

13.

____________ _________upholds 10-hour workday for men

a)

Bunting v.Oregon

b)

Roe V. Wade

c)

Plessy V. Ferguson

d)

Alabama V. Bunting

14.

Founded the National Woman Suffrage Association

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Ida Tarbell

d)

Carrie Nation

15.

Convince state legislatures to give women right to vote

Test 14th Amendment—states lose representation if deny women vote

Push for constitutional amendment to give women the vote

was the Three-Part Strategy for Suffrage

a)

True

b)

False

16.

WCTU

a)

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

b)

Women's Christian Voting Union

c)

Wyoming Christian Temperance Union

d)

Women's Christian Typing Union

17.

Women’s Christian Temperance Union's main goal

a)

Voting Rights

b)

Prison Reform

c)

Prohibtion

d)

Getting Women Elected

18.

Author of How the other half lives

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Howard Taft

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

19.

Author of the Jungle

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Howard Taft

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

20.

the Jungle describes

a)

The Horror of the meatpacking industry

b)

The Election of 1912

c)

Crime and Poverty of Immigrant neighborhoods

d)

The Prohibition Movement

21.

The Progressive Presidents

a)

Wilson

b)

Taft

c)

Roosevelt

d)

Hoover

e)

Mckinley

22.

What were the circumstances of Roosevelt becoming President

a)

He won on a 3 party ticket

b)

President McKinley was assassinated

c)

President McKinley resigned

d)

How won the Popular vote but not the electoral college.

23.

President Roosevelt was the __________to ever become President

a)

first Catholic

b)

Youngest Man

c)

Oldest Man

d)

fattest man

24.

Roosevelt’s progressive reforms were known as

a)

New Freedoms

b)

Square Deal

c)

the new deal

d)

the lost cause

25.

Roosevelt known was known a

a)

Trustbuster

b)

A dishonest president

c)

A quiet and unhappy President

d)

The peoples President

26.

Roosevelts uses the _________ to Break up Trusts

a)

Sherman Anti-trust act

b)

18th Amendment

c)

17th Amendment

d)

the 16th Amendment

e)

The Pure Food And Drug Act

27.

Roosevelt attacked all Trust while he was President

a)

True

b)

False

28.

Roosevelt threatened to ___________ during the 1902 Coal Strike

a)

side with the Miners

b)

Side with the Mine Owners

c)

Use Federal Troops to Work the Mines

d)

Close all the mines

29.

Sets the Principal of federal intervention when strike threatens public

a)

1902 Coal Strike

b)

The Haymarket Riot

c)

The Riot of 1920

d)

The Pullman Strike

30.

dictates sanitary requirements & creates federal meat inspection program

a)

The Pure Food and Drug Act

b)

The Meat Inspection Act

c)

The Tarley Smoot Act

d)

19th Amendment

31.

halts sale of contaminated food, medicine & requires truth in labeling

a)

The Pure Food and Drug Act

b)

The Meat Inspection Act

c)

The Tarley Smoot Act

d)

19th Amendment

32.

Roosevelt sets aside forest reserves, sanctuaries, national park because

a)

the Constitution required him to

b)

involved in Conservation Measures

c)

making more space available for military training

d)

for factories and railroads to expand

33.

Taft was a _________ Progressive

a)

conservative

b)

liberal

c)

Constitutional

d)

Democratic

34.

After the White House.......Taft would

a)

serve on the Supreme Court

b)

Serve as Wilson's VP

c)

Serve as the Secretary of the Navy

d)

Serve as Governor of New Jersey

35.

President Wilson Promised Americans a

a)

New Deal

b)

New Freedom

c)

Square Deal

d)

new day

36.

Woodrow Wilson created the _____________ in 1913 to regulate the economy by adjusting the money supply and interest rates

a)

Federal Reserve System

b)

The FDIC

c)

The Department of Interior

d)

Federal Treasury Institute.

37.

created the first national income tax

a)

16th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

17th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

38.

Amendment. that outlawed alcohol (prohibition)

a)

16th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

17th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

39.

brought an end to the Progressive Era

a)

The Great Depression

b)

1902 Coal Strike

c)

America enters WWI

d)

The The election of 1912

40.

an early-20th-century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life

a)

Progressive Movement

b)

muckraker

c)

scientific management

d)

Initiative

e)

Referendum

41.

one of the magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s

a)

Progressive Movement

b)

muckraker

c)

scientific management

d)

Initiative

e)

Referendum

42.

the application of scientific principles to increase efficiency in the workplace

a)

Progressive Movement

b)

muckraker

c)

scientific management

d)

Initiative

e)

Referendum

43.

a procedure by which a legislative measure can be originated by the people rather than by lawmaker

a)

Progressive Movement

b)

muckraker

c)

scientific management

d)

Initiative

e)

Referendum

44.

a procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people

a)

Progressive Movement

b)

muckraker

c)

scientific management

d)

Initiative

e)

Referendum

45.

a procedure for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people

a)

Recall

b)

17th Amendment

c)

Suffrage

d)

NAWSA

e)

The Jungle

46.

an amendment to the U.S.Constitution, adopted in 1913, that provides for the election of U.S.senators by the people rather than by state legislatures

a)

Recall

b)

17th Amendment

c)

Suffrage

d)

NAWSA

e)

The Jungle

47.

the right to vote

a)

Recall

b)

17th Amendment

c)

Suffrage

d)

NAWSA

e)

The Jungle

48.

the National American Woman Suffrage Association—an organization founded in 1890 to gain voting rights for women

a)

Recall

b)

17th Amendment

c)

Suffrage

d)

NAWSA

e)

The Jungle

49.

novel by Upton Sinclair, published in 1906, that portrays the dangerous and unhealthy conditions prevalent in the meatpacking industry at that time

a)

Recall

b)

17th Amendment

c)

Suffrage

d)

NAWSA

e)

The Jungle

50.

President Theodore Roosevelt’s program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big business

a)

Square Deal

b)

NAACP

c)

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

d)

Bull Moose Party

e)

Federal Trade Commision

51.

the National Association for theAdvancement of Colored People—an organization founded in1909 to promote full racial equality

a)

Square Deal

b)

NAACP

c)

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

d)

Bull Moose Party

e)

Federal Trade Commision

52.

a set of tax regulations, enacted by Congress in 1909, that failed to significantly reduce tariffs on manufactured goods

a)

Square Deal

b)

NAACP

c)

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

d)

Bull Moose Party

e)

Federal Trade Commision

53.

a name given to the Progressive Party,formed to support Theodore Roosevelt’s candidacy for the presidency in 1912

a)

Square Deal

b)

NAACP

c)

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

d)

Bull Moose Party

e)

Federal Trade Commision

54.

a federal agency established in 1914 to investigate and stop unfair business practices

a)

Square Deal

b)

NAACP

c)

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

d)

Bull Moose Party

e)

Federal Trade Commision

55.

the banning of the manufacture,sale, and possession of alcoholic beverage

a)

Square Deal

b)

NAACP

c)

Prohibition

d)

Bull Moose Party

e)

Federal Trade Commision

56.

an amendment to the U.S.Constitution, adopted in 1920, that gives women the right to vote

a)

17th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

Nineteenth Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

e)

20th Amendment

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