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Progressive Era Test Review

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which amendment were the men in the photograph against?
a)
21st
b)
19th
c)
18th
d)
20th
2.
Which amendment tried to prohibit the industry depicted in this image?
a)
18th
b)
19th
c)
13th
d)
14th
3.
What era is represented by the desire for improved safety conditions, reduced work hours, and restrictions on child labor?
a)
Modern Social Movement
b)
Realism Movement
c)
Progressive Movement
d)
Civil Rights Movement
4.
Which two women were influential in gaining women's suffrage?
a)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.Anthony
b)
Jane Addams and Susan B. Anthony
c)
Rosa Parks and Jane Addams
d)
Rosa Parks and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
5.
"Eight hours for work, Eight hours for rest, Eight hours for what we will"
In singing this song, what were union members asking for?
a)
Safer factories
b)
Higher wages
c)
Fewer work holidays
d)
Shorter workdays
6.
Which event in American history is represented in this postage stamp?
a)
Women's fashion of the 1920's
b)
Changing the postal system's stamp purchasing procedure
c)
Ratification of the 18th Amendment
d)
Ratification of the 19th Amendment
7.
The purpose of the 18th Amendment was to--
a)
prevent child labor
b)

stop alcohol transportation, sale and manufacturing

c)
grant women suffrage
d)
raise factory wages
8.

Which statement best describes the role of muckrakers?

a)

They exposed corrupt business and political practices.

b)

They encouraged the growth of railroads.

c)

They increased the power of trusts.

d)

They reported favorably about the lives of the rich.

9.

Why were settlement houses crucial centers of Progressive action?

a)

They provided literary and philosophical perspectives on social questions.

b)

They gave women a reason to teach children how to read the classics.

c)

They showed women’s only concerns were as wives and mothers.

d)

They brought attention to a broader array of urban social problems and civic concerns.

10.

The work of the Muckrakers, the Woman Suffrage, and the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) all demonstrated the

a)

need for more schools

b)

need for social reforms

c)

importance of immigration laws

d)

need for economic reforms

11.

The regulation of Meat Inspections was established because of this man, and his publication of The Jungle. Who was this muckraker?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Booker T. Washington

12.
The three Progressive Era reforms that contributed to increasing the power of the citizens in state and local government where which 3?
a)
recall, iniative, referendum
b)
revenge, recall, referendum
c)
trusts, recall, elect
13.
Who was a trust buster that wanted to regulate big businessess?  
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
W.E.B. Du Bois
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)

William Taft

14.
President Theodore Roosevelt left the Republican Party to form the Progressive Parties and his party was called "The Bull Moose Party?
a)
False
b)
True
15.
If you were against the Spoil System which term might be something you would say?
a)
"Giving government jobs to political supporters, will not benefit the citizens of this country."
b)
"Only members of political parties should hold government jobs."
c)
"It isn't right for city bosses to demand payoffs from businesses."
16.

When Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft split the Republican vote, who ended up winning to become the new president in 1912?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

James Howard

17.

Name the man who exposed the terrible tenement houses.

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

18.

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)
Jane Addams
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)

Ida B. Wells

19.
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
20.
This person helped to found the NAACP
a)
Ida B Wells
b)
Booker T Washington
c)
W E B DuBois
d)
Martin Luther King Jr.
21.
Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17th Amendment

 
How did the reforms listed above impact America?
a)
A system of separate schools for new immigrants
b)
They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
c)
More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
d)
They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class
22.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
23.
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
24.

Who has been responsible for bringing to light new issues that the government should address and getting those ideas passed as legislation during the Progressive Era?

a)

Citizens

b)

Major political parties

c)

Political machines

d)

Third parties

25.

Which act protected consumers from false and potentially harmful food and medicines?

a)

Meat Inspection Act

b)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

c)

Pure Food and Drug Act

d)

Interstate Commerce Act

26.

What was the goal of the 17th Amendment?

a)

eliminate some political corruption by directly electing senators

b)

create stronger families by prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol

c)

even out the income gap between the extremely wealthy and extremely poor by creating a federal income tax based on earnings

d)

allow the other half of the population a say in politics by allowing women to vote

27.

Which reform created the need for elected officials to pay more attention to the needs of the voters?

a)

initiative

b)

referendum

c)

direct election of senators

d)

recall

28.

What was the goal of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

a)

to regulate business for the health of the citizens

b)

to break up large monopolies and promote competition by regulating business

c)

to lobby politicians to pass much needed reforms

d)

to create a fairer income structure among the citizens

29.

What led to women having the right to vote?

a)

the ratification of the 18th Amendment

b)

the ratification of the 16th Amendment

c)

the ratification of the 19th Amendment

d)

the ratification of the 17th Amendment

30.

Who was responsible for exposing the practice of lynching in the South?

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton an Susan B. Anthony

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Jane Addams

31.

What can result by third parties running in an election?

a)

there are no results because third parties have not yet won a federal election

b)

third parties create chaos and nothing gets done

c)

create confusion because the people will not know who to vote for

d)

it can split the vote of one political party causing the other party to win the election

32.

Direct democracy where citizens have more voice in their government was the goal of what?

a)

political reforms

b)

economic reforms

c)

social reforms

d)

health reforms

33.

Which part of Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal created the National Park Service?

a)

Arbor Day

b)

Controlling corporations

c)

Protecting consumers

d)

Conservation

34.

Which political reform allows the citizens to select the candidates who run for office?

a)

direct democracy

b)

direct primary

c)

direct selection

d)

direct election

35.

Which political party was responsible for the creation and passage of the 16th and 17th Amendments?

a)

Bull Moose

b)

Republicans

c)

Democrats

d)

Populists

36.

What was the temperance movement?

a)

movement to reduce or eliminate the consumption of alcohol

b)

movement to more directly participate in the government

c)

movement to promote women's right to vote

d)

movement to expose the problems of society

37.

What did muckrakers do?

a)

exposed the corruption with the political system

b)

exposed the problems with unfair taxation

c)

exposed the problems of society

d)

exposed the problems with immigration

38.

What act was responsible for decreasing the power of the railroads by government intervention?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

c)

Dawes Act

d)

Interstate Commerce Act

39.

Who wrote a book that exposed the corrupt business practices of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil?

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Carrie Nations

d)

Jane Addams

40.

What were created in reaction to poor working conditions, low wages, and long hours?

a)

muckrakers

b)

political machines

c)

labor unions

d)

monopolies

41.

What group was most opposed to labor unions?

a)

company owners

b)

political machines

c)

government

d)

immigrants

42.

What publication brought about the governments regulations for the protection of the consumers?

a)

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

b)

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

c)

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

d)

The Red Record by Ida B. Wells

43.

Which reform allowed voters security to vote without fear of intimidation?

a)

referendum

b)

initiative

c)

recall

d)

secret ballot

44.

Which descriptors represent Booker T. Washington? Select all that apply.

a)

created the Tuskegee Institute

b)

former slave

c)

helped form the N.A.A.C.P.

d)

believed vocational training was pathway to civil rights for African Americans

45.

Which descriptors represent W.E.B. DuBois? Select all that apply.

a)

helped form the N.A.A.C.P.

b)

former slave

c)

believed that African Americans should get an education to gain their civil rights immediately

d)

first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard