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Ch 6: The Progressive Spirit of Reform

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
City and county politics in the late 1800s were influenced by organizations called
a)
political machines
b)
political mobs
c)
voting leagues
d)
voting drives
2.
William Howard Taft's main criticism of President Theodore Roosevelt was that he
a)
Opposed big business regulation
b)
Claimed more power for his presidency than the Constitution allowed
c)
Hurt conservation efforts by leasing public lands to big business
d)
Encouraged the formation of monopolies
3.
Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interests of consumers, laborers, and businesspeople was called
a)
the Great Society
b)
the Fair Play Accord
c)
the Square Deal
d)
the New Way
4.
Business leaders opposed granting women the right to vote mainly because they thought
a)
women should focus on the prohibition of alcohol
b)
women voters would support government anticorruption efforts
c)
only married women should have a voice in government
d)
women voters would support minimum wage and child labor
5.
Journalists who wrote about problems in society during the Progressive age were known as
a)
Progressives
b)
reformers
c)
muckrakers
d)
capitalists
6.
What was the main reason for the rise in Mexican immigration between 1901 and 1930?
a)
Mexicans could cross the U.S. border with relative ease
b)
Mexicans became a key part of the Southwest economy
c)
Mexicans  could occupy areas that once belonged to Mexico
d)
Mexicans immigrated with their children and extended families
7.
What was Booker T. Washington's strategy towards ending discrimination?
a)
write articles exposing the lynching of African-Americans
b)
encouraged African-Americans to improve their educational and economic well-being
c)
encourages them to fight for suffrage
d)
by picketing and going on hunger strikes
8.
Who were reformers who worked together to improve society?
a)
Political Machines 
b)
Socialists
c)
Capitalists
d)
Progressives
9.
Whose reforms angered Progressives because they did not destroy trusts completely?
a)
John Dewey
b)
William Howard Taft
c)
William McKinley
d)
Boss Tweed
10.
Describe the result of workplace laws passed during the Progressive movement.
a)
Eased reformers minds but were not always enforced
b)
Increased trust between labor and big business
c)
Caused big business to take operations abroad
d)
Let to decreased government interference in the economy
11.
Why did child labor continue after the reforms of 1910?
a)
Greedy factory owners lied about workers' ages
b)
Corruption made government monitoring useless
c)
Poor families needed the income
d)
The courts established high child wage rates
12.
How did politicians confront corruption in Washington during the Gilded Age?
a)
Increasing security at the polls
b)
Passing a law that established a new system for granting federal jobs
c)
Recruiting honest, reform-minded candidates to run for office
d)
Identifying it as a partisan problem
13.
What was the 17th Amendment?
a)
Expanding voting rights by allowing voters to elect senators
b)
Gave Women the right to vote
c)
Imposed a direct tax on income
d)
Gave African American men the right to vote
14.
What organization brought attention to racial inequality by using the courts to fight grandfather clauses?
a)
National Urban League
b)
NAACP
c)
NAWSA
d)
American Legion
15.
Journalists who wrote about problems in society during the Progressive Movement were known as...
a)
Muckrakers
b)
Progressives
c)
Reformers
d)
Capitalists
16.
The right to vote is called
a)
suffrage
b)
emancipate
c)
enfranchisement
d)
utopia
17.

The __________ __________ is the practice of giving government jobs to supporters after a candidate wins an election

a)

Gilded System

b)

Rewards System

c)

Spoils System

d)

Civil Service

18.

Who founded the National Women's Party?

a)

Alice Paul

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Michelle Obama

19.

Some people thought ____________ was unfair because competition may cause managers to to consider profits as more important than working conditions.

a)

Socialism

b)

Capitalism

c)

Militarism

d)

Imperialism

20.

Who worked to improve the education of medical professionals?

a)

Muckrakers

b)

Political Bosses

c)

The National Women's Party

d)

Progressives

21.

Workers Compensation Laws ______________ that companies would pay workers injured on the job a portion of lost wages

a)

guaranteed

b)

prohibited

c)

made it optional

d)

did not enforce

22.

____________ drew attention to the lynching of African Americans while fighting discrimination

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

W.E.B. De Boise

d)

NAACP

23.

A major goal of the Society of American Indians was to ____________________.

a)

Preserve Native American Culture

b)

Integrate Native Americans into "White Society"

24.

Using this process voters can propose news laws by gathering signatures on petitions

a)

referendum

b)

initiative

c)

recall

d)

17th Amendment

25.

To help conservation, Theodore Roosevelt did not

a)

double the number of national parks.

b)

start 51 new bird sanctuaries.

c)

reate 18 national monuments.

d)

sign a bill into law limiting the use of fossil fuels.

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