WorksheetsThe Progressive Era
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
What was progressivism?
Large-scale industrialization
A reform movement that developed with the purpose of making moderate political changes and social improvements through government action.
Improving societal issues for economic gain.
The belief that agrarian societies would help further the growth of a country.
What was the novel "The Jungle" about?
The novel was about how animals who live in the rainforest are becoming endangered.
The abuse of immigrant miners.
The novel portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited lives of meat factory workers.
The low wages of railroad workers
Who were the muckrackers?
Nationalists
Wealthy landowners during the progressive era.
Democratic voters during the elections of 1960
Journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era who exposed corruption and hardships through their works.
What muckracker published "How the Other Half Lives"?
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
What muckracker published "The Shame of the Cities"?
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffens
What Muckracker published "The Jungle"?
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
What magazine article did Ida Tarbell write?
The Financer and the Titan
The History of the Standard Oil Company
What presidents had terms during the Progressive Era?
- William Mckinley
-Calvin Coolidge
-Theodore Roosevelt
-William Howard Taft
-Woodrow Wilson
-Grover Cleveland
-James A. Garfield
-Benjamin Harrison
Who coined the term "muckracker"?
President Theodore Roosevelt
Democrats
Samuel Sidney McClure
When was the Progressive Era?
1890-1920
1896-1910
1910-1925
What methods did Progressives propose in goverment forcing politicians to act and obey "the will of the people"?
Referendum
Recall
Initiative
-Popular sovereignty
-Blind voting
The public outcry as a result of the novel "The Jungle" led to the passage of what act(s)?
Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Clayton Act
Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914
Sherman Antitrust Act
Involved the widespread concern over alcoholism and the prevention of selling alcoholic beverages.
Temperance and Prohibition
Alcoholism and Restraint
Intoxication and Sobriety
Abstinence and Water dieting
The National (a) Committee proposed model state child labor laws that were passed by two-thirds of the states by 1907.
This Supreme Court case ruled that health of women needed special protection from long hours.
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Lochner v. New York (1905)
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire took 146 lives, mostly women. Where did the Triangle Shirtwaist fire occur?
Boston
New York
Chicago
New Jersey
What was Woodrow Wilson's "triple wall of privilege"?
Tariffs
Banking
Trusts
Lotteries
Shelters
Programs
Progressive women worked on other issues as well. What progressive woman advocated birth-control education?
Florence Kelley
Jane Addams
Ida B. Wells
Margaret Sanger
What was the irony of the National Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
It was founded by white progressives
more whites were a part of the organization
members of the organization were mean to blacks not in the organization but kind to whites
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
Niagara Movement
Canadian Civil Rights movement.
The 19th amendment...
gave women the right to vote
allowed women to have abortions
What acts/amendments were passed during the Progressive Era?
18th amendment
19th Amendment
Clayton Antitrust act
21st amendment
22nd amendment
