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Tuesday Madness!!!

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 54mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Muckraker who took pictures of child labor and hid his findings in his bible.

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Lewis Hines

c)

Lincoln Steffens

d)

Upton Sinclair

2.

"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof..."


The text is an excerpt from which amendment?

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

3.

A political and social movement which looked to intellectuals, politicians, scientist, and social reformers to solve the issues brought on by industrialization.

a)

urbanization

b)

westward expansion

c)

progressivism

d)

imperialism

4.

Which statement describes a referendum?

a)

petition that indicates the public's support for a vote on a bill

b)

Voters can accept or repeal a law based on a popular vote

c)

removal of a public official from office at the hands of the electorate

d)

casting of votes in a confidential manner

5.

movement of people from rural areas to growing urban areas

a)

internal migration

b)

urbanization

c)

industrialization

d)

immigration

6.

The 18th Amendment meant what for alcohol in America?

a)

Prohibition

b)

Legalization

c)

Progressivism

d)

Inflation

7.

Which Amendment does this represent?

a)

16

b)

17

c)

18

d)

19

8.

Progressivism was a direct result of:

a)

The Great Depression

b)

The Civil War

c)

The Industrial Revolution

d)

Imperialism

9.

Muckrakers contributed to the Progressive Era by:

a)

working for federal agencies to expose corruption in big businesses.

b)

investigating possible Socialists within the labor movement.

c)

exposing the various problems through literary and photographic works.

d)

supporting Progressive political parties.

10.

How the Other Half Lives exposed the plight of the urban working class. Who is responsible for this work?

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Frank Norris

11.

A nativists would believe reform could be achieved by:

a)

restraining businesses.

b)

limiting immigration.

c)

passing environmental legislation

d)

enfranchising women and promoting civil rights.

12.

All of the following are Progressive Era Amendments EXCEPT:

a)

15th

b)

16th

c)

17th

d)

18th

e)

19th

13.
When was the Progressive Era?
a)
Antebellum
b)
1865-1877
c)
1900-1920
d)
1933-1945
14.
Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Lewis Hines 
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Upton Sinclair
15.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
16.
Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?
a)
Alexander Bell
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Theodore Roosevelt
17.

Socialists believe in

a)

 No government 

b)

Private ownership of business 

c)

Government regulation of business 

d)

Government ownership of private property

18.

Progressivism was partly a reaction against what?

a)

 Socialism

b)

Laissez-faire policies

c)

Free trade market

d)

 Supply side economics

19.

Which of the following combinations were the three Progressive Presidents?

a)

Taft, Hayes, T Roosevelt

b)

Wilson, Garfield, Taft

c)

T Roosevelt, Johnson, Morgan

d)

T Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson

20.
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Upton Sinclair
21.

What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890) and was used against the Standard Oil Company?

a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Keller-Cefauver Act
22.
Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?
a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)
Jane Addams
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Belle Starr
23.
Which of the following is an initiative?
a)

Voters have the right to remove a politician from office

b)

Voters have the right to choose who will run for President

c)

Voters can now propose their own bills to congress.

d)

Voters have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government

24.
Which of the following is a Recall?
a)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
b)
People have the right to remove an elected official from office
c)
People have the right to propose a new law
d)
People have the right to vote on any law passed by their government for approval/veto
25.
This person helped to found the NAACP
a)
Ida B Wells
b)
Booker T Washington
c)
W E B DuBois
d)
Martin Luther King Jr.
26.
To preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resources
a)
Precipitation
b)
Confurion
c)
Conservation
d)
Infusion
27.
The banning of alcohol.
a)
Institution
b)
Referendum
c)
Principal
d)
Prohibition
28.
Repealed prohibition.  Which amendment is this?
a)
21st
b)
18th
c)
27th
d)
4th
29.
Congress can tax income.  Which amendment is this?
a)
16th
b)
18th
c)
9th
d)
10th
30.
Name the platform that Roosevelt would use to describe his policies of fairness?
a)
bully pulpit
b)
Roosevelt Corollary
c)
Big Stick Diplomacy
d)
Square Deal
31.

What is a tentement?

a)

a old house

b)

a apartment building with a balcony

c)

tiny, overcrowded, poorly built apartment

d)

a well built cabin

32.

What is a philanthropist?

a)

A person who gives money back to communities

b)

a monopoly

c)

a person who takes money from employees

d)

none of the above

33.

How did Andrew Carnegie earn his money?

a)

in the oil industry

b)

in the steel industry

c)

banking industry

d)

all of the aboe

34.

What is a strike?

a)

not buying a certain product

b)

someone crossing a picket line

c)

Owners not allowing workers to work

d)

Employees refusing to work

35.

Who was the leader and first President of the AFL (American Federation of Labor)?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Samuel Gompers

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

John D Rockefeller

36.

Nickname given to industrialists like Rockefeller who many felt were taking advantage of Americans and bending the rules.

a)

muckrakers

b)

robber barons

c)

scabs

d)

socialists

37.

After leaving the Presidency in 1808 Teddy Roosevelt came back to politics to challenge for a third term as a member of which party?

a)

Democrats

b)

Republicans

c)

The Bull Moose Party

d)

The Whigs

38.

Two areas in which Progressivism made little or no change was:

a)

civil rights issues

b)

creating more employment

c)

lowering taxes

d)

ending monopolies

39.

Muckraker who exposed corrupt politics in his book "The Shame of Cities"

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Lincoln Steffens

d)

Lewis Hines

40.

This Act centralized the banking system during the Progressive Era

a)

The Federal Reserve Act

b)

The Banking Act of 1906

c)

The Panic-Act

d)

The National Banking Act

41.

What are 3 things Theodore Roosevelt is most known for?

a)

Trust busting

b)

Conservationist

c)

Laissez faire policies

d)

Big stick foreign policy

42.

This muckraker focused on ending sweat shops and pushing for the 8 hour work day.

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Florence Kelly

c)

Mother Jones

d)

Mary Smith

43.

What were the 3 economic goals of the Progressives

a)

stopping the formation of trust companies

b)

centralizing the banking system

c)

lowering tariffs

d)

regulating businesses

44.

What was the 16th Amendment used for?

a)

establishing eastern coastal factories

b)

funding the police force, firemen, roads, and military.

c)

Social Security benefits

d)

gaining women's suffrage

45.

This woman wanted to attain suffrage slowly and state-by-state.

a)

Alice Paul

b)

Lucy Burns

c)

Carrie Chapman Catt

d)

Inez Milholland

46.

Which Act strengthened the Sherman Anti-trust Act

a)

Underwood Anti-trust Act

b)

Federal Reserve Act

c)

Payton-Aldrich Act

d)

Clayton Anti-trust Act

47.

Merit based exams for civil service was passed in 1883 by the ...

a)

Stratford Act

b)

Pendragon Act

c)

Pemberton Act

d)

Pendleton Act

48.

What exactly is a "settlement house?"

a)

a house for settlers to live in while they are building their own home

b)

a development of houses that serves as a community

c)

an area of poverty that is a problem

d)

a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services

49.

Who founded Hull house?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Jane Addams

c)

William Tweed

d)

Thomas Edison

50.

Which legislation resulted from the publication of Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle?

a)

Hepburn Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Meat Inspection Act

d)

Interstate Commerce Act

51.

This Act railroad rates were strongly regulated the railroads by setting maxium rates

a)

Interstate Commerce

b)

Hepburn Act

c)

Sherman Act

d)

The Railroad Act of 1906

52.

Which of these BEST describes the differences between W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington?

a)

DuBois wanted to negotiate with white leaders, but Washington believed that total segregation was needed.

b)

DuBois wanted immediate equality for blacks, while Washington wanted to use a slower approach for change.

c)

There were no differences between them, both DuBois and Washington wanted equality as fast as possible.

d)

Washington wanted to negotiate with white leaders, but DuBois believed that total segregation was needed.

53.

Scientist and experts were brought in to fix which problem in the Progressive Era?

a)

municipal problems

b)

child labor issues

c)

factory output problems

d)

railraod construction

54.

What were the organizations that provided immigrants with much needed money, food, housing, and jobs in exchange for their votes?

a)

Settlement houses

b)

Legislative automobiles

c)

Political machines

d)

Unions

55.

What services were offered at Hull House?

a)

A children's nursery

b)

voting registration

c)

English classes, early childhod education, sports

d)

financial help, voting registration, medical exams

56.

The person who ultimately brought down Boss Tweed was a cartoonist by the name of

a)

Benjamin Moore

b)

Harper Bazar

c)

Thomas Nast

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

57.

Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?

a)

America had many organizations for immigrants to join.

b)

America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.

c)

It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

58.

The transcontinental railroad was mostly built by:

a)

Chinese and Irish immigrants because they worked for low wages.

b)

Americans who moved west from large cities in the east.

c)

Indians

59.

This invention mass produced steel, which was used to build railroads and skyscrapers:

a)

The Crucible Process

b)

The Bessemer Process

c)

The Broiler-Effect

d)

The Assembly Line

60.

Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller created monopolies. What is a monopoly?

a)

When one person or company controls an entire market

b)

combining different businesses together

c)

a law that gave them advantages in business

d)

a law that allowed total control over employees

61.

Which law gave 160 acres of farmland to citizens in order to move to the Great Plains?

a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
Stamp Act
c)
Great Plains Act
d)
Homestead Act
62.
Which group believed in survival of the fittest and people were naturally selected to succeed?
a)
social darwinist
b)
political bosses
c)
nativist
d)
political machines
63.
Who was the leader of Tammany Hall (New York Poltical Machine)?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
Henry Ford
c)
John D. Rockefeller
d)
William Tweed
64.
The Exodusters were...
a)
former slaves
b)
current slaves
c)
current ranchers
d)
former ranchers
65.

Government policy that divided tribal land among Native Americans for farming.

a)

Pendleton Act 1892

b)
Custer's Last Stand 1876
c)

Dawes Act 1887

d)

Homestead Act 1882

66.

What are businessmen who are known for their positive contribution to the modern industrial economy called?

a)

Robber Barons

b)

Entrepreneurs

c)

Leaders

d)

Captains of Industry

67.

The theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market.

a)

Maslow

b)

Bessemer Process

c)

Free Enterprise

d)

Laisez-Faire

68.

Progressives shared a belief that industrialization and urbanization

a)

should be supported despite the dangers they posed.

b)

would not occur in the United States without their support.

c)

had created serious social and political problems

d)

should be completely banned by legislation.

69.

Voters select their party candidates for the general election, not political machines

a)

Referendum

b)

Initiative

c)

Direct Primary

d)

Recall

70.

Leader of the American Railway Union who was jailed during the Pullman Strike

a)

Terrance Powderly

b)

Samuel Gompers

c)

Eugene Debs

d)

Lincoln Steffens