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Progressive Era Intro

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What horror of the Gilded Age was exposed by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

a)

Dangers faced by coal miners.

b)

Corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company.

c)

Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.

d)

Illegal deals between special interests and the government.

2.

Which was an objective of Roosevelt’s Square Deal?

a)

Fair treatment of people in society.

b)

Using the government’s power to help citizens.

c)

Settling issues for the betterment of society.

d)

All of the above.

3.

Which of the following best states the goal of prohibitionists, or members of the Temperance Movement?

a)

To eliminate the sale of alcohol to children.

b)

To eliminate the use of alcohol in society.

c)

To reduce accidents in the workplace.

d)

To reduce the availability of alcohol to minors.

4.

What did the Meat Inspection Act accomplish?

a)

Banned the use of assembly lines.

b)

Allowed the government to have unlimited power.

c)

Cleaned up food producing factories.

d)

Advocated for minority groups.

5.

Which idea of Theodore Roosevelt’s led to the creation of National Parks (Yosemite, Yellowstone, etc.) ?

a)

Meat Inspection Act

b)

Preservation

c)

Conservation

d)

Intimidation

6.

Which amendment provided suffrage for women in 1920?

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

7.

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Lewis Hines

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Upton Sinclair

8.

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Lewis Hines

c)

Ida Tarbell

d)

Upton Sinclair

9.

What was the popular nickname given to writers that "dig up" the problems happening in urban society?

a)

Suffragists

b)

Muckrakers

c)

Students

d)

Chaffinators

10.

Which amendment banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol?

a)

17th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

11.

____________?____________


A period of time when social, economic and political problems caused by rapid industrialization were exposed and reformed.


What is the most likely title for this statement?

a)

Industrialization

b)

Progressive Era

c)

Reconstruction

d)

Prohibition

12.

These reforms made the government directly accountable to the citizens:

a)

Referendum, recall, initiative, and 17th amendment

b)

19th and 22nd Amendments

c)

Pendleton Act & Homestead Act

d)

16th and 18th Amendments

13.

Which organization helps fight to end discrimination against different races?

a)

NSA

b)

WCTU

c)

NAACP

d)

RESPECT

14.

Which tax plan is based on the premise: the more money made, the more taxed?

a)

Tax Invasion

b)

Salary Tax

c)

Sales Tax

d)

Graduated Income Tax

15.

Which is the founder of the National Women’s Suffrage Association that helped lead congress to vote on woman’s suffrage?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Francis Willard

16.

Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Luke Skywalker

17.

What third party did Teddy Roosevelt found and run under during the 1912 Presidential Election?

a)

Tea Party

b)

Whig Party

c)

Green Party

d)

Bull-Moose Party

18.

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

a)

Texas vs. Johnson

b)

Tinker vs. DesMoines

c)

Brown vs. Board of Education

d)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

19.

Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

a)

Keep public facilities cleaner.

b)

Keep African-Americans as second-class citizens.

c)

Keep the races pure.

d)

Keep African-Americans from voting.

20.

Which person accepted social separation and believed racial equality could be achieved through vocational education?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

William Lloyd Douglas