WorksheetsProgressive Era
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
These were journalists who wrote book and articles that exposed corruption in business and government:
Progressives
Muckrakers
Sensationalists
Investigative reporters
This time period focused on social and political reforms in the United States in the early 1900s:
Civil War Era
Industrialization Era
Progressive Era
Reconstruction Era
This U.S. president made significant contributions to breaking up big business during the Progressive Era:
Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Why did the Progressive Era grow in the United States?
because of the negative impact of industrialization
because of the negative impact of the civil war
because industrial tycoons were appalled by the conditions of factories
because the American people were disillusioned by WWI
People who were trying to get the 19th Amendment passed were supporting what?
Right to vote for 18 year olds
Right to vote for African Americans
Right to vote for women
Right to vote for those in prison
Those who wanted to make economic reform may have been concerned about which issue?
the influence of monopolies and trusts
eliminating political machines/bosses
conservation of natural resources
ending racial discrimination
People like W.E.B. du Bois participated in the movement against what?
Racism
Women's suffrage
Child Labor
Prohibition
What was Jacob Riis reveal to the public through his book, How The Other Half Lives?
living conditions of the tenement buildings in New York
working conditions of a textile mill
food production of a meatpacking plant
medical care of soldiers in WWI
What do we call it when people walk out of their job and refuse to work?
Boycott
Strike
Strikebreakers
Walk out
Why would people go on strike?
To demand better working conditions
To demand for more money
To demand to work less hours
All of these are correct
Why were immigrants more willing to take the jobs that Americans were on strike from?
The jobs paid a lot of money.
Immigrants were desperate for money, and were willing to do the work.
Immigrants were bored with their new lives in America.
Immigrants didn't think the conditions were bad at all.
People who tried to find solutions to problems
Muckrakers
Progressives
Politicians
Crooks
Which law broke up big business trusts into small companies?
Sherman Antitrust Act
Roosevelt Antitrust Act
Trust Act
Act of breaking up trusts
Social Darwinism
the discredited theory that people are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection
The theory of survival of the fittest created by Darwin
The idea of competition between individuals
The concept of natural selection
