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Progressive Era Unit 6 Study Guide

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the 18th amendment do?

a)

Make liquor illegal to transport, produce, or sell

b)

Allow the government to tax people

c)

Allows women to vote

d)

Let people directly vote for their senators

2.

What does the 19th amendment allow?

a)

Government to tax people

b)

Women to vote

c)

People directly vote for their senators

3.

What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?

a)

Women were fighting for their rights.

b)

A third party formed by Teddy Rosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination for the Republican Party

c)

This allows people to refer to acts of Legislature before becoming a law

d)

In 1906 prohibited selling misbranded or adulterated drugs or food. Established the Food and Drug Administration

4.

Which amendment allows the government to tax people?

a)

17th amendment

b)

19th amendment

c)

16th amendment

d)

18th amendment

5.

Who formed the Bull Moose Party?

a)

Taft

b)

Roosevelt

c)

Wilson

d)

Carrie Nation

6.

When was the progressive era?

a)

1830 - 1921

b)

1924 - 1943

c)

1896 - 1916

d)

1798 - 1824

7.

What is a power reserved to voters that allows by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official?

a)

Suffrage

b)

Recall

c)

Conservation

d)

Prohibition

8.

Which amendment lets people directly vote for their senators?

a)

17th amendment

b)

16th amendment

c)

19th amendment

d)

18th amendment

9.

Which has to do with women fighting for their rights?

a)

Subjugation

b)

Recall

c)

Suffrage

10.

What is Referendum?

a)

Women were fighting for their rights

b)

The power is reserved for voters to propose legislation, by petition, that would enact, amend or repeal a City Charter or Code provision

c)

Working toward putting an end to using wasteful materials and protecting natural resources

d)

Allows people to refer to acts of Legislature before becoming a law

11.

What was prohibited in the 18th amendment?

a)

Alcohol

b)

Slaves

c)

Voting

d)

The FDA

12.

What is Conservation?

a)

Making alcohol illegal.

b)

Having meat inspected in the places meat is processed.

c)

Putting an end to using wasteful materials to protect wildlife.

13.

Which article was to show the more privileged people how the less privileged lived?

a)

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

b)

How the other half lives

c)

The jungle

14.

What did Taft do?

a)

Adressed progressive goals of democracy, social welfare, and economic reform.

b)

Formed the Bull Moose Party

c)

He became president and he was the leading architect of the League of Nations

15.

Which article led to the Pure Food and Drug Act?

a)

The Jungle

b)

How the Other Half Lives

c)

Progressivism and the New Democracy

16.

What did Wilson do?

a)

"Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs.

b)

Guaranteed rights for women and slaves with her dedication to women’s suffrage and resulted in the 19th amendment.

c)

He became president and he was the leading architect of the League of Nations.

d)

Was a muckraker and attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes.

17.

Who wrote The Jungle?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Jacob Riis

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

18.

What party did Roosevelt start?

a)

Democratic

b)

Republican

c)

Green Party

d)

Bull Moose Party

19.

What organization did Susan B. Anthony help start?

a)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

b)

National Woman Suffrage Association (1869)

c)

Department of Commerce and Labor

20.

What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton do?

a)

Guaranteed rights for women and slaves with her dedication to the women’s suffrage and resulted in the 19th amendment.

b)

Would smash booze bottles and went to extremes to get it banned by taking her bible and hatchet and smashing booze.

c)

Was a muckraker and attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes.

21.

Who would go with her hatchet and bible to smash booze?

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Carrie Nation

22.

What did Jacob Riis do?

a)

He became president and he was the leading architect of the League of Nations.

b)

Was a muckraker and attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes.

c)

Leader of the Pan-Africanism movement

23.

What was Jane Addams the vice president of?

a)

National American Woman Suffrage Association

b)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

c)

Bull Moose Party

d)

Pan-Africanism movement

24.

Why is women's suffrage important?

a)

Investigates business practices, assure fair trade, address labor issues, and aid commerce.

b)

It resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which finally allowed women the right to vote

c)

Without them, slaves would not have the same rights and women would not be able to vote.

25.

Why were the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments important?

a)

Without them slaves would not have the same rights and women would not be able to vote.

b)

It resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which finally allowed women the right to vote