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WorksheetsProgressive Era Review
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 21mins
A goal of the Progressives during the Progressive Era was to.
end child labor
end political corruption
expand direct democracy
all of the above
What role did Teddy Roosevelt play in conservation?
He influenced the creation of the National Parks System
He called on Americans to stop consuming oil
He signed a law banning the use of fossil fuels.
He advocated for conservative values.
The Gilded Age (1880s-1900s) featured the growing power of big business and their monopolization of industries. Such economic power prevented competition and manipulated consumer prices. What did Congress do as a response?
Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act
Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passed laws protecting monopolies
Congress passed the Clayton Antitrust Act
This muckraker revealed the unsanitary conditions of the streets of New York City caused by widespread homelessness and poverty of newcomers.
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Thomas Nast
Jacob Riis
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, led President Roosevelt to respond by
passing the 16th Amendment
better school nutrition programs
government regulation of the food industry
reforms in working conditions
A major purpose of the Progressive Movement (1900 to 1917) was to –
correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society.
encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe.
support government control of factory production.
stimulate the industrial economy.
Which of the following occurred as a result of the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Workers secured a share of company profits
The influence of labor unions on factory owners was reduced
The federal government could dissolve business monopolies
Businesses were required to pay fees to open overseas locations
“Today three-fourths of the people in New York City live in tenements, in the 19th century drift of the population to the cities is sending ever-increasing multitudes to crowd them. The fifteen thousand tenant houses that were the despair of the sanitarium in the past generation have swelled into thirty seven thousand, and more than twelve hundred thousand persons call them home.”
-Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives, 1890
The main idea of this excerpt from Jacob Riis’ book is that-
Cities are unable to handle the flow of new arrivals
The treatment of African Americans remains almost as bad as under slavery
Farmers can find a higher living standard if they leave the farm and move to the city
Certain laws are needed to protect consumers from deceptive practices
Reforming means
Changing something for the better
Controlling something
Buying something
Approving Something
What do reforms like initiatives, referendums, and recalls attempt to do?
give the people more power over the government
limit citizenship rights like voting
provide low interest loans to farmers
establish a system of checks and balances
Who outlined the Progressive reforms of the American public and gave his presidential campaign the name "Square Deal?"
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
In the cartoon above, President Theodore Roosevelt is depicted doing which of the following?
Standing guard to protect big business
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Leading a government take-over of large industries
Putting an end to industries that might harm the environment
Which are reasons that workers formed unions?
The workers could negotiate (make deals) better as a group than by themselves.
Workers often wanted better pay.
Their bosses wanted them to form unions and ask for more money.
Many jobs had long hours and poor working conditions that needed to improve.
What is a strike?
When people who stop working are replaced by other workers.
When everyone in one job or at one business stop working at the same time.
When workers join together to make it easier to negotiate.
The people who replace people who stopped working.
Who are strike breakers?
Guys hired to attack the men on strike.
Workers that all start working at the same time.
Workers who join together to make it easier to negotiate.
The people who replace people who stopped working.
Why would strikes be effective (helpful) at getting workers what they want?
It costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time to hire and train new workers.
The government would step in to help workers.
There will be no one to work for the boss and they will lose business.
The people who stopped working would get government benefits.
What did the government often do when workers went on strike?
They would not do anything.
They would provide the families of people on strike with food.
They would send in troops to stop the strike.
They would encourage the bosses to increase worker pay.
This law was created after "The Jungle" horrified Americans about the quality and safety of their meat.
Pendleton Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Fiat Money Policy
Pure Food and Drug Act
In response to public concern over issues raised by Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, the federal government expanded its role in --
working with labor unions to increase worker salaries
taking responsibility for the safety of consumers
setting limits on the growth of private industry
implementing social welfare programs
In the Progressive Era, novels and essays were by investigative reporters to publicize problems that needed to be addressed. These writers were known as which of the following?
bosses
socialists
muckrakers
rabble-rousers
What were photographs such as this one taken by Lewis Hine primarily intended to accomplish?
Encourage leaders to make segregation in schools illegal
Document labor conditions during an economic crisis
Depict the evils of capitalism in communist propaganda
Focus attention on the need for child labor reforms
(TEKS 5B) Jane Addams MOST contributed to Progressivism by --
supporting the emerging philosophy of Social Darwinism
promoting social reform on American Indian reservations
forming the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
spreading the settlement house movement by founding Hull House
The number of factories using assembly lines decreased.
A progressive movement worked to stop the use of child labor.
A political movement worked to lower taxes for businesses.
The number of people joining labor unions decreased.
People like Upton Sinclair were ___________________ because they investigated and exposed abuse and corruption.
Supporters of Political Machines
Nativists
Muckrakers
Industialists
Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
How did the reforms listed above impact the US?
A system of separate schools for new immigrants
They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class
President that was known as a "trustbuster"
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
McKinley
Jacob Riis and Jane Addams fought to improve the lives of which group?
African Americans
Immigrants
Miners and farmers
the working class and poor
Urban living conditions during the Progressive Era can be described as:
Clean, comfy, inviting
Spacious, expensive, fun
Horrible, crowded, filthy
Goals the Progressive Era reforms were trying to adress:
Child Labor
Poor living conditions
Low Wages
All the above
Author who wrote "The Jungle" exposing the unregulated chaos of the meatpacking industry:
Jacob Riis
Jane Addams
Upton Sinclair
Clark Kent
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy focusing on consumer protection, Corporate regulations, and conserving natural resources:
Square Deal
Round Deal
New Deal
Green New Deal
Legislation passed to regulate the meat packing industry, giving federal agents the power to inspect meat plants:
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Square Deal
Hepburn Act
What did workers want when they went on strike?
Higher wages
Better working conditions
Fewer hours
All Choices
an organization formed by workers to improve or protect wages, working conditions and benifits
union
depression
trust
capital
investment
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Tactics of Management
Closing down a factory or mill so that workers cannot work there.
Tácticas de Dirección
Cerrar una fábrica o molino para que los trabajadores no puedan trabajar allí.
Strike-breakers (Scabs)
Lockout
Blacklisting
Pinkertons
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Tactics of Management
A temporary worker who fills jobs during a strike, often from a different ethnic group than most of the strikers.
Tácticas de Dirección
Un trabajador temporal que llena puestos de trabajo durante una huelga, a menudo de un grupo étnico diferente al de la mayoría de los huelguistas
Lockout
Yellow-Dog Contract
Pinkertons
Strike-breakers (Scabs)
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Tactics of Management
Forcing workers to sign an agreement, not to unionize.
Tácticas de Dirección
Obligar a los trabajadores a firmar un convenio, no a sindicalizarse.
Pinkertons
Lockout
Yellow-Dog Contract
Scabs
What law was passed in 1938 to help protect workers and prevent child labor?
There were no laws passed to protect workers
Disability Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Social Security Act
What was the main reason that businesses liked to hire children?
They were strong
They were educated
They worked for low wages
They worked fast
