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WorksheetsCH 18 Progressive Review
Total questions: 57
Worksheet time: 44mins
Which movement is Susan B. Anthony most closely associated with?
Harlem Renaissance
Women’s Suffrage
Muckraker Movement
Temperance Movement
An important Progressive reformer who became President of the US. He helped pass through many progressive reforms.
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Gives voters the power to remove elected officials.
recall
referendum
initiative
tar & feather
Wilson supported the _____, allowing the government to supervise the banking system and indirectly _____ for the entire nation.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC); regulate unfair trade practices
Federal Reserve System; control interest rates
Clayton Antitrust Act; regulate income levels
Underwood Tariff; control monetary flow
His electric light bulb allowed people to work after sunset.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Edison
Thomas Paine
Thomas Hobbes
Author of the Jungle, a book that exposed the bad conditions in the meatpacking industry:
Ida Tarbell
Booker T. Washington
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Founded the Hull House to assist new immigrants in Chicago:
Jane Addams
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. DuBois
Jerry Lee Lewis
A belief that only the smartest and strongest in society survive.
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel
muckraking
Progressivism
What was the significance of Teddy Roosevelt’s Conservation Movement?
Preserve millions of acres of wilderness land such as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park
Decrease in taxes, increase in military spending, decrease in social programs
Developed federal laws restricting immigrants from communist and socialist countries, Western Europe
Creates the Environmental Protection Agency, conducts environmental research, and to assists state and local governments in the clean-up of polluted sites
Wilson's program to destroy monopolies and limit government power was called _______
New Freedom
New Nationalism
Power Destruction Initiative (PDI)
A Return to Normal Nationalism
Wilson signed the _____ in 1913 that reduced tariffs and provided for levying an _____ on earnings of individuals.
Underwood Tariff Act; income tax
Tariff Elimination Act; anti-trust law
Wilson Tariff Act; uplifting raise
Progressive Tariff Reform; unfair trade practice protection
Amendment gave women the right to vote
(a)
He was perhaps the first President to side with a union during a strike:
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
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:
Roosevelt Corollary
Nationalism
Imperial Warning
Muckrakers like Ida Tarbell hoped to
oversee the Tennessee Valley Authority
stop ratification of the 18th Amendment
expose abuses in business and corruption in politics
improved methods of mass production
What was the purpose of the American Federation of Labor?
Provided education, medical care, pension, and mortgage loans for military veterans
A political group that fought for the full social and economic equality for African Americans
Journalist who brought attention to the social and political problems of the early 1900’s
A labor union, designed to convince employers to give workers shorter workdays and better working conditions.
Allows people to put laws directly on the ballot by collecting signatures on petitions.
initiative
referendum
recall
Galveston plan
Examples of Progressivism in the federal government include laws passed to _____ and _____.
protect workers; regulate business
encourage child labor; progress business interests
regulate income; solve poverty
end racial discrimination; encourage religious acceptance
What does the power of referendum give voters the right to do?
select a candidate to run in the general election
to propose a law by getting signatures on a petition
remove elected officials from public office
to approve or reject a law (especially one that imposes taxes)
Writers that helped spread Progressive's ideas. Wrote about muck that was going on.
Rakers of muck
muckrakers
raking up the muck writers
journalist
What did the 16th Amendment do?
Allowed the government to tax people's income
Allowed the government to relocate immigrants
Allowed the government the right to vote
Allowed people the right to vote
What did the 17th Amendment do?
Allowed the government to tax their income
Allowed people to vote
Allowed citizens the right to vote for their senators
Allowed citizens to vote for their governors
Progressives tended to be __ (select all that apply).
white
middle-class
women
educated
__________ were journalists who exposed the "hidden" problems of Gilded Age society.
Yellow journalists
muckrackers
Investigative journalists
Jingoism
Around 1920, the number of children aged 10 to 15 in the industrial workforce began to decline for which of the following reasons?
Introduction of the minimum wage made child labor uneconomical.
The American birth rate declined, thus reducing the number of children available to work.
Factory owners advocated state child labor laws.
States began to require children to attend school until a certain age and to limit the ages at which they could be employed.
Between 1890 and 1910, the United States most strongly pursued a foreign policy promoting
isolationism in world affairs
close military alliances with Great Britain and France
a sphere of influence in Africa
commercial involvement in both Latin America and eastern Asia
a campaign to slow the spread of socialism in eastern Europe
What was the Square Deal?
TAFT's promise to favor laborers in different trade agreements and to attack corporations
Roosevelt's promise to the American people to to be fair to all; it was comprised of controlling corporations, protecting consumers, and conservationism
Wilson's program of American conservation that promised to conserve America's wilderness
Roosevelt's agreement with foreign countries that he would prevent countries in the Eastern Hemisphere from getting involved in their affairs
Which of the following best explains what happened in the election of 1912?
It is rare for an American political party to retain control of the executive branch for three consecutive terms. The American people wanted change and voted in a new political party.
William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson both ran for president as Democrats and split the Democratic vote, allowing for a third party candidate to be elected president for the first time in American history
William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, a former Republican, split the "Republican" vote, allowing for the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, to be elected president
Eugene V. Debs was elected president as Wilson, Taft, and Roosevelt all split the Republican vote
My foreign policy was the Dollar Diplomacy
Taft
Wilson
Roosevelt
My foreign policy was Big Stick diplomacy
Taft
Roosevelt
Wilson
I passed the Meat Inspection Act
Taft
Wilson
Roosevelt
I passed the Clayton Anti trust to strengthen the Sherman anit trust act
Taft
Roosevelt
Wilson
A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900-1917) was to....
stimulate the economy
support government control of factory production
encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe
correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society
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
Suffrage is -
the right to vote
the right to suffer
the right to live
the right to speak
Conservation is-
when a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change
protection of natural resources
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people
Reforming means
Changing something for the better
Controlling something
Buying something
Approving Something
What do you call a change to the Constitution?
amendment
introduction
preamble
articles
Which amendment is most closely connected to the Temperance Movement?
16th
17th
18th
19th
Third party that believes in Democratic government, but believes that the government should provide free healthcare and college tuition.
Communist
Green
Socialist
Libertarian
Who pioneered the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Cyrus Field
These organizations tried to improve working conditions for workers-
Political Bosses
Labor Unions
Political Machines
Farmers
A refusal to work (most successful method)
strikes
lockouts
collective bargaining
black lists
Negotiations between representatives of labor and management to reach an agreement.
black lists
collective bargaining
lockouts
strikes
Formed to improve working conditions
unions
lunch clubs
specialization
riots
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was most closely tied with:
abolition
feminism
conservation
immigration
The figurehead of the birth control movement and MOST known for her work was:
Margaret Sanger
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Helen Keller
Teddy Roosevelt
Helped found the Society of American Indians
Dr. Carlos Montezuma
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
