WorksheetsThe Progressive Era
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 24mins
Which sentence below best explains the Progressive Movement?
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller are sometimes called Robber barons.
By the 1920s, women could vote.
Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were both Progressives.
The Progressive Movement was an effort to reform (improve) the problems that had come about after the Industrial Revolution.
Julia Tutwiler became a great reformer in the state of Alabama in the early 1900s because
her efforts in prison reform
her efforts in women’s rights
her efforts in education reform
all of the above
What types of activities did wealthy business owners do to improve society?
Their companies created jobs and produces useful products.
They gave millions of dollars to help the poor, and they built libraries, universities, hospitals, and museums.
Both A and B
None of the above
Which union was successful during the Gilded Age?
The American Federation of Labor
The Homestead Strike
The Secretary of Labor
The Haymarket Square Riot
Why did so many people immigrate to the US between the years 1880 and 1950?
Many Jewish people in Europe were being prosecuted.
A horrible disease destroyed the potato crop in Ireland.
Many of these people were poor, hungry, unemployed and without basic freedoms of speech and religion.
all of the above
Why were large cities good places for immigrants to settle?
Cities were growing places with factories that offered jobs.
Cities were crowded and dirty.
Some anti-immigrant feelings eventually became laws.
There were many poor people living in cities.
How did public schools help immigrant children during the 1800s and early 1900s?
School was a place for memorizing facts.
John Dewey was a famous psychologist and educator.
School was a place where children could learn to read and write a new language, as well as learn a new culture.
Schools were filled with immigrant children trying to adjust to a new and unfamiliar home.
This amendment banned the making, sale, or transporting of Alcoholic beverages.
16th
17th
18th
19th
This amendment required the direct election of U.S. Senators by popular vote.
16th
17th
18th
19th
This amendment gave power to the Federal Government to set an income tax.
16th
17th
18th
19th
This amendment repealed the 18th amendment & Prohibition.
16th
17th
18th
21st
This amendment expanded voting rights to Women in all U.S. elections.
16th
17th
18th
19th
_____ started the Hull House to offer resources to Chicago's immigrants.
Theodore Roosevelt
Jane Addams
Clara Barton
Julia Tutwiler
_____ was a Progressive who enforced laws to break up illegal trusts and started the National Parks System.
Theodore Roosevelt
Jane Addams
Clara Barton
Julia Tutwiler
_____ was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross.
Theodore Roosevelt
Jane Addams
Clara Barton
Julia Tutwiler
_____ was an advocate for education and prison reform in Alabama.
Theodore Roosevelt
Jane Addams
Clara Barton
Julia Tutwiler
What was the goal/purpose of establishing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
fight segregation and expand equal rights for whites
fight segregation and expand equal rights for blacks
promote segregation and expand equal rights for whites
promote segregation and expand equal rights for blacks
President ________ was known as a Progressive leader for breaking up corporate trusts, passing the Pure Food & Drug Act, and creating National Parks.
Upton Sinclair
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Corruption existed in many areas of society, allowing the rich and powerful to continue to gain wealth at the expense of the working class. What did Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and other Muckrackers do to solve this problem?
investigate and write articles and books to expose corruption in society
fight for safer working conditions, shorter work days, and to end child labor
create settlement houses in urban communities to provide resources for immigrant families
enforce laws to break up illegal trusts
The wealthy lived like royalty seemingly unaware of the dismal poverty that may others faced. Jacob A. Riis photographed "How the Other Half Live". His purpose was to ______________.
show the inequality of segregation
show the need for better working conditions
show the gilded lifestyles of the wealthy
show the living conditions of people in poverty
Mother Jones and Samuel Gompers contributed to social reforms during the Progressive Era. In what way did they contribute?
protecting workers
helping immigrants
exposing poverty
conservation
This excerpt is from which Progressive Era amendment?
14th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
What happened to the Eighteenth Amendment, excerpted here, fourteen years after it was ratified?
It was reversed with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.
It was upheld after the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
It was enforced by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
It was changed in time for women to vote in the presidential election.
According to this quote from W.E.B. Du Bois, which right was key to ending racial inequality?
discrimination
economic power
segregation
voting
