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WorksheetsPhilips, Logan, Ch. 21
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 24mins
What where Political Machines?
Political Machines where powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office.
Political Machines where powerful organizations that used legal methods to get their candidates elected to public office.
Political Machines where powerful organizations that used illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office.
Progressives were also working to improve society
in the late 1800s.
True
False
What are "muckrakers"?
Journalists who exposed the "filth" of society.
Journalists who didn't expose the "filth" of society.
Journalists who both did and didn't expose the "filth" of society.
What was the Seventeenth Amendment?
The Seventeenth Amendment allowed Americans to
vote directly for U.S. senators.
The Seventeenth Amendment gave the right to citizens of the United States to vote and they shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
The Seventeenth Amendment made it to where the congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
What does it mean to recall?
To remove.
To give.
To destroy.
To create.
Initiative is NOT a procedure that allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition.
True
False
What is a referendum?
Another measure that permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a government body.
Another measure that didn't permit voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a government body.
Who was Robert M. La Follette
A man born in rural Wisconsin, who began his political career at a young age. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1884, becoming the youngest member of Congress. He soon earned the nickname “Fighting Bob” for his energetic speaking style and his active support for progressive reforms. After serving as Wisconsin’s governor and as U.S. senator, La Follette ran for president as the Progressive Party candidate in 1924. He won his home state and received about 16 percent of the popular vote.
A man born in urban Wisconsin, who began his political career at a young age. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1884, becoming the youngest member of Congress. He soon earned the nickname “Fighting Bob” for his energetic speaking style and his active support for progressive reforms. After serving as Wisconsin’s governor and as U.S. senator, La Follette ran for president as the Progressive Party candidate in 1924. He won his home state and received about 16 percent of the popular vote.
What did the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire help accomplish?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and similar accidents led to the passage of laws improving factory safety standards.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and similar accidents led to the passage of laws getting rid of factory safety standards.
What did the Workers’ Compensation Laws achieve?
A law which guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.
A law which didn't guarantee a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.
Capitalism is...
an economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods.
a system in which the government owns and operates a country’s means of production.
none of the above.
Socialism is...
a system in which the government owns and operates a country’s means of production.
an economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods.
none of the above.
Who was William “Big Bill” Haywood?
He was a man who led a union that welcomed immigrants, women, African Americans, and others not welcome in the AFL.
He was a man who was against unions that welcomed immigrants, women, African Americans, and others not welcome in the AFL.
What was the group known as The Industrial Workers of
The World?
A group of socialists and union leaders founded a union that welcomed immigrants, women, African Americans, and others not welcome in the AFL.
A group of socialists and union leaders who opposed the founding of unions that welcomed immigrants, women, African Americans, and others not welcome in the AFL.
The Eighteenth Amendment didn't ban the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages throughout the United States.
True
False
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was an organization that called for economic and educational equality for African Americans.
True
False
Theodore Roosevelt became president when William McKinley was shot and killed.
True
False
The Pure Food and Drug Act. This law prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.
True
False
Conservation is not the protection of nature
and its resources.
True
False
Who was William Howard Taft?
Theodore Roosevelt's secretary of war.
Theodore Roosevelt's vice president.
The Progressive Party. It was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party because Roosevelt said he was “as strong as a bull moose.”
True
False
Woodrow Wilson was a Democratic candidate who didn't win the electoral vote by a wide margin.
True
False
The Sixteenth Amendment allowed the
federal government to impose direct taxes
on citizens’ incomes.
True
False
