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Chapter 18: The Progressive Era Honors Study Guide

Total questions: 80

Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

All of the following measures furthered direct democracy except . . .

a)

the secret ballot

b)

direct primaries

c)

referendums

d)

city managers

2.

What law was passed after the publication of The Jungle?

a)

Clayton Antitrust Act

b)

Federal Trade Commission Act

c)

Hepburn Act

d)

Pure Food and Drug Act

3.

How did progressives try to prevent politicians from intimidating and bribing voters?

a)

Direct Primary

b)

Initiative

c)

Referedum

d)

Secret Ballot

4.

What was the subject of The Jungle?

a)

conservation

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

meatpacking

d)

poor housing

5.

What was most significant about the coal miners' strike in 1902?

a)

the public sympathized with the miners

b)

the federal government acted as a mediator

c)

Coal was the major source of heat for the nation

d)

the owners consented to a nine-hour workday.

6.

What amendment called for the direct election of senators?

a)

the Sixteenth Amendment

b)

the Seventeenth Amendment

c)

the Eighteenth Amendment

d)

the Nineteenth Amendment

7.

What amendment made a federal income tax legal?

a)

the Sixteenth Amendment

b)

the Seventeenth Amendment

c)

the Eighteenth Amendment

d)

the Nineteenth Amendment

8.

Theodore Roosevelt crusaded for all of the following causes except . . .

a)

conservation

b)

segregation

c)

trusbusting

d)

the Panama Canal

9.

What industry was "busted" by the Northern Securities case?

a)

coal mining

b)

meatpacking

c)

railroads

d)

oil

10.

What theme did Theodore Roosevelt adopt during his first campaign?

a)

New Deal

b)

New Freedom

c)

New Nationalism

d)

Square Deal

11.

What reform measure has been called the "Magna Carta" of labor?

a)

Nineteenth Amendment

b)

Hepburn Act

c)

Clayton Antitrust Act

d)

Northern Securities Case

12.

Which black leader told blacks they must improve themselves economically before they could expect political equality?

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Jim Crow

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Booker T. Washington

13.

What minister was a leading advocate of the social gospel?

a)

John Dewey

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Walter Rauschenbusch

d)

Booker T. Washington

14.

American leaders were afraid to grant the Philippines independence too quickly because they . . .

a)

wanted the Philippines to pay for the damages caused by their insurrection

b)

wanted to keep the Philippine markets open for trade

c)

feared that another country would take over the Philippines

d)

believed the Filipinos would be incapable of ruling themselves

15.

Woodrow Wilson is credited with all the following achievements except. . .

a)

the Underwood Tariff Act

b)

the Federal Reserve Act

c)

the Federal Trade Commission Act

d)

the Food and Drug Act

16.

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

a)

the Sixteenth Amendment

b)

the Seventeenth Amendment

c)

the Eighteenth Amendment

d)

the Nineteenth Amendment

17.

A graduated income tax is an income tax . . .

a)

for those who hold academic degrees

b)

charging one amount to all the people

c)

charging a higher percentage to the rich

d)

based on the size of a taxpayer's family

18.

What phrase is most closely associated with the Roosevelt Corollary?

a)

Big Stick

b)

International Policeman

c)

Great White Fleet

d)

Square Deal

19.

Progressive education emphasized . . .

a)

memorization

b)

history

c)

experience

d)

latin

20.

Who often said, “Speak softly and carry a big stick”?

a)

William Howard Taft

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

Woodrow Wilson

21.

What was the goal of the city manager form of government?

a)

direct democracy

b)

government intervention

c)

government efficiency

d)

conservation

22.

What black agricultural scientist helped popularize the peanut?

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Hiram Revels

d)

Booker T. Washington

23.

What was Taft's foreign policy called?

a)

dollar diplomacy

b)

battleship diplomacy

c)

New Nationalism

d)

Square Deal

24.

Which of the following is not true about President Taft?

a)

He dismissed Joseph Cannon.

b)

He dismissed Gifford Pinchot.

c)

He had a strained relationship with Theodore Roosevelt.

d)

He adopted a foreign policy known as dollar diplomacy.

25.

Which progressive ran on a platform called “New Nationalism” in 1912?

a)

William McKinley

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

William Howard Taft

d)

Woodrow Wilson

26.

What was probably the most significant agricultural advance during the Progressive Era?

a)

combine

b)

harvester

c)

tractor

d)

barbed wire

27.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement that favored reform

a)

progressivism

b)

gas-and-water socialism

c)

initiative

d)

Prohibition

e)

segregation

28.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

government ownership of utilities

a)

progressivism

b)

gas-and-water socialism

c)

initiative

d)

Prohibition

e)

segregation

29.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

petition for the legislature to consider an action

a)

progressivism

b)

gas-and-water socialism

c)

initiative

d)

Prohibition

e)

segregation

30.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

ban on the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages

a)

progressivism

b)

gas-and-water socialism

c)

initiative

d)

Prohibition

e)

segregation

31.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

the forced separation of races

a)

progressivism

b)

gas-and-water socialism

c)

initiative

d)

Prohibition

e)

segregation

32.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

influencing foreign affairs through investment

a)

dollar diplomacy

b)

secular humanism

c)

modernism

d)

social gospel

e)

grandfather clause

33.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

denial of God and affirmation of man’s perfectibility

a)

dollar diplomacy

b)

secular humanism

c)

modernism

d)

social gospel

e)

grandfather clause

34.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

theological movement that rejected many Christian doctrines

a)

dollar diplomacy

b)

secular humanism

c)

modernism

d)

social gospel

e)

grandfather clause

35.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

belief that human reform came through improving one’s environment

a)

dollar diplomacy

b)

secular humanism

c)

modernism

d)

social gospel

e)

grandfather clause

36.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

crusader for women’s suffrage

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Robert La Follette

c)

Eugene Debs

d)

Booker T. Washington

e)

W.E.B.DuBois

37.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

made Wisconsin a “laboratory of democracy”

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Robert La Follette

c)

Eugene Debs

d)

Booker T. Washington

e)

W.E.B.DuBois

38.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

wrote Up From Slavery

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Robert La Follette

c)

Eugene Debs

d)

Booker T. Washington

e)

W.E.B.DuBois

39.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

Socialist candidate for president

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Robert La Follette

c)

Eugene Debs

d)

Booker T. Washington

e)

W.E.B.DuBois

40.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

cofounder of the NAACP

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Robert La Follette

c)

Eugene Debs

d)

Booker T. Washington

e)

W.E.B.DuBois

41.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

powerful Speaker of the House

a)

Joseph Cannon

b)

John Dewey

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Benjamin Warfield

e)

Billy Sunday

42.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

chief advocate of progressive education

a)

Joseph Cannon

b)

John Dewey

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Benjamin Warfield

e)

Billy Sunday

43.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

agricultural researcher

a)

Joseph Cannon

b)

John Dewey

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Benjamin Warfield

e)

Billy Sunday

44.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

defender of orthodox Christianity

a)

Joseph Cannon

b)

John Dewey

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Benjamin Warfield

e)

Billy Sunday

45.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.

urban evangelist

a)

Joseph Cannon

b)

John Dewey

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Benjamin Warfield

e)

Billy Sunday

46.

What did the Eighteenth Amendment enact?

(a)  

47.

What term was applied to laws in the South that forced segregation?

(a)  

48.

What board of five men was created during Wilson’s administration to help define and halt unfair trade practices?

(a)  

49.

Who perfected the assembly line method of production?

(a)  

50.

What twentieth-century movement denied the existence of God and affirmed the goodness and the perfectibility of man?

(a)  

51.

Who made the first successful airplane flight?

(a)  

52.

What legislation allowed many white Americans to avoid paying the poll tax and completing the literacy tests?

(a)  

53.

What term referred to progressive writers who exposed abuse and corruption?

(a)  

54.

What is the popular term for breaking up monopolies?

(a)  

55.

What theological movement rejected many Christian doctrines?

(a)  

56.

What organization was focused on fighting legal battles on behalf of blacks?

(a)  

57.

Which president was most closely associated with progressivism?

(a)  

58.

What process allowed voters to petition for a special election to decide whether to remove an elected official from office?

(a)  

59.

Name a mosquito-borne tropical disease whose occurrence was successfully reduced by medical officers.

(a)  

60.

What was built in Central America to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?

(a)  

61.

Who campaigned under the motto “New Freedom” in 1912?

(a)  

62.

What philosophy regarding the use of national resources did Theodore Roosevelt promote?

(a)  

63.

In 1912 what party won the most electoral votes of any third party in presidential history?

(a)  

64.

What progressive religious movement sought to regenerate man by reforming society?

(a)  

65.

True or False

By requiring literacy tests, Southern states deprived many blacks of their right to vote.

(a)  

66.

True or False

The first income tax unfairly burdened the poor.

(a)  

67.

True or False

The women’s suffrage movement began long before the progressives began to crusade for it.

(a)  

68.

True or False

President William Howard Taft initiated more antitrust suits than President Theodore Roosevelt.

(a)  

69.

True or False

The Meat Inspection Act seriously hampered private production and hurt sales of meat.

(a)  

70.

True or False

The Roosevelt Corollary was popular among Europeans and Latin Americans.

(a)  

71.

True or False

The muckrakers were yellow journalists whose primary interest was to boost sales.

(a)  

72.

True or False

Henry Ford became famous for inventing the automobile.

(a)  

73.

True or False

Theodore Roosevelt earned the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth.

(a)  

74.

True or False

Dollar diplomacy was a great success.

(a)  

75.

True or False

The Pure Food and Drug Act required honest labeling of products.

(a)  

76.

True or False

In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court supported segregation.

(a)  

77.

True or False

Under the Hepburn Act, railroads had little say in the rates they could charge.

(a)  

78.

True or False

The progressive movement opposed the growth of federal government.

(a)  

79.

True or False

The Progressive Era was a thriving time for American agriculture.

(a)  

80.

True or False

Theodore Roosevelt believed that the United States should take a more active role in other nations’ affairs.

(a)