WorksheetsUnit 3 Test Review- Progressive Era
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, influenced federal legislation on
railroad regulation.
meat inspection and food and drug purity.
conservation of natural resources.
ending child labor.
Florence Kelley worked for all of the following workplace reforms EXCEPT
creation of a strike fund
ending child labor
prohibition
minimum wage
W.E.B. du Bois started the Niagara Movement, which would later become what organization?
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Hull House
Journalists who exposed the problems within society were known as
yellow journalists
Populists
Progressives
muckrakers
Which amendment established the right to vote for women?
16th
17th
18th
19th
Which of the following aspects of Progressive Era legislation did not address social reform?
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
the enactment of fire safety policies
Which of the following matches the muckraker with their correct work?
Lincoln Steffens- The Shame of the Cities
Upton Sinclair- The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Ida Tarbell- How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis- The History of Standard Oil
The belief that Christianity should be the basis of social reform is known as
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel
the temperance movement
Prohibition
Margaret Sanger opened the first
settlement house.
school for immigrants.
birth control clinic.
school for the deaf.
The intended purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was to
reduce the role of the courts in labor disputes.
declare unions illegal.
introduce civil service reform.
restrict the growth of monopolies.
In the last half of the 1800s, which development led to the other three?
expansion of the middle class
growth of industrialization
formation of trusts
creation of labor unions
The cartoon represents the point of view of which of the following reform movements?
child labor
abolition
women's rights
temperance
“Crouched over the coal chutes, the boys sit hour after hour, picking out the pieces of slate… I once… tried to do the work a 12 year old boy was doing day after day, for ten hours at a stretch, for sixty cents a day. The gloom appalled me…”- John Spargo, The Bitter Cry of the Children (1906)
Situations like the one described most often existed where in the US?
Northeast
South
Southwest
Midwest
“Fifty years ago, there was a cry against slavery and men gave up their lives to stop the selling of black children on the block. Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturer. Fifty years ago the black babies were sold (for cash). Today the white baby is sold on the installment plan. - Mother Jones 1903
In this passage, the author is protesting
use of child labor in industry.
exploitation of African American children in urban areas.
sale of children into slavery.
the ability of children to use credit in company stores.
“Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade… is… illegal.”
The law from which this quotation was taken was passed to enable the federal government to control
tariff rates.
monopolistic business organizations.
large-city political machines.
farm unions.
Use the following statements to answer the question below.
- Speaker A: “The business of America is business, and we would be wise to remember that.”
- Speaker B: “Government ownership of business is superior to private enterprise.”
- Speaker C: “Strict government regulation of business practices is a means to insure the public good.”
- Speaker D: “Only through personal effort can wealth and success be achieved.”
Which speaker would most likely have supported the ideas of the Progressive movement?
Speaker A
Speaker B
Speaker C
Speaker D
Why was the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 passed?
an exam was needed to separate immigrant workers from citizen workers
soldiers needed jobs following the Civil War
the railroads were taking advantage of western farmers by charging them high prices
government jobs were being given based on political support, not merit
Select all of the goals of the Populist Party.
ending government corruption
government ownership of railroads
bi-metallism
adoption of the gold standard
Select all of the statements that would apply to a 'Silverite'.
favored the gold standard over bi-metallism.
wanted to see the value of money decrease.
individuals were generally farmers and laborers.
wanted to see prices fall.
favored inflation.
“You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. I tell you that the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”
William Jennings Bryan “Cross of Gold” Speech, 1896
Which of the following groups would MOST LIKELY have supported the sentiments expressed in the passage?
eastern industrialists
farmers of the Great Plains
owners of American banks
members of trade unions
