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WorksheetsProgressive Era Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who coined the term 'muckraker'?
Ida Tarbell
Theodore Roosevelt
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Which book exposed the unclean procedures in the Chicago meatpacking industry?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The History of the Standard Oil Company
The Jungle
How the Other Half Lives
Who wrote a series of articles exposing Standard Oil's unfair business practices?
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riis
Jane Addams
Which muckraker documented the living conditions of the urban poor?
Jane Addams
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
What was the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
Racial discrimination was unconstitutional
Separate but equal was constitutional
Jim Crow laws were abolished
Blacks gained voting rights
What did the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution do?
Provided for the direct election of Senators
Abolished slavery
Ended child labor
Established women's suffrage
What did the initiative/referendum allow voters to do?
Elect United States Senators
Remove politicians from office
Suggest and approve laws directly
Vote on an issue directly
Which Progressive reform set a minimum age for employment and restricted child labor?
Minimum wage laws
Work site inspections
Worker's compensation laws
Child labor laws
Who was a key figure in the conservation movement during the Progressive Era?
Theodore Roosevelt
John Muir
Gifford Pinchot
All of the above
What is the economic philosophy that opposes government intervention?
Laissez-faire
Progressive
Muckraker
Recall
What is the right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office?
Laissez-faire
Progressive
Muckraker
Recall
What puts or changes into an improved form or condition?
Initiative
Conservation
Referendum
Reform
What is the practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature?
Initiative
Conservation
Referendum
Reform
What is the power reserved to the voters to propose legislation, by petition, that would enact, amend or repeal a City Charter or Code provision?
Initiative
Conservation
Referendum
Reform
What is the right to vote?
Suffrage
Social Gospel
Civil Responsibility
Eugenics
What are a group of people who are against immigrants called?
Suffrage
Nativists
Laissez-faire
Conservation
What problems did Progressive Reformers hope to solve?
Problems in the areas of healthcare and government, personal life, social life, and air conditions.
Problems in the areas of media, business management, child welfare, and living conditions.
Problems in the areas of politics and government, business, social welfare, and labor conditions.
All of the above.
Which of these was a major goal of Jane Addams's Settlement House movement in Chicago?
The founding of women's colleges
The establishment of public libraries
The assimilation of immigrants
The introduction of prison reform
Which statement best summarizes President Theodore Roosevelt's views about conservation?
Environmental issues are best decided by the private sector.
Unlimited access to natural resources is the key to business growth.
Wilderness areas and their resources should be protected.
Decisions about the use of natural resources should be left to the states.
This cartoon shows which Gilded Age problem?
Americans believed that their national government was too powerful.
Americans believed in "survival of the fittest".
Americans believed in equality of the sexes.
Americans believed that big business controlled their government.
