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The Progressive Era

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was progressivism?

a)

Large-scale industrialization

b)

A reform movement that developed with the purpose of making moderate political changes and social improvements through government action.

c)

Improving societal issues for economic gain.

d)

The belief that agrarian societies would help further the growth of a country.

2.

What was the novel "The Jungle" about?

a)

The novel was about how animals who live in the rainforest are becoming endangered.

b)

The abuse of immigrant miners.

c)

The novel portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited lives of meat factory workers.

d)

The low wages of railroad workers

3.

Who were the muckrackers?

a)

Nationalists

b)

Wealthy landowners during the progressive era.

c)

Democratic voters during the elections of 1960

d)

Journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era who exposed corruption and hardships through their works.

4.

What muckracker published "How the Other Half Lives"?

a)

Lincoln Steffens

b)

Jacob Riis

5.

What muckracker published "The Shame of the Cities"?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Lincoln Steffens

6.

What Muckracker published "The Jungle"?

a)

Henry Demarest Lloyd

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Ida Tarbell

7.

What magazine article did Ida Tarbell write?

a)

The Financer and the Titan

b)

The History of the Standard Oil Company

8.

What presidents had terms during the Progressive Era?

a)

- William Mckinley

-Calvin Coolidge

b)

-Theodore Roosevelt

-William Howard Taft

-Woodrow Wilson

c)

-Grover Cleveland

-James A. Garfield

-Benjamin Harrison

9.

Who coined the term "muckracker"?

a)

President Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Democrats

c)

Samuel Sidney McClure

10.

When was the Progressive Era?

a)

1890-1920

b)

1896-1910

c)

1910-1925

11.

What methods did Progressives propose in goverment forcing politicians to act and obey "the will of the people"?

a)

Referendum

Recall

Initiative

b)

-Popular sovereignty

-Blind voting

12.

The public outcry as a result of the novel "The Jungle" led to the passage of what act(s)?

a)

Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

b)

Clayton Act

c)

Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914

d)

Sherman Antitrust Act

13.

Involved the widespread concern over alcoholism and the prevention of selling alcoholic beverages.

a)

Temperance and Prohibition

b)

Alcoholism and Restraint

c)

Intoxication and Sobriety

d)

Abstinence and Water dieting

14.

The National (a)   Committee proposed model state child labor laws that were passed by two-thirds of the states by 1907.

15.

This Supreme Court case ruled that health of women needed special protection from long hours.

a)

Muller v. Oregon (1908)

b)

Lochner v. New York (1905)

16.

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire took 146 lives, mostly women. Where did the Triangle Shirtwaist fire occur?

a)

Boston

b)

New York

c)

Chicago

d)

New Jersey

17.

What was Woodrow Wilson's "triple wall of privilege"?

a)

Tariffs

Banking

Trusts

b)

Lotteries

Shelters

Programs

18.

Progressive women worked on other issues as well. What progressive woman advocated birth-control education?

a)

Florence Kelley

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Margaret Sanger

19.

What was the irony of the National Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

a)

It was founded by white progressives

b)

more whites were a part of the organization

c)

members of the organization were mean to blacks not in the organization but kind to whites

20.

The Progressive Era prompted black leaders to found powerful civil rights organizations. W.E.B Du Bois met with a group of black intellectuals in Niagara Falls, Canada to discuss taking action and securing equal rights for blacks. What is the name of this movement

a)

Niagara Movement

b)

Canadian Civil Rights movement.

21.

The 19th amendment...

a)

gave women the right to vote

b)

allowed women to have abortions

22.

What acts/amendments were passed during the Progressive Era?

a)

18th amendment

19th Amendment

Clayton Antitrust act

b)

21st amendment

22nd amendment