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Progressive Era Review

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The event that drew the public's attention to the need for more workplace safety reforms was...

a)

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

b)

Haymarket Riot

c)

Passage of the 17th Amendment

d)

Trust-Busting

2.

Reform minded journalists who exposed the problems in society

a)

Socialists

b)

Muckrakers

c)

Political Bosses

d)

Communists

3.

The Progressive Reform Movement can be best described as...

a)

political action group focusing on foreign policy

b)

organization of business people who wanted assembly lines

c)

group of people dedicated to improving the lives of people

d)

group of people dedicated to adopting a Communist government

4.

Which was NOT a goal of the Progressives?

a)

Limiting the power of corporate trusts and monopolies

b)

Limiting the power of labor unions

c)

Improving housing for the working class

d)

Making alcohol illegal

5.

Timer period during which everything looked good on the outside, but the inside was bad

a)

Gilded Age

b)

Roaring '20s

c)

Age of Imperialism

d)

Industrialization

6.

Florence Kelley helped establish child labor laws which allowed children to ______.

a)

Work only 10 hours a day

b)

Be paid below the minimum wage

c)

Work only in factories

d)

Go to school

7.

Which was NOT a reason for the formation of labor unions?

a)

to strike against poor conditions

b)

Yellow dog contracts

c)

Earn higher wages

d)

For collective bargaining

8.

Which of the following inspired many Americans to work for Progressive reforms?

a)

Theories of Social Darwinism

b)

Religious Revivals of the Second Great Awakening

c)

Teachings of the Social Gospel movement

d)

Speeches of famed educator George Washington Carver

9.

Which happened as a result of child labor laws?

a)

Kids who lost their jobs protested the laws

b)

Number of kids living on the streets increased sharply

c)

Many mothers quit work to take care of their kids

d)

Number of kids in schools increases dramatically

10.

Which reform gave voters more power to choose candidates for public office?

a)

Direct Primary

b)

Political Convention

c)

Recall Elections

d)

Secret Ballot

11.

Which progressive reform allows citizens to propose/pass a low without involving state government?

a)

Initiative

b)

Recall Election

c)

Referendum

d)

Secret Ballot

12.

Which of the following progressive reforms was enacted by a constitutional amendment?

a)

Consumer Protection

b)

Women's suffrage

c)

Regulation of monopolies

d)

Conservation of environment

13.

How did Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson work to protect the environment?

a)

By setting aside land for national parks

b)

By creating a federal agency to monitor pollution

c)

By requiring factories to clean up toxic wastes

d)

by protecting wilderness lands from ANY development

14.

Who was all about giving the people and businesses a SQUARE DEAL (treat everybody fairly)?

a)

William H. Taft

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Franklin Roosevelt

d)

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

15.

Why did Wilson establish the Federal Reserve System?

a)

To help the federal government keep the budget balanced

b)

To give trusts more opportunities to expand business

c)

to create banks to collect the new federal income tax

d)

to regulate the money supply and prevent future economic panics

16.

Which of the following was a risk to factory workers?

a)

Sharp blades in meat packing factories

b)

Cotton dust in textile factories

c)

Fire hazards in close quarters

d)

All of these

17.

Movement to limit or ban the consumption of alcohol

a)

Populist Movement

b)

Temperance Movement

c)

Moderation Movement

d)

Patronage Movement

18.

Rural movement that focused on rights for farmers and the working class

a)

Social Gospel

b)

Activism

c)

Populism

d)

Social Darwinism

19.

Why did the Supreme Court rule that states could limit women's working hours?

a)

try to appease them so they wouldn't ask for suffrage

b)

They believed women were weak and needed to be protected

c)

it was fair since they had a similar law for men

d)

healthy mothers would create more efficient child workers

20.

What was the focus of the NAACP?

a)

Going through the courts to end segregation

b)

Ensuring African American men had voting rights

c)

Protesting lynching and racist violence

d)

All of these

21.

What did the 13th Amendment do?

a)

Guaranteed the right to bear arms

b)

Freedom of speech

c)

Gave women voting rights

d)

Freed the slaves

22.

What did the 14th Amendment do?

a)

Guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law

b)

Created an income tax

c)

Gave African American men the right to vote

d)

Made it illegal to sell or drink alcohol

23.

Amendment that created a national income tax

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

24.

Amendment that gave women the right to vote

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

25.

Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

26.

Amendment that allowed the direct election of senators

a)

17th

b)

18th

c)

19th

d)

20th

27.

Amendment that made it illegal to make, sell, or transport alcohol

a)

14th

b)

18th

c)

19th

d)

20th

28.

Journalist who took photos of the poor in New York City and documented their living conditions.

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Samuel Gompers

29.

Founder of the American Federation of Labor

a)

Terence Powderly

b)

Eugene V. Debs

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Samuel Gompers

30.

Co-founder of the NAACP; Protesting lynching and wrote about it in her newspaper

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Mother Jones

31.

Novelist who wrote about the problems in meat packing factories in the book, THE JUNGLE, that led to new inspection laws

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Karl Marx

32.

Socialist co-founder of the I.W.W.; unsuccessfully ran for president in 1912

a)

Eugene V. Debs

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Samuel Gompers

33.

Document signed by employees that prohibited them from joining unions

a)

Black List

b)

Yellow Dog Contract

c)

Clayton Antitrust Act

d)

Grey Wolf Contract

34.

Political party that Teddy Roosevelt was candidate for in 1912; also know as the Progressive Party

a)

Bull Moose Party

b)

Socialist Party

c)

Communist Party

d)

Birthday Party

35.

Made it so people could no longer put cocaine and opium into patent medicines

a)

Pure Food and Drug Act

b)

Meat Inspection Act

c)

Labeling Act

d)

15th Amendment

36.

Owner of Northern Securities, a holding company that owned railroads that was broken up by Teddy Roosevelt

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

J.P. Morgan

c)

John D. Rockefeller

d)

Jay Z

37.

Extended the power of the Sherman Act; protected labor unions from antitrust regulation

a)

Clayton Antitrust Act

b)

Nelson Antitrust Act

c)

Simpson Antitrust Act

d)

21st Amendment

38.

Allowed people to vote without feeling pressured to by a political boss

a)

Secret ballot

b)

Reform

c)

Direct Primary

d)

Referendum

39.

Woodrow Wilson won the Election of 1912 because...

a)

He promised to keep the U.S. out of war

b)

He was a famous war hero

c)

The Republican vote was split between Taft and Roosevelt

d)

Big Business liked him

40.

True or False: W.E.B. DuBois thought that black people should use the courts to fight for more political rights

a)

True

b)

False

41.

Who was in charge of the Tuskegee Institute and thought that black people should get an education and a good job to improve their lives

a)

W.E.B. DuBois

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Malcolm X

42.

Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Taft?

a)

He made progressives mad when he raised tariffs

b)

He only had one term as President

c)

He tried to break up all trusts, even if they were good

d)

He was assassinated and his Vice President, Roosevelt took over after him

43.

Which is NOT TRUE of the big strikes like the Railroad Strike and the Pullman Strike?

a)

The military often came in to end it

b)

There was often violence

c)

They showed that the government was in support of unions

d)

The public was afraid of unions, radical ideas, and how crazy the strikes and riots got

44.

Who was a supporter of the Temperance Movement that would go into bars with a hatchet and rocks and smash up the liquor bottles and destroy the bar?

a)

Carrie Nation

b)

Frances E. Willard

c)

Billy Sunday

d)

Alphonse Gabriel Capone

45.

Who was a muckraker who checked herself into an mental institution to see how badly the patients were treated?

a)

Ida B Wells

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Nellie Bly

d)

Susan B. Anthony

46.

The Seneca Falls Convention was a meeting to discuss...

a)

Monopolies

b)

Voting rights for African Americans

c)

Women's Rights

d)

Nature conservation

47.

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that a state could...

a)

abolish segregation

b)

prohibit a poll tax

c)

require separate but equal facilities based on race

d)

deprive African Americans of their right to vote if they could not read