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WorksheetsProgressive Era Chapter 11
Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 40mins
He wrote the book The Jungle about the meatpacking industry:
Upton Sinclair
Edward Bellamy
Henry George
Theodore Roosevelt
He wrote the book Looking Backwards:
Upton Sinclair
Edward Bellamy
Henry George
Theodore Roosevelt
He wrote the book Progress and Poverty:
Upton Sinclair
Edward Bellamy
Henry George
Theodore Roosevelt
Florence Kelly was one of the leaders of the National Consumers League (NCL). Her passion was the abolition of:
Women's suffrage
child labor
labor unions
immigration
She was one of the leaders of the National Consumers League (NCL). She pushed for reforms of labor conditions, child labor and women's suffrage:
Jane Addams
Florence Kelly
Mother Jones
Susan B. Anthony
She was the pioneer of social work and is best known for her Hull House project, which was a settlement for immigrants:
Jane Addams
Florence Kelly
Mother Jones
Susan B. Anthony
She lost her family in a yellow fever epidemic. She became a labor leader who worked to create better working conditions for coal miners:
Jane Addams
Florence Kelly
Mother Jones
Susan B. Anthony
They believed government reform and action was needed to improve the lives of Americans not private charity:
Socialists
Progressives
Democrats
Republicans
This term refers to writers who tried to expose wrongdoing by political and business leaders:
Yellow Journalism
Muckrakers
Newsboys
Robber Barons
This writer exposed political corruption in cities:
Lincoln Steffans
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Robert LaFollette
This writer exposed the business practices of Standard Oil:
Lincoln Steffans
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Robert LaFollette
This political system works on the principle of supply and demand. It calls for limited government regulation:
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism
This political system tries to make everyone have a fair opportunity. It calls for high taxes against the wealthy to pay for government regulations:
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism
A fire at this New York factory killed 146 women and children. Most died because the doors were locked and safety standards were not required:
Galvaston
Triangle
Miami River
Dayton
They controlled neighborhoods and controlled corrupt officials:
Political bosses
Police
Media
President
This means National government in Washington D.C.:
Municipal
State
Federal
National
This is a court order to stop or prohibit an action:
injunction
initiative
muckraker
trust
This gives cities the right to have local control of how they enforce a law:
home rule
social welfare
utility
initiative
At the state level, this process allows citizens to propose or change laws:
initiative
referendum
recall
primaries
At the state level, this process allows citizens to vote on a law or get rid of a law:
initiative
referendum
recall
primaries
At the state level, this process allows citizens to remove an elected official:
initiative
referendum
recall
primaries
This allows the voters to choose their candidates for their political party in upcoming elections:
initiative
referendum
recall
primaries
This amendment allows the government to have an income tax:
16th
17th
18th
19th
This amendment allows the for the direct election of U.S. Senators:
16th
17th
18th
19th
This amendment banned all production, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages:
16th
17th
18th
19th
This amendment granted women the right to vote:
16th
17th
18th
19th
The name of Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policies
Open Door
Square Deal
Moral Diplomacy
Return to Normalcy
The plan to develop and plan irrigation projects:
National Reclamation Act
United States Forest Service
National Park Service
Hepburn Act
The plan to manage the country's water and timber resources:
National Reclamation Act
United States Forest Service
National Park Service
Hepburn Act
The plan to manage the country's parks:
National Reclamation Act
United States Forest Service
National Park Service
Hepburn Act
The regulated the railroads and outlawed the practice of rebates:
National Reclamation Act
United States Forest Service
National Park Service
Hepburn Act
This became a new position in the President's cabinet:
Environment
Homeland
Health
Labor
This required labeling and mandated disclosure of all ingredients in any consumable product:
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
This required federal inspections of food processing and sanitary conditions:
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
This created a Federal bank to monitor and supervise private banks. It also regulated money supply:
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
This regulated big business and prohibited monopolies and unfair trade practices:
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Which of these is NOT a term or a practice of a monopoly?
Trust
Holding Company
Competition
Pool
This is a tax on imported goods:
Trust
Tariff
Trade
Horizontal Articulation
Progressives wanted to do this with tariffs:
Raise them
Lower them
Keep them the same
Monopolies wanted to do this with tariffs:
Raise them
Lower them
Keep them the same
This act was supposed to lower tariffs but instead it raised them.
Payne-Aldrich
McKinley
Underwood-Simmons
Sherman Antitrust
This act was lowered the tariff from 40% to 25%.
Payne-Aldrich
McKinley
Underwood-Simmons
Sherman Antitrust
The conflict between two conservationalists that led to the firing of one and made William Howard Taft continue to lose support:
Payne-Aldrich
McKinley-Roosevelt
Ballinger Pinchot
Oldcomer-Newcomer
He succeeded Teddy Roosevelt in 1908 as President:
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Charles Evans Hughes
He won the 1912 election for President:
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Charles Evans Hughes
Teddy Roosevelt ran for President again in 1912. He was this party's candidate:
Republican
Democrat
Socialist
Bull Moose
William Howard Taft ran for re-election as President in 1912. He was this party's candidate:
Republican
Democrat
Socialist
Bull Moose
Woodrow Wilson ran for election as President in 1912. He was this party's candidate:
Republican
Democrat
Socialist
Bull Moose
He won the Presidential election of 1912:
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Eugene V. Debs
This ended the Progressive Era:
The assassination of William McKinley
The Great Depression
World War I
Red Scare
Theodore Roosevelt sided with this industry's workers against big business by mediating a settlement:
Coal
Railroads
Farming
Teaching
To break a law by using non-violent means:
Civil disobedience
Lockout
Lynching
Paramilitary occupation
They tried to get change by lobbying states to grant women the right to vote:
National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Congressional Union (CU)
They used civil disobedience to gain women's suffrage including protesting in front of the White House during World War I:
National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Congressional Union (CU)
Alice Paul led this organization. She used tactics she had learned while she was studying in England.
National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Congressional Union (CU)
Carrie Chapman Catt led this organization. She tried to persuade state leaders and congressional leaders to change laws for women's issues:
National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Congressional Union (CU)
This law limited the use of child labor in factories but did not ban it.
Manns-Elkins Act
Underwood-Simmons Act
Hughes Act
Lochner Act
His Presidential Platform was called New Freedom:
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Eugene V. Debs
His Presidential Platform was called New Nationalism:
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Eugene V. Debs
He led the United Mine Workers in a strike that was settled by President Roosevelt:
John Lewis
George Baer
Charles Evans Hughes
When government uses it's powers to govern itself rather than state or business control:
home rule
petition
referendum
city manager
This act led to labels being required on anything that a person can consume:
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
National Reclamation Act
Hepburn Act
To call a question for a vote is called a:
direct primary
initiative
referendum
recall
Arnold Schwartzenneger became Governor of California by this people's right:
Direct primary
initiative
referendum
recall
By taking out a petition and getting half of the registered voters to sign it, a state is exercising this process:
Direct primary
initiative
referendum
recall
This group was left out of Progressive reforms:
farmers
labor
women
child labor
This organization formed to fight segregation:
NAACP
UAL
UIL
MCAT
Poring over documents, conducting countless interviews, and going undercover.
muckraking
yellow journalism
Media (newspapers) sensationalized stories using imagination rather than facts.
muckraking
yellow journalism
This reformer got the attention of Theodore Roosevelt:
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Edward Bellamy
Lincoln Steffans
This writer exposed John D. Rockefeller and his business practices:
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Edward Bellamy
Lincoln Steffans
This writer attacked political bosses and corrupt businesses and politicians:
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Edward Bellamy
Lincoln Steffans
His portrait hangs in NYPD precincts:
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Eugene V. Debs
This system wants to give everyone a chance to be equal by focusing on high taxes to pay for education, medical care and social services
Capitalism
Socialism
Capitalism
Utilitarianism
This system wants wants to have competition, a free market not regulated by government and incentives to produce goods by private industries:
Capitalism
Socialism
Capitalism
Utilitarianism
Woodrow Wilson's choice of Louis Brandeis for the Supreme Court almost didn't happen because Brandeis was:
Protestant
Catholic
Jewish
Muslim
The event that led to women's suffrage
Red Scare
World War I
Prohibition
Income taxes
The most likely victim of corruption:
Wealthy
Politicians
Police
Poor
Voters in states decide which candidates will stand for election by:
Direct primary
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
The following were Progressives EXCEPT
Hiriam Johnson
Bob LaFollette
Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
