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The Progressive Era

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the purpose of the Muckrakers

a)

Writers who wrote patriotic short stories

b)

Writers who supported big business and corruption in policy

c)

Writers who wanted to make money

d)

Writers who wanted to cause change in their writings

2.

Taft supported the 16th amendment which gave congress the power to

a)

impeach federal officials

b)

declare war

c)

raise tarrifs

d)

tax incomes

3.

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of standard oil

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Jacob Riis

c)

Ida Tarbell

d)

Lewis Hines

4.

The 17th Amendment allowed people to directly elect their

a)

Representatives

b)

Senators

c)

Governors

d)

President

5.

What right do citizens exercise when they use the initative

a)

The Right to introduce legislation

b)

the right to remove elected officials

c)

the right to nominate candidates for an election

d)

the right to vote

6.

Voters were less subject to pressure and intimidation when they could vote this way

a)

secret ballot

b)

initiative

c)

recall

d)

referendum

7.

The Banning of alcohol

a)

Referendum

b)

Principal

c)

Institution

d)

Prohibition

8.

New Immigrants arriving on the East coast gained admission at....

a)

Charleston Island

b)

Ellis Island

c)

Boston Harbor

d)

None of the above

9.

What is a Tariff

a)

A Old Pirate wooden ship

b)

a tax on imported goods

c)

a type of income tax

d)

tax on imported goods

10.

The law that required truthful labels was the

a)

Interstate commerce act

b)

Sherman Antitrust

c)

Meat inspection Act

d)

Pure food and drug act

11.

What type of business did Sherman A try and stop/break up

a)

Monopolies

b)

Joint-Stock Companies

c)

Meat Packaging

d)

Small Buisness

12.

Which President called his progressive program New Freedom

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

Abe Lincoln

d)

Woodrow Wilson

13.

Who Started a civil rights group called the NAACP

a)

Ida Wells

b)

Susan B Anthony

c)

WEB Dubios

d)

Booker T Washington

14.

Another Term For Monopoly is...

a)

Flux

b)

Policy

c)

Trust

d)

Machine

15.

This Person Helped immigrants assimilate by creating settlement houses in Chicago

a)

Ida wells

b)

Jane Adams

c)

Francis Willard

d)

Susan B Anthony

16.

Which Amendment gave women the right to vote

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

17.

Under this president women got the right to vote and american entered WW1

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Abe Lincoln

c)

None of the above

18.

Muckraker who investigated the oil Industry

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

W.E.B DuBios

d)

Jacob Riis

19.

Who wrote the book on the origin of species

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Lincoln

20.

When was progressive era

a)

Antebellum

b)

1865-1877

c)

1933-1945

d)

1900-1920

21.

Which Progressive President used big stick diplomacy and was known as a trust buster?

a)

Abe Lincoln

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Taft

d)

Teddy Roosevelt

22.

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

23.

Whose book led to the direct passage of the meat inspection act and indirect of the Pure food and drug facts

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Lewis Hines

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Jacob Riis

24.

Banned People from making, drinking, or selling alcohol

a)

18th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

25.

Writers that dig up the bod things going on in society

a)

Muckrakers

b)

Students

c)

Chaffinators

d)

Suffragists