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Progressive Era

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do we call it when people walk out of their job and refuse to work?

a)

Boycott

b)

Strike

c)

Strikebreakers

d)

Walk out

2.

Why were strikes unsuccessful?

a)

A boss does not need employees to run a business.

b)

Employees did not want to strike.

c)

Strikebreakers would fill the jobs of those on strike.

d)

What's a strike?

3.

Why would people go on strike?

a)

To demand better working conditions

b)

To demand for more money

c)

To demand to work less hours

d)

All of these are correct

4.

Who made the least amount of money working in factories?

a)

African American Men

b)

Women

c)

Children

d)

Immigrant men

5.

What did the 16th Amendment do?

a)

Allowed the government to tax people's income

b)

Allowed the government to relocate immigrants

c)

Allowed the government the right to vote

d)

Allowed people the right to vote

6.

What did the 17th Amendment do?

a)

Allowed the government to tax their income

b)

Allowed people to vote

c)

Allowed citizens the right to vote for their senators

d)

Allowed citizens to vote for their governors

7.

Who was president during the progressive era?

a)

William McKinley

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

John F. Kennedy

8.

Choose all of the people who were activists for African American's rights during the progressive era.

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

W.E.B Dubois

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Frederick Douglas

9.

Booker T. Washington was famous for founding the ____.

a)

18th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

c)

Tuskegee Institute

d)

NASCAR

10.

The ____ Amendment stated that the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within the US is hereby prohibited.

a)

19th

b)

13th

c)

15th

d)

18th

11.

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

a)

18th

b)

19th

c)

15th

d)

13th

12.

The 19th Amendment was passed in ___ allowing women the right to vote.

a)

1900

b)

1998

c)

1920

d)

1880

13.

What does this picture represent?

a)

Child Labor

b)

Women's Suffrage

c)

Prohibition

14.

Anyone who exposed unsafe working conditions

a)

muckrakers

b)

laborers

c)

Scabs

d)

sabotage

15.

Groups or workers that joined together to form organized unions

a)

muckrakers

b)

laborers

c)

Scabs

d)

sabotage

16.

Worked against the rules of a union

a)

muckrakers

b)

laborers

c)

Scabs

d)

sabotage

17.

Destroying something to make sure it doesn't happen

a)

muckrakers

b)

laborers

c)

Scabs

d)

sabotage

18.

Founder of the Hull house - wanted better lives for women and immigrants

a)

Jane Adams

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Julia Tutwiler

19.

Founder of the Red Cross

a)

Jane Adams

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Julia Tutwiler

20.

Innovator for the education for African Americans and women - fought for education and prison reform

a)

Jane Adams

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Julia Tutwiler

21.

19th Amendment

a)

Right to bear arms

b)

Suffrage (right to vote) for black men

c)

Suffrage (right to vote) for women

d)

Search and seizure, must have search warrant

22.

Prohibition/ Volstead Act

a)

18

b)

28

c)

21

d)

22

23.

Congress can tax income

a)

14

b)

12

c)

16

d)

8

24.

Election of Senators

a)

16

b)

17

c)

22

d)

25

25.

Who were the muckrakers?

a)

politicians

b)

everyday people

c)

journalists and authors

d)

community organizers