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The Progressive Movement APUSH

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Amendment that gave blacks suffrage

(a)  

2.

Identify 4 ways voting rights were improved during the Progressive Era

a)

initiative

b)

21st Amendment

c)

17th Amendment

d)

referendum

e)

recall

3.

Which movement is Susan B. Anthony most closely associated with?

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

Women’s Suffrage

c)

Muckraker Movement

d)

Temperance Movement

4.

An important Progressive reformer who became President of the US. He helped pass through many progressive reforms.

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Harry Truman

d)

Woodrow Wilson

5.

Gives voters the power to remove elected officials.

a)

recall

b)

referendum

c)

initiative

d)

tar & feather

6.

Wilson supported the _____, allowing the government to supervise the banking system and indirectly _____ for the entire nation.

a)

Federal Trade Commission (FTC); regulate unfair trade practices

b)

Federal Reserve System; control interest rates

c)

Clayton Antitrust Act; regulate income levels

d)

Underwood Tariff; control monetary flow

7.

His electric light bulb allowed people to work after sunset.

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Thomas Paine

d)

Thomas Hobbes

8.

Progressivism failed to address two types of discrimination: ________________.

a)

economic and political

b)

age and ability

c)

racial and religious

d)

geographic and gender

9.

Why was Wilson opposed to Roosevelt's ideas of laws to protect women and children in the workforce?

a)

Wilson believed Roosevelt's plan gave the federal government too much power in the economy

b)

Wilson believed Roosevelt's plan did not give the federal government enough power to regulate industry

c)

Wilson believed Roosevelt was too emotional in his plans

d)

Wilson believed Roosevelt's plan was unnecessary because women and children were not working

10.

Author of the Jungle, a book that exposed the bad conditions in the meatpacking industry:

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Jacob Riis

11.

Founded the Hull House to assist new immigrants in Chicago:

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Jerry Lee Lewis

12.

A belief that only the smartest and strongest in society survive.

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

Social Gospel

c)

muckraking

d)

Progressivism

13.

What was the significance of Teddy Roosevelt’s Conservation Movement?

a)

Preserve millions of acres of wilderness land such as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park

b)

Decrease in taxes, increase in military spending, decrease in social programs

c)

Developed federal laws restricting immigrants from communist and socialist countries, Western Europe

d)

Creates the Environmental Protection Agency, conducts environmental research, and to assists state and local governments in the clean-up of polluted sites

14.

Southern Resistance to 13th amendment

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Jim Crow

c)

Poll Tax

15.

Wilson's program to destroy monopolies and limit government power was called _______

a)

New Freedom

b)

New Nationalism

c)

Power Destruction Initiative (PDI)

d)

A Return to Normal Nationalism

16.

Wilson signed the _____ in 1913 that reduced tariffs and provided for levying an _____ on earnings of individuals.

a)

Underwood Tariff Act; income tax

b)

Tariff Elimination Act; anti-trust law

c)

Wilson Tariff Act; uplifting raise

d)

Progressive Tariff Reform; unfair trade practice protection

17.

Amendment gave women the right to vote

(a)  

18.

He was perhaps the first President to side with a union during a strike:

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Taft

c)

Wilson

19.

An addition to the Monroe Doctrine that said the US would “police” Latin America & a warning to European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere:

a)

Roosevelt Corollary

b)

Nationalism

c)

Imperial Warning

20.

Muckrakers like Ida Tarbell hoped to

a)

oversee the Tennessee Valley Authority

b)

stop ratification of the 18th Amendment

c)

expose abuses in business and corruption in politics

d)

improved methods of mass production

21.

Amendment that gave blacks citizenship and equal rights

(a)  

22.

What was the purpose of the American Federation of Labor?

a)

Provided education, medical care, pension, and mortgage loans for military veterans

b)

A political group that fought for the full social and economic equality for African Americans

c)

Journalist who brought attention to the social and political problems of the early 1900’s

d)

A labor union, designed to convince employers to give workers shorter workdays and better working conditions.

23.

Allows people to put laws directly on the ballot by collecting signatures on petitions.

a)

initiative

b)

referendum

c)

recall

d)

Galveston plan

24.

Examples of Progressivism in the federal government include laws passed to _____ and _____.

a)

protect workers; regulate business

b)

encourage child labor; progress business interests

c)

regulate income; solve poverty

d)

end racial discrimination; encourage religious acceptance