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Moore,Paris Ch.21

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

define political machines

a)

They “raked up” and exposed the

muck, or filth, of society.

b)

allowed Americans to

vote directly for U.S. senators.

c)

powerful organizations that used both legal

and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office.

d)

permitted voters to

approve or reject a law that had already been

proposed or passed by a government body.

2.

What is a Progressive?

a)

to recall,

or remove,

b)

allowed Americans to

vote directly for U.S. senators.

c)

working to improve society

in the late 1800s.

d)

allowed

voters to propose a new law by collecting

signatures on a petition.

3.

What is a muckraker

a)

These

journalists were nicknamed muckrakers

because they “raked up” and exposed the

muck, or filth, of society.

b)

A nickname

c)

A person

d)

check all that imply not this one tho...

4.

what did the Seventeenth

Amendment, allow people to do??

a)

permitted voters to

approve or reject a law that had already been

proposed or passed by a government body.

b)

allowed Americans to

vote directly for U.S. senators.

c)

to recall,

or remove, an official before the end of his or

her term.

d)

allowed

voters to propose a new law by collecting

signatures on a petition.

5.

what an initiative do??

a)

a union

b)

guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.

c)

a system in which the government owns and operates a country’s means of production.

d)

allowed

voters to propose a new law by collecting

signatures on a petition.

6.

true or false

A referendum a law that allowed

voters to propose a new law by collecting

signatures on a petition.

a)

true

b)

false

7.

What is The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

a)

socialist union

b)

a system in which the government owns and operates a country’s means of production.

c)

led to the passage of laws improving factory safety standards.

d)

guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.

8.

What did workers’ compensation laws do??

a)

to promote the cause of women’s suffrage

b)

guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.

c)

determines the price of goods

d)

an economic system in

9.

What is socialism??

a)

factory safety standards.

b)

a system in which the government owns and operates a country’s means of production.

c)

an economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods.

d)

a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job

10.

what is William “Big Bill” Haywood,

a)

socialist union

b)

Industrial Workers of the World

c)

IWW

d)

(choose all that apply not this one)

11.

choose the briefest definition. Of capitalism

a)

an economic system

b)

an economic system in which private businesses run most industries

c)

an economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods.

d)

private businesses

12.

What exactly did the Eighteenth Amendment do??

a)

promote the cause of women’s suffrage.

b)

The Right to Vote

c)

Gave women The Right to Vote

d)

banning the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages throughout the United States

13.

What did National American Woman Suffrage Association do??

a)

promoted the cause of women’s suffrage

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

support minimum wage and child labor laws.

14.

What is the Nineteenth Amendment?

a)

allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators

b)

allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition.

c)

granting American women the right to vote.

d)

permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a government body

15.

who is Robert M. La Follette

a)

One of the leaders of the effort to reform state government was Wisconsin’s Republican governor

b)

Fighting Bob

c)

Wisconsin’s governor

d)

a U.S. senator,

16.

define National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

a)

an organization that called for economic and educational equality for African American

b)

improve society in the late 1800s.

c)

exposed the muck, or filth, of society

d)

powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office

17.

Did Theodore Roosevelt take office after William McKinley died?

a)

True

b)

False

18.

the Pure Food and Drug Act is a law

a)

True

b)

False

19.

define conservation

a)

allows the federal government to impose direct taxes on citizens’ incomes.

b)

prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs

c)

the protection of nature and its resources

20.

What is the Progressive Party

a)

It was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party because Roosevelt said he was “as strong as a bull moose.”

b)

prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.

c)

Bull Moose Party

d)

an organization that called for economic and educational equality for African Americans

21.

Who is William Howard Taft??

a)

Theodore Roosevelt's secretary

b)

Democratic candidate

c)

Republican voter

22.

Who is Woodrow Wilson

a)

favored business regulation and opposed socialism.

b)

Democratic candidate won the electoral vote by a wide margin.

23.

What did the Sixteenth Amendment do??

a)

allows the federal government to impose direct taxes on citizens’ incomes.

b)

punished unfair trade practices