WorksheetsEOC Spot Check Progressive Era Overview
Total questions: 5
Worksheet time: 5mins
These movements sought mostly different objectives in U.S. History. Choose the statements that describe either the Populist or the Progressive movement.
Late 19th Century
Rural Farmers
Farmers Alliance
Free Silver Movement
Early 20th Century
Uptan Sinclair
Urban Industrial
Muckrakers
Voters submitting petitions for the recall of Seattle mayor Hiram Gill, December 1910.
Progressive-era reformers advocated the use of initiatives, referendums, and recall votes because they believed
more Americans needed to be directly involved in the political process.
small farmers and small businessmen were becoming too powerful.
the spread of communism was threatening America's political and religious institutions.
the "political machines" in rural America were dominating the legislative process.
The Supreme Court decision in Standard Oil Co. of NJ v U.S (1911) would have had the biggest impact on which form of business organization?
companies run as monopolies
providers of natural resources
businesses who hired union workers
businesses who fired workers belonging to unions
1862: born into slavery
1880s: teacher and writer in Memphis, Tennessee
1895: wrote The Red Record about lynchings in the South
1909: one of the founders of the NAACP
Who is being described?
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. DuBois
Madam C.J. Walker
Octavia E. Butler
This photograph by Jacob Riis (1889) reflects the conditions that would have been found in
the West.
the rural South.
industrial areas.
Indian Reservations.
