WorksheetsProgressive Era Intro
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What horror of the Gilded Age was exposed by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
Dangers faced by coal miners.
Corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company.
Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
Illegal deals between special interests and the government.
Which was an objective of Roosevelt’s Square Deal?
Fair treatment of people in society.
Using the government’s power to help citizens.
Settling issues for the betterment of society.
All of the above.
Which of the following best states the goal of prohibitionists, or members of the Temperance Movement?
To eliminate the sale of alcohol to children.
To eliminate the use of alcohol in society.
To reduce accidents in the workplace.
To reduce the availability of alcohol to minors.
What did the Meat Inspection Act accomplish?
Banned the use of assembly lines.
Allowed the government to have unlimited power.
Cleaned up food producing factories.
Advocated for minority groups.
Which idea of Theodore Roosevelt’s led to the creation of National Parks (Yosemite, Yellowstone, etc.) ?
Meat Inspection Act
Preservation
Conservation
Intimidation
Which amendment provided suffrage for women in 1920?
16th
17th
18th
19th
Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?
Ida Tarbell
Lewis Hines
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
Jacob Riis
Lewis Hines
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
What was the popular nickname given to writers that "dig up" the problems happening in urban society?
Suffragists
Muckrakers
Students
Chaffinators
Which amendment banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol?
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
21st Amendment
____________?____________
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?
Industrialization
Progressive Era
Reconstruction
Prohibition
These reforms made the government directly accountable to the citizens:
Referendum, recall, initiative, and 17th amendment
19th and 22nd Amendments
Pendleton Act & Homestead Act
16th and 18th Amendments
Which organization helps fight to end discrimination against different races?
NSA
WCTU
NAACP
RESPECT
Which tax plan is based on the premise: the more money made, the more taxed?
Tax Invasion
Salary Tax
Sales Tax
Graduated Income Tax
Which is the founder of the National Women’s Suffrage Association that helped lead congress to vote on woman’s suffrage?
Ida Tarbell
Ida B. Wells
Susan B. Anthony
Francis Willard
Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?
Teddy Roosevelt
Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Luke Skywalker
What third party did Teddy Roosevelt found and run under during the 1912 Presidential Election?
Tea Party
Whig Party
Green Party
Bull-Moose Party
What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?
Texas vs. Johnson
Tinker vs. DesMoines
Brown vs. Board of Education
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?
Keep public facilities cleaner.
Keep African-Americans as second-class citizens.
Keep the races pure.
Keep African-Americans from voting.
Which person accepted social separation and believed racial equality could be achieved through vocational education?
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois
William Lloyd Douglas
