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WorksheetsThe Progressive Era
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 28mins
This was the name given to the reform-minded journalists who investigate and publish truthful reports to perform an auditing or watchdog function.
muckraker
temprest
abolitionist
crusader
This was a progressive reform in government that enabled voters to remove an elected official from office before his or her term expired.
recall
initiative
referendum
ballot
This was Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic program that aimed at controlling corporations, providing consumer protection, and conserving natural resources.
Great Society
Square Deal
New Deal
New Freedom
The book, written by Upton Sinclair, that described in noxious detail the filth, disease, and putrefaction in Chicago’s damp, ill-ventilated slaughterhouses was,
The Jungle
How The Other Half Lives
Pilgrim’s Promise
The Vanguard
Theodore Roosevelt, at the end of his second term in office, handpicked this man to be his successor.
Henry Cabot Lodge
William Jennings Bryan
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
This was the name of William Howard Taft’s foreign policy strategy which called for American investors (bankers and businesses) to guarantee money and loans to foreign countries (especially in Latin America, the Caribbean, and East Asia) as a way of boosting American political interests around the world.
Big Stick Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy
Moralistic Diplomacy
Square Deal
In the 1912 presidential campaign, Theodore Roosevelt’s National Progressive Party, was more commonly referred to by this name.
Bull Moose Party
Green Party
Libertarian Party
The War Hawks Party
This was the name of the progressive reforms promised by Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 presidential campaign. Wilson’s reforms focused on three areas: tariff reform, business reform, and banking reform.
Great Society
New Freedom
New Deal
Square Deal
In the election of 1912 Democrat Woodrow Wilson emerged victorious capturing 435 electoral votes, while winning only 42% of the popular vote. How do historians explain Wilson’s victory in 1912 (why did he win)?
Republican party split the votes between Taft and Roosevelt
South voted overwhelmingly for a native-son (Woodrow Wilson)
Majority of the nation had turned away from the foreign policy initiatives of the Republican party (nation building and overseas expansion)
Majority of the nation despised both Taft and Roosevelt due to their name-calling during the campaign
This was the name of Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy strategy first proposed during the presidential election of 1912. It called for giving support to only those countries whose moral beliefs were similar to that of the United States.
Dollar Diplomacy
Square Deal
Moralistic Diplomacy
Big Stick Diplomacy
The progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals EXCEPT
protecting social welfare
promoting business monopolies
creating economic reform
fostering efficiency in the workplace
A major goal of reformers during the Progressive Era was to,
end segregation in the South
correct the abuses of big business
limit immigration from Latin America
enact high tariffs to help domestic industry grow
This woman was an advocate for improving the lives of women and children and, in 1893, helped pass the Illinois Factory Act.
Dorothea Dix
Emma Willard
Florence Kelley
Kaitlin O'Connor
Jane Addams, and others, created these within cities in order to help immigrants and the poor receive basic health and educational needs.
Abolitionist Societies
Settlement Houses
Gospel Unions
Jim Crow Laws
In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis described the living conditions of,
workers in urban slums
African Americans in the segregated South
the rich in their mansions
Native American Indians on reservations
Frances E. Willard founded this organization which spearheaded the prohibition crusade in the early 1900s, quickly becoming the largest women’s group in the nation’s history.
Anti-Saloon League
Temperance and Prohibition Society
Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
This man founded the Socialist Party in the United States in 1901.
Philip Randolph
Eugene Debs
Eugene Dennis
William Z. Foster
This man began using time and motion studies to improve industry efficiency as his strategy of breaking manufacturing tasks into simpler parts soon became a management fad known as,
“Fordism”
“Grahamism”
“Hawthronism”
“Taylorism”
This was the progressive political reform that saw a bill (proposed law) originating with the people instead of with a state legislature.
ballot
initiative
recall
referendum
This amendment, ratified in 1913, was a result of the progressive movement of the early 1900s as it established the direct election of U.S. senators.
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
One of the progressive crusades of the early 1900s was the fight to end child labor. This law, passed in 1916, was one such attempt as it prohibited the transportation of goods produced with child labor across state lines.
Fair Labor Act
Keating-Owen Act
Labor Standards Act
National Child Labor Act
In 1911 a fire broke out in this New York City factory resulting in the deaths of 146 workers (many were women and children). In the aftermath of the fire the New York legislature passed much stronger laws regulating hours and factory conditions.
Binghamton Factory
McKee Factory
Parker Building
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
This was the first test of Theodore Roosevelt’s new domestic program aimed at controlling corporations. Roosevelt was successful as the striking workers received a reduced workday and a 10% pay increase.
Coal Miners Strike of 1902
Diamond Workers Strike of 1902
U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1902
Utah Coal Strike of 1902
Theodore Roosevelt urged Congress to pass this act which said that meat shipped over state lines were subject to federal inspection from corral to can.
Chicago Meat Inspection Act of 1906
Consumer Safety Inspection Act of 1906
Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906
Homestead Meat Act of 1906
Theodore Roosevelt urged Congress to pass this act which prevented the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals.
Agriculture and Drug Act of 1906
Consumer Packaging and Labeling Act of 1906
Food and Drug Inspection Act of 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Which statement best summarizes President Theodore Roosevelt’s views about conservation?
Environmental issues are best decided by the private sector
Unlimited access to natural resources is the key to business growth
Wilderness areas and their resources should be protected for the public good
Decisions about the use of natural resources should be left to the states
American’s saw the disappearance of the frontier has tragic and dangerous. Many Americans in the early 1900s felt that the frontier was the source of these national characteristics.
Capitalism and Prosperity
Individualism and Democracy
Invention and Individualism
Prosperity and Entrepreneurship
After the 1904 election Theodore Roosevelt made this strategic blunder when he announced that he would,
not run for a 3rd term
officially turn the Panama Canal over to the Panama government effective immediately
recognize the communist Soviet Union
take the nation off the gold standard
The cartoon illustrates President Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to
ignore antitrust laws
conserve natural resources
limit the power of monopolies
eliminate foreign ownership of United States corporations
William Howard Taft was a trusted administrator under Theodore Roosevelt, however, when compared to Roosevelt Taft,
lacked Roosevelt’s energy and personality
was a stronger leader than Roosevelt
was more sympathetic towards trusts
was too aggressive towards Congress and failed to win support for his legislation
Trying to honor his campaign promise Taft signed this bill which had the original aim of reducing tariffs. However, after a number of senators tacked on hundreds of upward tariff revisions the final bill did little to reduce U.S. tariffs and did more to outrage progressives.
Johnson-Anderson Bill
Payne-Aldrich Bill
Taft-Douglas Bill
Wilmot-Wilson Bill
The 1910 Ballinger-Pinchot quarrel erupted because,
Ballinger opened public lands in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska to corporate development
Ballinger supported - and voted for - the Taft-Douglas Tariff Bill of 1911
Taft fired Pinchot for insubordination when he spoke out against Taft’s conservation policies
Taft learned that Pinchot was secretly taking conservation orders from Roosevelt
After returning from his Africa expedition Theodore Roosevelt quickly began speaking out against Taft’s policies. In Osawatomie, Kansas Roosevelt proclaimed his new progressive doctrine known as the,
Fair Deal
New Deal
New Freedom
New Nationalism
In early 1911 the National Progressive Republican League was formed and this man quickly became the leading progressive candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
Henry Cabot Lodge
John M. Parker
Robert M. La Follette
Theodore Roosevelt
In February 1912, Theodore Roosevelt transformed the race for the presidency when he declared that he would be a candidate for the presidency because,
his first term didn’t count as an actual term since he arrived at the presidency after the assassination of William McKinley
the dawn of a new century meant that the nation must look towards the future and make new presidential traditions
the nation’s domestic and foreign policies were in serious need of help and he felt that only he could ‘save’ the nation
the three term tradition applied only to three consecutive terms
Woodrow Wilson began his professional life as a brilliant academic lecturer, president of Princeton University, and governor of,
Delaware
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Theodore Roosevelt’s National Progressive Party had in its party platform the direct election of senators, woman suffrage, and,
a federal law against child labor
adoption in all states of the initiative, referendum, and recall
an eight hour work day
minimum wage for women
All of those listed
On October 14, 1912, the presidential campaign of 1912 came to a screeching halt when an assassination attempt was made against,
Eugene Debs
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Once his time in office came to an end William Howard Taft taught law for eight years at Yale University and eventually served as,
Ambassador to Great Britain
Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
President of Harvard University
While Woodrow Wilson won the electoral college (and the presidency) in 1912, it is said that the real ‘winner’ of the election was,
Germany as Wilson’s policies would allow Germany to build up its armed forces in preparation for World War I
the Progressive movement and their policies
the South as Wilson ushered in new policies that focused on diminishing the rights African Americans
Theodore Roosevelt as he prevented Taft from getting a second term
Woodrow Wilson was greatly influenced by his Southern ancestry. Some historians say that Wilson sympathized with the Confederacy’s attempt to win its independence and this in turn influenced Wilson’s support of,
Native American tribes and their attempts to acquire self-government
Germany – during World War I – and their attempt at national unity
the racial superiority of the white race
self-determination for the peoples of other nations
Woodrow Wilson referred to the tariff, the banks, and the trusts as the,
Bureaucracy of Inefficiency
Syndicate of Corruption
Tripartite Pact
Triple Wall of Privilege
This amendment was adopted in February of 1913. It allowed the U.S. Congress to levy an income tax on American citizens as a way to generate revenue for the federal budget.
15th amendment
16th amendment
17th amendment
18th amendment
This was the most important piece of economic legislation between the Civil War and the New Deal. It created a board of advisors whose job it was to oversee a nationwide system of twelve regional reserve districts, issue paper money, and increase the amount of money in circulation as needed.
Emergency Banking Act of 1914
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Glass-Steagall Act of 1913
The Banking Act of 1914
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 empowered a presidentially appointed commission to turn a searchlight on industries engaged in interstate commerce. The commissioners were expected to,
crush monopolies
protect the health of consumers
regulate American trade with nations around the world
regulate the meatpacking industry
Woodrow Wilson enacted a number of progressive reforms, however, his progressivism had its limits as he – most historically significant for the time period – stopped short of supporting laws that provided for better treatment of,
African Americans
children
Native Americans
women
Woodrow Wilson hated,
Theodore Roosevelt’s “big stick-ism” [a]
William Howard Taft’s “dollar diplomacy” [b]
Wall Street bankers as he was extremely suspicious of their motives [c]
Both a and c
All of those listed
This man emerged as the chief rival to Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Wilson reluctantly supported Carranza, especially after this man killed 16 American engineers traveling through northern Mexico.
Emiliano Zapata
Eulalio Gutiérrez
Francisco Madero
Pancho Villa
After a series of revolutions and disorders erupted in Latin America, in 1914-1915 Woodrow Wilson dispatched U.S. marines to this island in order to protect American lives and property.
Cuba
Haiti
Nevis
Puerto Rico
By January 1917, the focus on Mexico began to diminish as the threat of war with this European nation began to capture the attention of millions of Americans.
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
In the mid-1800s, the majority of women who held jobs worked as,
servants.
teachers.
clerks.
telephone operators.
In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed
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 of the following did NOT stimulate U.S. imperialism?
need for a new source of cheap labor
thirst for new economic markets
desire for military strength
a belief in the cultural superiority of the Anglo-Saxon culture
The rapid growth of industry in the United States helped fuel imperialism because
America needed unspoiled places for its workers to vacation.
Americans had more time to read about foreign places.
the United States was producing too many goods for its own people to buy.
Americans wanted to take over foreign factories and learn their secrets.
What does the cartoon imply about the Open Door Policy?
It favored American interests over other foreign interests in China.
It treated all foreign interests in China fairly.
It weakened American influence in China.
It mainly benefited America's competitors.
