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WorksheetsThe Progressive Era: Recap
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 10mins
What event led Americans to question the whole economic system?
The destruction of the USS Maine
The Panic of 1893
The Tulsa race massacre
The Red Scare
Upton Sinclaire wrote about...
The Standard Oil Company
The meatpacking scandal
The treason of the Senate
The shame of the cities
What were the main goals of Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal"
Capital consolidation
Control of corporations
Consumer protection
Conservation
Eugene Debs founded the...
Communist Party
Bull Moose Party
Whig Party
Socialist Party
What were the progressive journalists who exposed political corruption, social injustice and poor working conditions called?
(a)
What were the four main goals of Progressive reformers?
Protect social welfare, promote moral development, secure economic reform, foster efficiency
Promote corporate interests, prevent environmental disasters, expand social justice, increase infrastructure spending
Build a wall, make America great again, lock her up, punish China
Abolish capitalism, execute the wealthy, establish common ownership of the means of production, expand the vote
The Federal Trade Commission was established to stop companies from...
False advertising
Bribery
Stealing other company's products
Mis-labeling products
What was trust-busting?
Breaking up labor unions that had too much power
The opposite of trust-building
Vacuuming up trust mites
Breaking up big companies that had too much power
Sprinklers, longer ladders, and unlocked doors would have saved the victims of what tragic industrial accident?
Tunguska event
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Panic of 1893
How did moral reformers want to improve society?
Prohibiting alcohol
Banning dancing
Eliminating music
Mandating church attendance
What IS the "crime of poverty?"
That our tax money tries to alleviate it: that's so unfair.
That it happens to good people: it would be okay if it happened to bad people.
That it is entirely unnecessary: it could be fixed!
That there will always be poor people: it's just a tragedy.
What's the guiding idea of socialism?
That religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature.
That we should all spend more time socializing.
That the government should own all businesses.
That the workers should control the means of production
Teddy Roosevelt passed the...
Meat Inspection Act
Intolerable Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Women won the right to vote during the Progressive Era.
True
False
Congress instituted the first federal income tax during the Progressive Era.
True
False
Black Americans benefitted significantly from the Progressive Era reforms.
True
False
The Federal Reserve Act established a...
Public reserve fund to provide for families in need
Privately-owned, decentralized banking system
National system of resource conservation
Publicly-owned, central bank
