WorksheetsUnit 2 Progressive Era Review
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which of the following did not impact society in the late 1800's?
Captains of industry contributed to the rise of big business.
New inventions contributed to rapid industrial growth.
Increased immigration and industrialization led to rapid urbanization.
Women's suffrage becomes a reality with the 19th Amendment.
What area did Jacob Riis cover as a police reporter?
New York City
Alabama
Lowell, Massachusetts
Bozeman, Montana
What type of corruption is represented by a Tammany Hall cartoon by Thomas Nast?
Political Boss and the Political Machines
Trustbusting
Labor Unions
Monopoliestthomathomtho
What kind of laws denied African Americans the same rights as white Americans in the late 1800s and 1900s?
Suffrage
Reconstruction
Jim Crow
Labor
Which leader believed that it would be acceptable for African Americans to sit in segregated areas?
WEB DuBois
Nat Love
Marcus Garvey
Booker T Washington
Which African American believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?
WEB DuBois
Nat Love
Marcus Garvey
Booker T Washington
What is a company that owns the majority of an industry like Rockefeller's Standard Oil?
monopoly
labor union
vertically integrated
Corporation
Which of the following was a negative result of industrialization?
Production of more goods
Boosted American economy
Creation of more jobs
Increased child labor
Why did many factory owners use child labor?
Children were more efficient than older workers.
Children could be paid less than adults.
Children could read and write better than older workers.
Parents wanted their children to have careers.
Which group was most neglected by the Progressive Movement?
City dwellers
Children
African Americans
Women
What term means the right to vote?
monopoly
suffrage
temperance
progressive
What type of reforms did Lewis Hine work towards?
child labor
women's rights
temperance
suffrage
Which of the following was not a Progressive Reform of the late 1800's and early 1900's?
Muckrakers exposing corruption
Abolition Movement
Women's Suffrage Movement
Temperance Movement
Which of the following was a Progressive Reform that Jacob Riis supported?
Poverty in How the Other Half Lives
Unsafe working conditions
Women's Suffrage Movement
Temperance Movement
Which of the following was a Progressive Reform that Upton Sinclair covered?
Poverty in How the Other Half Lives
Unsafe working conditions in meatpacking houses in The Jungle
Women's Suffrage Movement
Temperance Movement
Which of the following was a Progressive Reform that Thomas Nast reported on?
Boss Tweeds corrupt political machine
Unsafe working conditions
Women's Suffrage Movement
Temperance Movement
Which of the following did not promote industrial growth in America?
New inventions
An available workforce
Access to raw materials
Chinese Exclusion Act
Which of the following was a Progressive Reform that Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton supported?
Rockefellers corrupt trust
Unsafe working conditions
Women's Suffrage Movement
Temperance Movement
Who was known as the Captain of the oil industry?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
Who was known as the Captain of the Shipping and Railroad industry?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
Who was known as the Captain of the steel industry?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
Which person responded to immigration challenges by starting a settlement house called Hull House?
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Addams
Ida Tarbell
What effect did the U.S. Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson have on American life?
made labor unions legal in the U.S.
banned immigration from certain countries
improved safety conditions in the workplace.
upheld laws of racial segregation.
Which labor uprising happened in Carnegie's steel plant where violence turned the public opinion against labor unions?
Suffrage Movement
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Haymarket Riot
