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WESTWARD EXPANSION AND PROGRESSIVE ERA

Total questions: 86

Worksheet time: 53mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

These were journalists who wrote book and articles that exposed corruption in business and government:

a)

Progressives

b)

Muckrakers

c)

Sensationalists

d)

Investigative reporters

2.

 Which best describes Social Darwinism vs. Social Gospel?  

a)

Lion vs Lamb

b)

evolution vs. creationism 

c)

DuBois vs Washington

d)

survival of the fittest vs. the fight for social justice

3.

This time period focused on social and political reforms in the United States in the early 1900s:

a)

Civil War Era

b)

Industrialization Era

c)

Progressive Era

d)

Reconstruction Era

4.

This U.S. president made significant contributions to breaking up big business during the Progressive Era:

a)

Howard Taft

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

William McKinley

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

5.

People who were trying to get the 19th Amendment passed were supporting what?

a)

Right to vote for 18 year olds

b)

Right to vote for African Americans

c)

Right to vote for women

d)

Right to vote for those in prison

6.

Those who wanted to make economic reform may have been concerned about which issue?

a)

the influence of monopolies and trusts

b)

eliminating political machines/bosses

c)

conservation of natural resources

d)

ending racial discrimination

7.

Someone who uses their position as an elected official to engage in fraudulent activities could be accused of:

a)

being corrupt

b)

being ambitious

c)

being controlling

d)

being monopolistic

8.

People like W.E.B. du Bois participated in the movement against what?

a)

Racism

b)

Women's suffrage

c)

Child Labor

d)

Prohibition

9.

What does the power of referendum give voters the right to do?

a)

select a candidate to run in the general election

b)

to propose a law by getting signatures on a petition

c)

remove elected officials from public office

d)

to approve or reject a law (especially one that imposes taxes)

10.
A coalition is ______.
a)
another name for a political party
b)
 several groups working together
c)
a group that works for the right to vote
d)
a group that works for women's rights
11.

The period between 1900 and the start of World War I is known as the

a)

Gilded Age

b)

Roaring 20s

c)

Progressive Era

d)

Imperialism

12.

writers who raked up the 'muck' or dirt of American life.

a)

muckrakers

b)

imperialists

c)

progressives

d)

idealists

13.

one of the founders of the NAACP

a)

MLK

b)

W.E.B. Dubois

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Ida B. Wells

14.

A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900-1917) was to....

a)

stimulate the economy

b)

support government control of factory production

c)

encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

d)

correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society

15.

Who wrote The History of Standard Oil, a book which describes how John D. Rockefeller used ruthless business practices in the oil industry?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Lincoln Steffens

16.

16th Amendment

a)

Women's Suffrage

b)

Direct Election of Senators

c)

Federal Income Tax

d)

Prohibition

17.

17th Amendment

a)

Women's Suffrage

b)

Direct Election of Senators

c)

Federal Income Tax

d)

Prohibition

18.

18th Amendment

a)

Women's Suffrage

b)

Direct Election of Senators

c)

Federal Income Tax

d)

Prohibition

19.

In the cartoon above, President Theodore Roosevelt is depicted doing which of the following?

a)

Standing guard to protect big business

b)

Enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

c)

Leading a government take-over of large industries

d)

Putting an end to industries that might harm the environment

20.

Another name to describe the time period between 1890-1920 where America was rapidly progressing in industrial production as well as in social and political reforms.

a)

Progressive Era

b)

Assembly line

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Monopoly

21.

The complete control of an industry by one person or company.

a)

Progressive Era

b)

Assembly line

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Monopoly

22.

The rapid growth of cities flooded by immigrants and people moving from the rural communities.

a)

urbanization

b)

Settlement house

c)

Muckraker

d)

Tenement

23.

People who moved to America (primarily in the cities) from another country in search for jobs and democratic ideals.

a)

Immigrants

b)

Muckraker

c)

Nativism

d)

Migrant Farm Workers

24.

A company of several owners (trustees) that collectively purchase their competition so that they create one large company.

a)

Labor Union

b)

Nativism

c)

Trust

d)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

25.

A law passed in 1890 that prohibited businesses to become monopolies and therefore encourage competition.

a)

Compromise of 1877

b)

Child Labor Act

c)

Trust

d)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

26.

The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants

a)

Immigrantism

b)

Nativism

c)

Naturalism

d)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

27.

An organization of workers that tries to help its members receive higher wages and have better working conditions.

a)

Labor Union

b)

Nativism

c)

Trust

d)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

28.

By using initiatives, who has a more direct influence on lawmaking?

a)

Presidents

b)

Lawyers

c)

Citizens

29.

What do reforms like initiatives, referendums, and recalls attempt to do?

a)

give the people more power over the government

b)

limit citizenship rights like voting

c)

provide low interest loans to farmers

d)

establish a system of checks and balances

30.

Suffrage is -

a)

the right to vote

b)

the right to suffer

c)

the right to live

d)

the right to speak

31.

Reforming means

a)

Changing something for the better

b)

Controlling something

c)

Buying something

d)

Approving Something

32.

Which word correctly replaces the question mark in the title of this timeline?

a)

Suffrage

b)

Abolitionist

c)

Temperance

d)

Transcendentalist

33.
_________________ was an important leader in education reform.
a)
George Whitfield
b)
Dorthea Dix
c)
Horace Mann
d)
Fredrick Douglas
34.
Which Reform movement most closely associates with the term "suffrage?"
a)
Education Reform
b)
Temperance Movement
c)
Women's Rights Movement
35.

Who was the leader of the Education Reform Movement?

a)

Hoarce Mann

b)

Sam Houston

c)

William B Travis

d)

Will Smith

36.

To restrain ones self from engaging or participating in something.

a)

Reform

b)

Abolition

c)

Temperance

d)

Abstinence

37.

A social movement against the consumption of alcohol.

a)

Reform

b)

Abolition

c)

Temprence

d)

2nd Great Awakening

38.

Booker T Washington's Job

a)

educator

b)

Fireman

c)

Officer

d)

Pilot

39.

Was Booker T. Washington a slave

a)

yes

b)

no

40.
-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education
a)
W.E.B. Du Bois
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
d)
Booker T. Washington
41.
Which person accepted social separation and believed racial equality could be achieved through vocational education?
a)
 Booker T. Washington
b)
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
c)
. W.E.B. Du Bois                               
d)
William Lloyd Douglas
42.
Which of the following believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?
a)
William Lloyd Douglas
b)
W.E.B. Du Bois
c)
George Washington     
d)
Booker T. Washington
43.
The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?
a)
Assimilation                        
b)
Civil Rights
c)
Segregation         
d)
Desegregation
44.

Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois both agreed

a)

white people are superior

b)

the telephone is the best invention

c)

Education for African-Americans is important

d)

Equal rights for all

45.

Booker T Washington

a)

was born rich

b)

equality for all

c)

believed education was not important

d)

was principal of the Tuskegee Institute

46.

WEB DuBois

a)

founded the NAACP

b)

worked in a salt mine at age 9

c)

was born in Tennessee

d)

taught job skills to African-Americans

47.

In 1909, who helped found the NAACP?

a)

Booker T Washington

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

WEB DuBois

d)

Thomas Edison

48.
According to Booker T. Washington, what would help African Americans gain equality?
a)
Learning skills and trades              
b)
Holding protests and strikes
c)
Attending meetings and elections
d)
Working longer and harder
49.

Which of the following best describes W.E.B. Du Bois’s approach to civil rights?

a)

give and take between races

b)

gradual attainment of civil rights

c)

complete civil rights immediately

d)

economic equality with social segregation

50.

Which of the following best describes Booker T. Washington’s approach to civil rights?

a)

compromise and patience

b)

persistence and noncompliance

c)

education reform and voting rights

d)

non-violent protest and political action

51.

Believed that capitalism was principle cause of racism.

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

WEB DuBois

52.

How did the Homestead Act help the nation grow?

a)

It created the Transcontinental Railroad.

b)

It moved Native Americans onto reservations.

c)

It offered free land to families who settled on the great Plains.

d)

It paid for immigrants to come to the United States.

53.

5. What did most homesteaders do for a living?

a)

farmed

b)

mined

c)

ran settlement houses

d)

worked in steel mills

54.

10. What contribution did Andrew Carnegie make to the nation's growth?

a)

built the Transcontinental Railroad

b)

developed the steel industry

c)

operated many oil refineries

d)

perfected the use of electric power

55.

14. Why did the growth of cities lead to new kinds of transportation?

a)

Having too many horses on city streets spread diseases.

b)

Farms could not meet the demand for horses to pull streetcars.

c)

People moved to rural areas and traveled to cities to work.

d)

People needed better, faster ways to get to their jobs.

56.

15. What is Samuel Gompers best known for?

a)

helping organize labor unions

b)

starting a settlement house

c)

inventing the electric elevator

d)

inventing the trolley car

57.

The process of using machines to make work easier and more efficient is known as __________.

a)

agriculture

b)

mobilization

c)

mechanization

d)

transportation

58.

The process of farming or living in a farming area is known as __________.

a)

agrarian

b)

mobilization

c)

mechanization

d)

transportation

59.

How did American industrial leaders earn great wealth during the late 1800s?

a)

by forming labor unions for workers

b)

by using mainly slave or forced labor

c)

by developing new farming techniques

d)

by creating monopolies and establishing trusts

60.

This photograph, taken in an automobile factory in 1913, BEST represents which aspect of specialized labor?

a)

Factory owners planning to expand business.

b)

Workers bargaining at a labor union meeting.

c)

Workers at an assembly line creating car parts.

d)

Consumers selecting a wide variety of products.

61.

What resulted from the advances in transportation and industry that occurred in America between the end of the Civil War and 1900?

a)

Thousands of people migrated to the West to escape the segregated South.

b)

Thousands of African-Americans migrated to the South because Reconstruction had ended.

c)

Thousands of people migrated from rural areas to Northern cities like New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.

d)

The U.S. government spent millions of dollars to complete a canal system to link Northern cities to the Mississippi River.

62.

What challenge of urbanization and industrialization is demonstrated in this photo?

a)

unfair labor practices

b)

inner-city overcrowding

c)

child labor exploitation

d)

racism and discrimination

63.

Positive Outcomes: Created New Jobs, Improved Transportation and Produced new goods.


Negative Outcomes: Loss of Natural Habitat, Pollution, and _____________


Which BEST completes the list?

a)

child labor nations

b)

women in the workforce

c)

poor working conditions

d)

the creation of highways

64.

Which group was MOST concerned with helping improve the dangerous working conditions in early-20th century industry?

a)

Populists

b)

Robber Barron

c)

Progressives

d)

Radical Republicans

65.

Andrew Carnegie brought the Bessemer process to the U.S. What did this process do? 

a)

It helped convert the telegraph into the telephone.

b)

It helped to create iron.

c)

It helped to create steel.

d)

It helped create an assembly line.

66.

A monopoly is complete control over an industry. Which industry did Rockefeller monopolize?

a)

steel

b)

coal

c)

oil

d)

grain

67.

True or False; Pictures like this happened in the Gilded Age because our government was Laissez-Faire.

a)

True

b)

False

68.

What is the purpose of a Union?

a)

To achieve better rights for workers

b)

To give the workers a way to blow off steam after work

c)

A way for the business to control workers

d)

A way to make sure workers stay happy

69.

True or False; Strikes are the most powerful tool that Unions can use.

a)

True

b)

False

70.

someone who makes new things

a)

heroes

b)

inventors

c)

businesses

71.

relating to the people

a)

piecr

b)

business

c)

popular

d)

natural

72.

________ is relating to the city.

a)

Rural

b)

Urban

c)

Country

d)

Agricultural

73.

__________ is relating to the country.

a)

Urban

b)

Cities

c)

Municipal

d)

Rural

74.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a monopoly?

a)

Andrew Carnegie owned the steel companies.

b)

John D. Rockefeller owned the oil companies.

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt owned the railroad companies

d)

Union Pacific Railroad owned one of the railroads.

75.

Who had the Oil Industry monopoly?

a)

J.P. Morgan

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Teddy Roosevelt

d)

Andrew Carnegie

76.

Which entrepreneur created the Pittsburgh Steel Monopoly

a)

Labor Unions

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

Albert Einstein

77.

What was the name of the process that was an easier and quicker way to make steel?

a)

The Ford method

b)

The Bessemer method

c)

Bridges

d)

The Firestone method

78.
President Jackson sent soldiers to remove the ____ to the Indian Territory.
a)
Cherokee
b)
Iroquois
c)
Souix
d)
Red Hawks
79.
The Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. should protect the Cherokee and their lands in 
a)
Kentucky
b)
Tennessee
c)
Georgia
d)
Kansas
80.
The Cherokee took the state of ____________ to the Supreme Court.
a)
Alabama
b)
Georgia
c)
Florida
d)
Lousiana
81.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Indians to move
a)
to Oklahoma
b)
to Florida
c)
to the Louisiana Purchase
d)
to Canada
82.
_________  in 1830 authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi river to lands in the west.
a)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
b)
Worcester v. Georgia
c)
Indian Removal Act
d)
None of the above
83.
Which of the following was the Cherokee’s 800 mile march to the indian territory where ¼ of the Cherokee tribe died on the march to the land?
a)
Second Seminole War
b)
Trail of Tears
c)
Blackhawk
d)
Cherokee resistance
84.
The United States government decided to move the Native Americans from their land to the
a)
North
b)
South
c)
East
d)
West
85.

Who was the president that ordered the Indian removal act?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

James Madison

d)

George Washington

86.

1. The United States Army forced Native American tribes to move ______ of the ________River.

a)

North of the Broad River

b)

South of the Rio Grand River

c)

West of the Mississippi River

d)

East of the Mississippi River

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