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Progressive Movement

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

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Class
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1.

William Howard Taft’s main criticism of President Theodore Roosevelt was that he

a)

                   a. claimed more power for his presidency than the Constitution allowed.

          

                  

                

b)

         b. opposed big business regulation.

c)

c. hurt conservation efforts by leasing public lands to big business.

d)

   d. encouraged the formation of monopolies.

2.

Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interests of consumers, laborers, and businesspeople was called

a)

                   e. the Great Society.

                   

                  

                  

b)

f. the Fair Play Accord.

c)

g. the Square Deal.

d)

h. the New Way.

3.

Who encouraged African Americans to improve their economic and educational opportunities rather than fight discrimination directly

a)

  i. Ida B. Wells

                   

                

                 

b)

j. W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

   k. Booker T. Washington

d)

m. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

4.

Journalists who wrote about problems in society during the Progressive age were known as

a)

n. Progressives.

               

                  

       

b)

    o. reformers.

c)

p. muckrakers.

d)

q. capitalists.

5.

Who became president upon the death of William McKinley?

a)

 r. William Howard Taft

                   

                   

                  

b)

s. James A. Garfield

c)

t. Theodore Roosevelt

d)

u. Woodrow Wilson

6.

This law prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.

a)

 Federal Trade Commission

b)

Pure Food and Drug Act.

c)

Square Deal

d)

Underwood Tariff Act

7.

This law banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages throughout the United States.

a)

16th Amendment

b)

grandfather clause

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

8.

Helped expand voting rights by allowing voters, and not state legislatures, to elect senators

a)

17

th Amendment

b)

grandfather clause

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

9.

This law granted American women the right to vote.

a)

16th Amendment

b)

grandfather clause

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

10.

This discriminatory law imposed strict qualifications on voters unless their grandfathers had been allowed to vote.

a)

16th Amendment

b)

grandfather clause

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

11.

Women’s suffrage movement organization founded by Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

a)

WASP

b)

UNCLE

c)

NAWSA

d)

NAACP

12.

Although born into slavery, he became a respected educator while in his twenties.

a)

Booker T Washington

b)

Ida B Wells

c)

Josiah B Quiet

d)

Williams Jennings Bryan

13.

This reformer wrote articles about the unequal education of African American children.

a)

WEB DuBois

b)

Julia Tutweiler

c)

Clifford the Big Red Dog

d)

Ida B. Wells

14.

First State to Give Women the Right to Vote

a)

State of Wyoming

b)

State of Confusion

c)

State of Alabama

d)

State of New York

15.

This reformer founded the NAACP in 1909.

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Booker T Washington

c)

WEB Dubois

d)

Mrs Boyd

16.

Alabama woman who worked to reform the state’s education and prison systems

a)

Clara Barton

b)

Julia Tutwiler

c)

Mrs Almeida

d)

Ida B Wells

17.

brought attention to racial inequality by using the courts to fight grandfather clauses that had been used to prevent African Americans in the South from voting

a)

NAACP

b)

NAWSA

c)

NAFTA

d)

Tuskegee Institute

18.

protection of nature and its resources

a)

conservation

b)

temperance

c)

suffrage

19.

Movement blamed social problems on a number of factors including alcohol consumption

a)

conservation

b)

temperance

c)

suffrage

20.

right to vote

a)

conservation

b)

temperance

c)

suffrage

21.

Party was formed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 to challenge President Taft.

a)

Progressive

b)

Socialist

c)

Democrat

d)

Republican

22.

stated he was as “Strong as a Bull Moose” during his 1912 presidential campaign

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Taft

c)

Wilson

d)

McKinley

23.

won the election of 1912 after the Republican vote was split between Taft and Roosevelt

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

William Jennings Bryan

c)

William McKinley

d)

Boss Tweed

24.

followed Theodore Roosevelt as president but upset many Progressives

a)

Franklin Roosevelt

b)

William Jennings Bryan

c)

William Howard Taft