WorksheetsUNIT TEST: PROGRESSIVE ERA - U.S. HISTORY
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 15mins
This photograph shows a train station in the early 1900s. Which of the following allowed for the segregation shown in this photograph?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The Fourteenth Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Fifteenth Amendment
This excerpt describes the circumstances in a meatpacking factory. There would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was moldy and white – it would be dosed with borax and glycerin, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption. —Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906 6. Which of the following best describes the impact of The Jungle on the United States?
A. It uncovered hazardous working conditions and led to the passing of new labor laws.
B. It exposed the unsanitary living conditions that immigrants endured in tenement housing.
C. It informed consumers about the poor quality standards in the meatpacking industry.
D. It exposed corrupt government officials who were accepting bribes from corporations.
E. It prompted the federal government to take responsibility for public health and welfare.
Examine the sequence and answer the question that follows. End of Reconstruction → ? → Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson Which event best completes the sequence?
Growth of labor unions
Implementation of segregation laws
Expansion of women's suffrage
Rise of the Populist Party
Which action was taken by the U.S. government to address the problems described in this excerpt?
Passage of the Pendleton Act
Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment
Signing of the Child Labor Act
This photograph shows Yosemite National Park at the end of the nineteenth century. Complete the sentences by selecting the correct answers. The concept of a "national park" is an American innovation aimed at protecting __________ and grew out of the conservation movement that began in the nineteenth century. When Yellowstone was designated a national park in 1872, it became the first such park in the world. In 1916, the Organic Act officially established the National Park Service, a federal bureau responsible for __________________________ national parks and monuments.
natural resources; managing
wildlife; destroying
urban areas; privatizing
historical sites; selling
Determine whether each example reflects the procedure of initiative, referendum, or recall. Select the correct answer in each row.
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
This photograph reveals the following about working conditions for children in the early 1900s:
Children often worked in harsh and unsafe environments.
Children worked only a few hours a week in safe conditions.
Child labor was rare and strictly prohibited by law.
Children were paid high wages for their work.
Which group was founded to fight for the civil rights of African Americans?
NAACP
Department of Labor
Settlement House movement
Bull Moose Party
Which statements describe key components of the Populist Party's platform?
Implementing immigration quotas
Regulating railroad shipping fees
Establishing a national parks system
Privatizing the banking system
Standardizing the coinage of silver
Which reason contributed to the trend shown in this table?
The number of factories using assembly lines decreased.
A progressive movement worked to stop the use of child labor.
A political movement worked to lower taxes for businesses.
The number of people joining labor unions decreased.
Working conditions were terrible and as result...
Robber barons lived in slums.
Tenements were built.
Labor unions were formed.
Employers voluntarily started making improvements to the workplace.
What set of laws is supported by Plessy v. Ferguson?
Jim Crow Laws
Black Codes
Slave Codes
Prohibition
What was one way the decision described in this passage affected the United States in the first half of the twentieth century?
Minorities were not allowed to attend schools with whites.
Poll taxes in federal elections were ruled unconstitutional.
Affirmative action programs were ruled unconstitutional.
Minorities were not allowed to join the military.
People who were trying to get the 19th Amendment passed were supporting what?
Right to vote for 18 year olds
Right to vote for African Americans
Right to vote for women
Right to vote for those in prison
What does Suffrage mean?
Right to Learn
Right to Vote
Right to Free Speech
Right to Join Military
True or False: The Populist movement was fueled by farmers and citizens who felt they did not have an adequate voice in government.
True
False
"The excerpt below is from a speech delivered by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908. We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields and obstructing navigation. Source: Public Domain / U.S. Department of the Interior "
How did criticism like this affect the United States during the turn of the 20th century?
It provided support for the National Park Service that protected public lands.
It provided support for laws that restricted the hunting of endangered animals.
It led to the regulation of energy usage by limiting the importation of foreign fuel.
It led to the regulation of large corporations by the Environmental Protection Agency
