WorksheetsThe Progressive Era
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Worksheet time: 3hrs 50mins
The Temperance Movement, Women’s Suffrage Movement, and outlawing child labor were reform movements that took place during this era-
Gilded Age
Imperialism
Progressive Era
Roaring 20's
The ratification of this amendment granted women’s suffrage -
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
The growing political influence of this group led to the ratification of the 18th and 19th Amendments.
Nativists
Women
Men
Activists
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
People like Upton Sinclair were ___________________ because they investigated and exposed abuse and corruption.
Supporters of Political Machines
Nativists
Muckrakers
Industialists
What organization did W.E.B. Dubois establish to help secure legal equality for minorities?
Muckrakers Movement
Black Panthers
NAACP
SNCC
Which agency did the federal government establish to protect consumer’s safety as a response to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
Pure Food and Drug Administration
NAACP
National Park Service
Environmental Protection Agency
What legislation allowed the government to regulate big businesses like railroads and dissolve monopolies?
Pure Food and Drug Act & Chinese Exclusion Act
Civil Rights Act 1964 & Voting Rights Act 1965
Homestead Act & Dawes Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act & Interstate Commerce Act
What amendment did the members of the Temperance movement work to achieve?
16th
17th
18th
19th
What civil service reform legislation led to less corruption in the government because it established a merit-based system for government jobs?
Interstate Commerce Act
Pendleton Act
Teapot Dome Scandel
Pure Food & Drug Act
Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
How did the reforms listed above impact the US?
A system of separate schools for new immigrants
They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class
Which idea of Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal led to the creation of National Parks?
Consumer Protection
Control of Corporations
Conservation
Congressional Representation
What innovation contributed to the rapid industrialization (growth of factories) of the United States?
Railroads
Telephone
Dry farming
Sewing machine
Which figure would support the idea of Social Darwinism?
John Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J.P. Morgan
Which idea summarizes the Gilded Age?
Many Americans moved west to farm
Native Americans were placed on Reservations
The discovery of Gold increased western migration
Industrialists used their wealth to influence politics
Who accepted bribes in return for favors?
Industrialists
Natavists
Political bosses
Immigrants
Teddy Roosevelt was known as a "trust-buster." What does that mean?
He worked to break up small businesses
He worked with big monopolies to make them stronger
He worked to break up large monopolies
He let the companies operate without any government interference
He was handpicked as Roosevelt's successor.
Taft
Wilson
This was the name of Wilson's progressive agenda for the nation:
New Freedom
New Nationalism
New Deal
New Movement
This amendment created an income tax:
16
17
18
20
The New Freedom reformed what Wilson called the triple wall of privileges not include
Tariff
Banks
Trusts
Transportation
_____ is the right to vote.
Suffrage
anti-semitism
dominion
emancipation
Was there a secret voting in 1820?
Yes- they would right there name and put in a lock box.
No- men would vote by saying whom they were voting for.
Which amendment granted citizenship to former slaves and gave voting rights to males at least 21 years of age?
13th amendment
14th amendment
15th amendment
19th amendment
Progressives focused on three areas of reform:
easing the suffering of the urban ponies, improving unfair and dangerous dragon conditions, and reforming government at the national, snake, and local levels.
easing the suffering of the rural poor, improving unfair and dangerous living conditions, and reforming government at the national, state, and international levels.
easing the suffering of the urban poor, improving unfair and dangerous working conditions, and reforming government at the national, state, and local levels.
"Be it enacted by... Congress... That no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, any article or... product of any mine or quarry situated in the United States, in which... children under the age of sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work..."
This quote reflects the public's support for the -
control of the mining industry
abolition of child labor
regulation of product transportation
limitation of foreign trade
In 1916, Congress established a new federal agency "which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the
enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."
Which agency does this excerpt refer?
National Park Service
Civilian Conservation Corps
Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Homeland Security
Which of these was a major goal of Jane Addam's Settlement House movement in
Chicago?
founding of women's colleges
introduction of prison reform
assimilation of immigrants
establishment of public libraries
Which statement describes a referendum?
petition that indicates the public's support for a vote on a bill
opportunity for the public to accept or reject a proposed bill
removal of a public official from office at the hands of the electorate
casting of votes in a confidential manner
