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Progressive Era

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

a)

Grover Cleveland

b)

Benjamin Harrison

c)

William McKinley

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

2.

a)

They often worked fewer hours than adults.

b)

They often worked for higher wages than adults.

c)

They often worked in unsafe conditions.

d)

They often worked while protected by safety equipment.

3.

a)

It led to more people attending college to learn the skills needed to work on the assembly line.

b)

It caused a shortage of goods since factories could not produce them as quickly.

c)

It made it faster, cheaper, and easier to mass produce goods.

d)

It caused the price of goods to go up since it was expensive to manufacture them this way.

4.

a)

the right to own land

b)

the right to protest

c)

the right to trial

d)

the right to vote

5.

a)

to encourage people to donate to charity

b)

to expose working conditions of child laborers

c)

to promote the hiring of children in factories

d)

to advertise the glass factory where this boy worked

6.

a)

Most progressives pushed for new laws to protect workers.

b)

Most progressives supported local labor unions and strikes.

c)

Most progressives pushed for an end to immigration.

d)

Most progressives tried to block immigrants from politics.

7.

a)

to use labor unions to improve working conditions

b)

to pass laws that protected large businesses

c)

to use political parties to improve the economy

d)

to bring attention to social problems

8.

a)

automobile

b)

electric

c)

steel

d)

textile

9.

a)

to support the formation of labor unions

b)

to improve conditions for working class people

c)

to promote industry and the creation of monopolies

d)

to end segregation in southern states

10.

a)

It increased voting rights.

b)

It decreased voting rights.

c)

It prevented the government from funding female schools.

d)

It forced the government to hire women.

11.

What does it mean to "ban all alcoholic beverages"?

a)

Progressivism

b)

Prohibition

c)

Suffrage

12.

Which of these things do not explain the problems addressed by reformers?

a)

–exposing unsafe factory conditions

b)

–questioning the dominant role of big business

c)

–struggling to make government more responsive to the people

d)

-they wanted more hours

13.

Which one of the four goals of progressivism includes the YMCA and Salvation Army?

a)

Protecting social welfare

b)

Promoting moral improvement

c)

Creating economic reform

d)

Fostering efficiency

14.

Which one of the four goals of Progressivism includes prohibition?

a)

Protecting social welfare

b)

Promoting moral improvement

c)

Creating economic reform

d)

Fostering efficiency

15.

Henry Ford's name is related to which goal of progressivism?

a)

Creating economic reform

b)

protecting social welfare

c)

Fostering efficiency

d)

promoting moral improvement

16.

The gap between big businesses and the working citizen's pay relates to what goal?

a)

Promoting moral improvement

b)

Fostering efficiency

c)

Protecting socail welfare

d)

Creating economic welfare