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Progressive Era

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name

Class

Date

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

Ida Tarbell

Lewis Hines

Jacob Riis

Upton Sinclair

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

Elixabeth Cady Stanton

Jane Addams

Susan B. Anthony

Belle Starr

This person helped to found the NAACP

Ida B Wells

Booker T Washington

W E B DuBois

Martin Luther King Jr.

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17^th Amendment

How did the reforms listed above impact America?

A system of separate schools for new immigrants

They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government

More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.

They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

17th Amendment

18th Amendment

19th Amendment

21st Amendment

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act)

Upton Sinclair

Lincoln Steffens

Jacob Riis

Frank Norris

17th Amendment-

Banned sale, distribution and manufacture of alcohol

required direct election of US Senators

established the Income Tax

Gave women suffrage rights

Between 1848 and 1920, suffragists protested for women to have the right to vote.

Which amendment guaranteed women this right in the United States?

16th

17th

18th

19th

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

muckrakers

suffragists

immigrants

abolitionists

10.

____________?____________

A period of time when social, economic and political problems caused by rapid industrialization were exposed and in some cases reformed.

What is the most likely title for this?

Industrialization

Progressive Era

Reconstruction

Prohibition

11.

The purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to

break up monopolies

give equal rights to women

help people living in poverty

end racism

12.

The idea that the government will tax at different rates based on how much money you make.

Tax Invasion

Salary Tax

Sales Tax

Graduated Income Tax

13.

What was an important effect of the influx of people from the country to the cities in the late nineteenth century?

a sharp increase in college enrollment

crowded slums and unsanitary conditions

decline in economic growth

a large amount of unused farmland

14.

This organization helps fight to end discrimination against different races

NSA

WCTU

NAACP

RESPECT

15.

The primary role of the Federal Reserve Bank is to steer the economy by

controlling the budget

setting spending levels.

controlling the money supply.

loaning out money.

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Progressive Era

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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