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The Progressive Era: Recap

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What event led Americans to question the whole economic system?

a)

The destruction of the USS Maine

b)

The Panic of 1893

c)

The Tulsa race massacre

d)

The Red Scare

2.

Upton Sinclaire wrote about...

a)

The Standard Oil Company

b)

The meatpacking scandal

c)

The treason of the Senate

d)

The shame of the cities

3.

What were the main goals of Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal"

a)

Capital consolidation

b)

Control of corporations

c)

Consumer protection

d)

Conservation

4.

Eugene Debs founded the...

a)

Communist Party

b)

Bull Moose Party

c)

Whig Party

d)

Socialist Party

5.

What were the progressive journalists who exposed political corruption, social injustice and poor working conditions called?

(a)  

6.

What were the four main goals of Progressive reformers?

a)

Protect social welfare, promote moral development, secure economic reform, foster efficiency

b)

Promote corporate interests, prevent environmental disasters, expand social justice, increase infrastructure spending

c)

Build a wall, make America great again, lock her up, punish China

d)

Abolish capitalism, execute the wealthy, establish common ownership of the means of production, expand the vote

7.

The Federal Trade Commission was established to stop companies from...

a)

False advertising

b)

Bribery

c)

Stealing other company's products

d)

Mis-labeling products

8.

What was trust-busting?

a)

Breaking up labor unions that had too much power

b)

The opposite of trust-building

c)

Vacuuming up trust mites

d)

Breaking up big companies that had too much power

9.

Sprinklers, longer ladders, and unlocked doors would have saved the victims of what tragic industrial accident?

a)

Tunguska event

b)

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

c)

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

d)

Panic of 1893

10.

How did moral reformers want to improve society?

a)

Prohibiting alcohol

b)

Banning dancing

c)

Eliminating music

d)

Mandating church attendance

11.

What IS the "crime of poverty?"

a)

That our tax money tries to alleviate it: that's so unfair.

b)

That it happens to good people: it would be okay if it happened to bad people.

c)

That it is entirely unnecessary: it could be fixed!

d)

That there will always be poor people: it's just a tragedy.

12.

What's the guiding idea of socialism?

a)

That religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature.

b)

That we should all spend more time socializing.

c)

That the government should own all businesses.

d)

That the workers should control the means of production

13.

Teddy Roosevelt passed the...

a)

Meat Inspection Act

b)

Intolerable Act

c)

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

d)

Pure Food and Drug Act

14.

Women won the right to vote during the Progressive Era.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Congress instituted the first federal income tax during the Progressive Era.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Black Americans benefitted significantly from the Progressive Era reforms.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

The Federal Reserve Act established a...

a)

Public reserve fund to provide for families in need

b)

Privately-owned, decentralized banking system

c)

National system of resource conservation

d)

Publicly-owned, central bank