WorksheetsThe Progressive Era part 2
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 22mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to approve or disapprove proposed legislation or a proposed constitutional amendment.
a)
initiative
b)
recall
c)
Big Stick Policy
d)
referendum
2.
An economic policy by president Theodore Roosevelt favored fair relationships between companies and their workers.
a)
square deal
b)
Theodore Roosvelt
c)
Bull Moose
d)
muckrakers
3.
A new law halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling all of their products.
a)
Republican Party Act
b)
Pure Food and Drug Act
c)
Democractic Party Act
d)
Bull Moose Act
4.
A name given to the Progressive Party formed to support Theodore Roosevelt's candidacy for the presidency in 1912.
a)
Assimilation Party
b)
Accutraltion Party
c)
Diffusion Party
d)
Bull Moose Party
5.
A 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave the government the power to control the money supply.
a)
Federal Reserve Act
b)
Gospel Act
c)
Reformation Act
d)
Judication Act
6.
This agency is responsible for regulating a variety of business practices and curb false advertising, misleading pricing, and deceptive packaging and labeling.
a)
settlement commission
b)
Adams Commission
c)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
d)
The Wealth Commission
7.
This tragic act in 1911, in New York City, killed 146 people, mostly women. They died because the doors were locked and the windows were too high for them to get to the ground.
a)
Janet Riis Factory
b)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
c)
Jane Smith Factory
d)
Anthony Factory
8.
This system started by president Theodore Roosevelt that protected public land from any exploitation and development by major companies.
a)
Jane System
b)
support services system
c)
the new system
d)
National Park System
9.
This 1914 law was designed to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; certain activities previously committed by big businesses, such as not allowing unions in factories and not allowing strikes, were declared illegal.
a)
Clayton Antitrust Act
b)
Immigration League Act
c)
Black Pathern Act
d)
Migration Act
10.
This Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax people's income.
a)
17th Amendment
b)
16th Amendment
c)
18th Amendment
d)
19th Amendment
11.
This organization was created in 1909 by president Theodore Roosevelt. The purpose is to achieve a more efficient and responsible management of the nation's natural resources.
a)
Jane Addams Commission
b)
W.E.B. Du Bois
c)
National Conservation Commission
d)
Upton Sinclair Commission
12.
Food process companies now were under the watchful eye of this new law that authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to oversee how the food was being processed and condemn any food found unfit for human consumption.
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Lincoln Steffens
c)
Meat Inspection Act
d)
Upton Sinclair
13.
This nickname was given to president Teddy Roosevelt because of his actions against monopolies, including the breaking up of Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company.
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
trust buster
c)
Frank Norris
d)
Booker T. Washington
14.
When government officials want to remove an elected official from office, they must use this procedure so that citizen can cast their votes for the removal of that official from office before the end of their term.
a)
recall
b)
initiative
c)
referendum
d)
19th Amendment
15.
This new law prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages in the United States of America.
a)
17th Amendment
b)
16th Amendment
c)
18th Amendment
d)
19th Amendment
16.
A 19th-century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it was during the Gilded Age and Progressive ERA. These representations showed the impact of industrialization and social change on people.
a)
Jazzer movement
b)
realism
c)
Melting Pot league
d)
nativitist movement
17.
This women was the brain child of organizing the women's movement for seeking justice, such as, prohibiting any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote based on sex.
a)
Susan B. Anthony
b)
Rebecca Sinclair
c)
Susan Norris
d)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
18.
New York, 1848, women held their first convention to establish their "Declaration of Sentiments" which declared, "all men and women are created equal."
a)
Du Bois Convention
b)
Norris Convention
c)
Convention in Seneca Falls
d)
Lincoln Steffens Convention
19.
This law prohibited the shipment in interstate commerce of products manufactured by children under 14 years old.
a)
Jane Addams Act
b)
Child Labor Act
c)
May West Act
d)
Upton Sinclair Act
20.
This women was instrumental in forming the National Woman Suffrage Association. She was a social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist.
a)
Susan B. Anthony
b)
Elizabeth Washington
c)
Rebecca Sinclair
d)
Susan Norris
21.
This initiative was drafted by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which stated that no one shall be denied the right to vote based on sex. The U.S. Congress ratified (signed into law) on August 18, 1920.
a)
17th Amendment
b)
16th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
18th Amendment
22.
The role of this organization is to help workers get fair wages and better working conditions.
a)
Department of Interior
b)
Department of Labor
c)
Department of Home land Security
d)
Department of Justice
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