WorksheetsThe Progressive Era
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
What Term originated from a speech given by President Theodore Roosevelt in which he praised journalists for their role in uncovering corruption and problems often hidden from society.
Socialists
Muckrackers
Progressivism
Reformers
Whose book titled "The Jungle" led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
Jacob Riis
Lewis Hines
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
As a result of the public outcry created by The Jungle, the United States government passed the Meat Inspection Act. The new law set cleanliness standards that had to be followed by meat processing facilities. What was the name of the new Federal Agency Developed as a result?
The Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Agriculture
The Food and Drug Administration
The Environmental Protection Agency
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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
He was a New York photojournalist who documented the living conditions of the urban poor. His work, How the Other Half Lives (1890), exposed the unhealthy tenement housing that workers and families were forced to live in
Jacob Riis
Woodrow Wilson
William Sherman
Florence Kelley
Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
Belle Starr
Who played a huge role in improving the lives of the urban poor, especially immigrant women and children who were forced by circumstances to work and live in dangerous and unhealthy conditions?
Jane Addams
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Belle Starr
Susan B. Anthony
What is Women's Suffrage?
equal rights for women in the workforce
Independence for Women
Women's right to vote
The name of a protest lead by women
The initial purpose of Jim Crow laws was to prevent Blacks from participating in the political process, which included voting, serving in office, and participating in jury trials
False
True
True or False: The famous U.S. Supreme court case Plessy v. Ferguson sided with Homer Plessy. They said his 14th Amendment rights were being violated by having to sit in a separate train car.
true
false
Founder of the NAACP (stated goals was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment )
Ida B Wells
Booker T Washington
W E B DuBois
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which amendment established direct election of US senators? ( in turn gave more power to the voters)
10th Amendment
15th Amendment
17th Amendment
12th Amendment
What is a synonym for "conservation?"
conversation
preservation
This man was a preservationist and largely responsible for having Yosemite added as a national park.
Aldo Leopold
John Muir
Gifford Pinchot
Theodore Roosevelt
During his tenure in office, "Teddy" Roosevelt created the National Forest Service, five new national parks, 18 new U.S. national monuments, 51 bird reserves, four game preserves, and 150 national forests.
TRUE
FALSE
