WorksheetsQuiz on Historical Events and Figures
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Who were the muckrakers?
People who cleaned the streets
People who exposed many problems publicly through writing
People who worked in factories
People who built skyscrapers
What did Upton Sinclair expose?
Problems with the education system
Problems with the meat packing industry
Problems with the transportation system
Problems with the banking industry
What was a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
New laws for child labor
Building codes for fire escapes
Improved wages for workers
More factories were built
What did Jacob Riis expose?
Tenement living
Factory conditions
School overcrowding
Political corruption
What is the definition of suffrage?
Right to education
Right to vote
Right to work
Right to free speech
Which amendment allowed women the right to vote?
15th
18th
19th
21st
What did W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP do?
Founded the NAACP
Started the labor union movement
Created new schools
Built hospitals
What is the Square Deal?
A new type of currency
Programs of progressive reforms to protect common people from big business
A new transportation system
A new type of housing
What was a cause of child labor in factories?
To learn new skills
To survive in poverty, families had children go to work
To help build new cities
To support the education system
What is the definition of a tenement?
A luxury apartment
A run down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
A new type of school
A government building
What did TR fail to support?
Civil Rights
Women's Suffrage
Prohibition
Labor Unions
What is another name for the Progressive Era?
Gilded Age
Industrial Age
Renaissance
Reconstruction
What did the Tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist company lead to?
Building codes requiring fire escapes
Child labor laws
Women's voting rights
Prohibition
What was one goal of the Progressive Era?
Protecting social welfare
Expanding territories
Increasing tariffs
Promoting isolationism
