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WorksheetsProgressive Era Review
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 24mins
The event that drew the public's attention to the need for more workplace safety reforms was...
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Haymarket Riot
Passage of the 17th Amendment
Trust-Busting
Reform minded journalists who exposed the problems in society
Socialists
Muckrakers
Political Bosses
Communists
The Progressive Reform Movement can be best described as...
political action group focusing on foreign policy
organization of business people who wanted assembly lines
group of people dedicated to improving the lives of people
group of people dedicated to adopting a Communist government
Which was NOT a goal of the Progressives?
Limiting the power of corporate trusts and monopolies
Limiting the power of labor unions
Improving housing for the working class
Making alcohol illegal
Timer period during which everything looked good on the outside, but the inside was bad
Gilded Age
Roaring '20s
Age of Imperialism
Industrialization
Florence Kelley helped establish child labor laws which allowed children to ______.
Work only 10 hours a day
Be paid below the minimum wage
Work only in factories
Go to school
Which was NOT a reason for the formation of labor unions?
to strike against poor conditions
Yellow dog contracts
Earn higher wages
For collective bargaining
Which of the following inspired many Americans to work for Progressive reforms?
Theories of Social Darwinism
Religious Revivals of the Second Great Awakening
Teachings of the Social Gospel movement
Speeches of famed educator George Washington Carver
Which happened as a result of child labor laws?
Kids who lost their jobs protested the laws
Number of kids living on the streets increased sharply
Many mothers quit work to take care of their kids
Number of kids in schools increases dramatically
Which reform gave voters more power to choose candidates for public office?
Direct Primary
Political Convention
Recall Elections
Secret Ballot
Which progressive reform allows citizens to propose/pass a low without involving state government?
Initiative
Recall Election
Referendum
Secret Ballot
Which of the following progressive reforms was enacted by a constitutional amendment?
Consumer Protection
Women's suffrage
Regulation of monopolies
Conservation of environment
How did Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson work to protect the environment?
By setting aside land for national parks
By creating a federal agency to monitor pollution
By requiring factories to clean up toxic wastes
by protecting wilderness lands from ANY development
Who was all about giving the people and businesses a SQUARE DEAL (treat everybody fairly)?
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
Why did Wilson establish the Federal Reserve System?
To help the federal government keep the budget balanced
To give trusts more opportunities to expand business
to create banks to collect the new federal income tax
to regulate the money supply and prevent future economic panics
Which of the following was a risk to factory workers?
Sharp blades in meat packing factories
Cotton dust in textile factories
Fire hazards in close quarters
All of these
Movement to limit or ban the consumption of alcohol
Populist Movement
Temperance Movement
Moderation Movement
Patronage Movement
Rural movement that focused on rights for farmers and the working class
Social Gospel
Activism
Populism
Social Darwinism
Why did the Supreme Court rule that states could limit women's working hours?
try to appease them so they wouldn't ask for suffrage
They believed women were weak and needed to be protected
it was fair since they had a similar law for men
healthy mothers would create more efficient child workers
What was the focus of the NAACP?
Going through the courts to end segregation
Ensuring African American men had voting rights
Protesting lynching and racist violence
All of these
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Guaranteed the right to bear arms
Freedom of speech
Gave women voting rights
Freed the slaves
What did the 14th Amendment do?
Guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law
Created an income tax
Gave African American men the right to vote
Made it illegal to sell or drink alcohol
Amendment that created a national income tax
16th
17th
18th
19th
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
16th
17th
18th
19th
Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
13th
14th
15th
16th
Amendment that allowed the direct election of senators
17th
18th
19th
20th
Amendment that made it illegal to make, sell, or transport alcohol
14th
18th
19th
20th
Journalist who took photos of the poor in New York City and documented their living conditions.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ida B. Wells
Jacob Riis
Samuel Gompers
Founder of the American Federation of Labor
Terence Powderly
Eugene V. Debs
Booker T. Washington
Samuel Gompers
Co-founder of the NAACP; Protesting lynching and wrote about it in her newspaper
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. DuBois
Mother Jones
Novelist who wrote about the problems in meat packing factories in the book, THE JUNGLE, that led to new inspection laws
Upton Sinclair
Teddy Roosevelt
Jacob Riis
Karl Marx
Socialist co-founder of the I.W.W.; unsuccessfully ran for president in 1912
Eugene V. Debs
Booker T. Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Samuel Gompers
Document signed by employees that prohibited them from joining unions
Black List
Yellow Dog Contract
Clayton Antitrust Act
Grey Wolf Contract
Political party that Teddy Roosevelt was candidate for in 1912; also know as the Progressive Party
Bull Moose Party
Socialist Party
Communist Party
Birthday Party
Made it so people could no longer put cocaine and opium into patent medicines
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Labeling Act
15th Amendment
Owner of Northern Securities, a holding company that owned railroads that was broken up by Teddy Roosevelt
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Jay Z
Extended the power of the Sherman Act; protected labor unions from antitrust regulation
Clayton Antitrust Act
Nelson Antitrust Act
Simpson Antitrust Act
21st Amendment
Allowed people to vote without feeling pressured to by a political boss
Secret ballot
Reform
Direct Primary
Referendum
Woodrow Wilson won the Election of 1912 because...
He promised to keep the U.S. out of war
He was a famous war hero
The Republican vote was split between Taft and Roosevelt
Big Business liked him
True or False: W.E.B. DuBois thought that black people should use the courts to fight for more political rights
True
False
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
W.E.B. DuBois
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
Malcolm X
Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Taft?
He made progressives mad when he raised tariffs
He only had one term as President
He tried to break up all trusts, even if they were good
He was assassinated and his Vice President, Roosevelt took over after him
Which is NOT TRUE of the big strikes like the Railroad Strike and the Pullman Strike?
The military often came in to end it
There was often violence
They showed that the government was in support of unions
The public was afraid of unions, radical ideas, and how crazy the strikes and riots got
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?
Carrie Nation
Frances E. Willard
Billy Sunday
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
Who was a muckraker who checked herself into an mental institution to see how badly the patients were treated?
Ida B Wells
Ida Tarbell
Nellie Bly
Susan B. Anthony
The Seneca Falls Convention was a meeting to discuss...
Monopolies
Voting rights for African Americans
Women's Rights
Nature conservation
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that a state could...
abolish segregation
prohibit a poll tax
require separate but equal facilities based on race
deprive African Americans of their right to vote if they could not read
