WorksheetsUnit 7 Progressivism and Imperialism
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 41mins
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
Fourteenth
Nineteenth
Prohibition
Suffrage
What is the name of a writer who exposes wrongdoing?
suffrage
referendum
reporter
muckraker
What is another word for: the right to vote; a major goal of women reformers?
initiative
segregation
suffrage
reform
Which word means money one had to pay in order to vote? This was designed to prevent black Americans from voting.
poll tax
grandfather clause
Jim Crow laws
debt patronage
Who won the 1912 Presidential election?
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Upton Sinclair
This is the procedure by which citizens can propose a law.
suffrage
recall
referendum
initiative
This is the national banking system which began in 1913.
Clayton AntiTrust Act
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Square Deal
President Theodore Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big business was known as the _______.
Square Deal
NAACP
Seventeenth Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
This was the organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality.
Progressive Movement
NAACP
NAWSA
Niagara Movement
This is the book that exposed the meatpacking industry's terrible practices.
The Jungle
The Sinclair
Chicago Exposed
The Desert
President Wilson's effort to make existing anti-trust laws even stricter was the _____.
Big Business Act of 1914
Monopoly
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof..."
The text is an excerpt from which amendment?
16th
17th
18th
19th
Journalists called muckrakers and urban photographers exposed people
to the plight of the unfortunate in hopes of sparking reform.
the difficulties entrepreneurs faced in hopes of sparking reform.
to the plight of the unfortunate in hopes of sparking a social purge of the weak.
the difficulties millionaires faced in hopes of sparking reform.
"Be it enacted by... Congress... That no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, any article or... product of any mine or quarry situated in the United States, in which... children under the age of sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work..."
This quote reflects the public's support for the -
control of the mining industry
abolition of child labor
regulation of product transportation
limitation of foreign trade
~Upton Sinclair exposed the unhealthy practices of Chicago's meat-packing plants
~Ida Tarbell revealed the dishonest business tactics of Rockefeller's Standard Oil
Company
~Jacob Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives, showing the conditions of the residents of
New York City tenements
What was the impact of these muckraking activities during the early 1900s?
Society changed in response to their promotion of Social Darwinism
Voters agreed to let big business owner create more profitable monopolies
Reports of their works in publications abroad caused a decline in immigration
Public reaction to their books led to new laws addressing the abuses of industrialization
In 1916, Congress established a new federal agency "which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the
enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."
Which agency does this excerpt refer?
National Park Service
Civilian Conservation Corps
Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Homeland Security
"I hold that a corporation does ill if it seeks profit in restricting production... or seeking to achieve monopoly by illegal... treatment of its competitors... If, on the other hand, a corporation seeks profit sole by... treating the public... and its rivals fairly: then such a corporation is behaving well. It is an instrumentality of civilization operating to promote abundance by cheapening the cost of living so as to improve conditions everywhere throughout the whole community." ~ Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, 1913
The main strategy that President Roosevelt's administration used to stop the type of business practices criticized in the excerpt was to ~
establish the Federal Reserve System to regulate the money supply
urge the Interstate Commerce Commission to decrease corporate regulations
use the Sherman Antitrust Act to ensure competition in industry
lobby Congress to loosen restrictions of foreign exports
Which statement describes a referendum?
petition that indicates the public's support for a vote on a bill
opportunity for the public to accept or reject a proposed bill
removal of a public official from office at the hands of the electorate
casting of votes in a confidential manner
Northern Europe
South America
This is an economic practice where the government does NOT try to control the economy. (Hands off)
Capitalism
Laissez Faire
Social Darwinism
Monopoly
The belief that the rich were chosen by god to be rich and should therefore share their wealth.
Gospel of Wealth
laissez faire
capitalism
Social Darwinism
This is a belief that the rich are wealthy because they are strong and the poor are weak.
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Laissez Faire
Monopoly
This is the control of an entire or most of an industry by one company.
laissez faire
capitalism
monopoly
patent
This occurs when a company controls everything from raw materials to the distribution of the product.
horizontal integration
vertical integration
trust
monopoly
The system in which the economy is based on profit and private property.
capitalism
social darwinism
gospel of wealth
gilded age
This is the idea that industrialists exploited workers, the environment, and corrupted the government.
captains of industry
robber barons
horizontal merger
trusts
Philanthropists, successful industrialists, ....
gave millions to charity
combined to drive small industries out of business
criticized unfair business practices
protested laissez faire capitalism
What is owning all the businesses in a particular field?
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Trust
Antitrust
_______ is when workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet their demands.
labor unions
lockouts
strike
sweatshop
Anarchist
The Bull-Moose Candidate was most associated with?
Progressive
Populist
Greenback
Anti-Masonic
Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle encouraged what to take place?
More people joining the work force
Legislation to make meat packing safer and cleaner
Immigration into large cities
New sewage lines to be built in cities
Populist demands reflected the concerns of which group?
small farmers
big business
ranchers
railroad workers
Which social reformer opened the Hull House (Settlement Homes)?
Rosa Parks
Ida B Wells
Jane Addams
Helen Jackson
What are Jim Crow Laws?
A legal basis for discrimination against African Americans
Laws put in place to manage immigration
Legislation to support farmers in the West
A set of trusts that controlled most of the railroads
Reforms in big business are characteristic of what era?
Gilded Age
Progressive Era
New Deal
Roaring 20s
Which group used violence and fear tactics to prevent non-whites from voting?
Progressives
Ku Klux Klan
White Knights of Labor
Bull-Moose Party
What was the purpose of poll taxes in the late-1800s and early-1900s?
to fund anti-discrimination organizations
to prevent African Americans from buying homes
to prevent African Americans from voting
to fund the construction of southern factories
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois both agreed that
racial issues would gradually resolve themselves.
monopolies were bad for society.
education for African-Americans is the key to racial change.
all people should be able to immigrate to where ever they desire.
The practice of stronger nations extending their control over weaker countries and territories is
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
One cause of U.S. imperialism was
Militarism
Alliances
Spanish Treachery
Desire to gain more land and natural resources
Why did the United States acquire Hawaii?
The US wanted volcanoes
To use the islands as a naval base, and for its sugar
to create a naval base during World War II
to assist Queen Liliuokalani take control of the islands
This cartoon is an example of:
Miitarism
Yellow Journalism
Black Journalism
Alliances
What was a result of headlines like the one above?
World War I begin
The Spanish-American War
The US entered World War I
The Union defeated the Confederacy
What were the two main locations of fighting during the Spanish-American War?
Alaska and Hawaii
Puerto Rico and Guam
Cuba and the Philippines
Spain and the United States
What was one of the main goals of the Labor Movement during the Progressive Era?
To increase the working hours
To decrease wages for workers
To improve working conditions
To restrict immigration
Which policy gave US the right to be the "policemen of the Western Hemisphere"
Roosevelt Corollary
Good Neighbor Policy
Open Door Policy
Marshall Plan
Why did Theodore Roosevelt help support a revolt against Columbia?
Columbia refused to comply with trade agreements
He wanted to establish a naval base in Columbia
He wanted to establish a colony in Columbia
He wanted to build the Panama Canal
Why did the US acquire Hawaii, create the Open Door Policy, and fight in the Spanish-American War?
to establish military alliances with other nations
to gain overseas resources & become a global power
to begin the policy of manifest destiny
to support Isolationism
________________was a widely held belief in the 19th century United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.
Imperialism
Annexation
Monroe Doctrine
Manifest Destiny
What is the "White Man's Burden"?
A belief in "cultural superiority"
A philosophy related to Manifest Destiny
Taft's foreign policy approach
A belief in white privilege
Which of the following was NOT a motivating factor of imperialism?
Establish naval bases around the world
Expand to new world markets
Slavery
Spread American influence & democracy
__________warned against the establishment of any additional European colonies in Latin America.
Roosevelt Corollary
Monroe Doctrine
Woodrow Wilson
William H. Taft
Which president said “speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” The U.S. Navy is the “big stick” he is referring to.
Woodrow Wilson
William H. Taft
Teddy Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
This gave every country equal access to trade with China.
Boxer Rebellion
Open Door Policy
Modernization
Sphere of Influence
What was NOT a factor in the annexation of Hawaii?
Tariffs on sugar imports
American settlers' economic interests
Queen limiting American's political power
The Hawaiian people agreeing to be annexed
Another cause of the Spanish-American war was the sinking of the __________ in Havana harbor.
USS Maine
USS Arizona
USS Pennsylvania
USS Iowa
Which of the following is not a territory that the US acquired through war?
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Guam
Philippines
The discovery of which natural resource helped to spark change in how the purchase of Alaska was viewed?
gold
iron
timber
fish
Famous turning point American victory in Spanish-American War.
Puerto Rico
Manila Bay
San Juan Hill
Spanish-American War
Mosquito born illness responsible for thousands of death in Panama Canal Zone.
Yellow Fever
Polio
Zika Virus
Hay Fever
Completed in 1914 connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
Suez Canal
Big Dig
Panama Revolution
Panama Canal
Leader of the American Expeditionary Force sent to Mexico to hunt down famous Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
Theodore Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
John J. Pershing
Alfred T. Mahan
Who was the U.S. Secretary of State responsible for opening trade with China in the Open Door Policy?
John J. Pershing
John Hay
Joseph Pulitzer
Theodore Roosevelt
The purchase of this land was known as Seward's Folly. It is highlighted on this map.
Alaska
Hawaii
Canada
the Philippines
The U.S. won this Caribbean country during the Spanish American War. Identify the country highlighted in the map
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Panama
Haiti
