WorksheetsProgressivism Quiz H (Part 1)
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which statement best describes the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?
Only allowed skilled workers to join
Was organized by Samuel Gompers
Supported the idea of Socialism
Believed that private businesses should run industries
A direct result of rapid immigration and urban growth in the early 1900s was the rise of which local power structure?
Political machines
The spoils system
The civil service system
Primary elections
How did the 19th Amendment expand democracy in the United States?
Granting women the right to vote
Allowing people of each state to elect their senators
Establishing direct primary elections
Enabling voters to remove officials from office
What was a main purpose for forming labor unions during the Progressive Era?
Protect the common worker
Protect entrepreneurs
Stop immigration
Lengthen working hours
Jim Crow laws separated people primarily based on which characteristic?
Religion
Culture
Ethnicity
Race
Trustbusters, muckrakers, and suffragists were all associated with which broader historical movement?
Populism
Progressivism
Isolationism
Federalism
What did the 18th Amendment ban nationwide?
Child labor
Alcohol manufacture, sale, and transport
Poll taxes
Literacy tests for voting
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leading activists for which reform?
Temperance
Child labor laws
Women’s suffrage
Prohibition enforcement
Which reform movement sought to ban alcohol?
Temperance movement
Settlement house movement
Conservation movement
Abolition movement
Which list best represents commonly cited negative effects of rapid industrialization?
Lower prices, cleaner cities, safer factories, stronger unions
Urban crowding, unsafe conditions, child labor, political corruption
More leisure time, universal healthcare, shorter workweeks, equal pay
Expanded rural life, decreased immigration, fewer factories, stronger farms
Progressive Era labor reforms commonly reduced the workday from which longer schedule to which shorter schedule?
From 16 hours to 12 hours
From 12 hours to 8 hours
From 10 hours to 6 hours
From 14 hours to 9 hours
In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed problems in which industry?
Textile mills
Coal mining
Meatpacking
Railroads
What was the most prominent political machine in New York during the Progressive Era?
Tweed Ring
Tammany Hall
Bosses’ Union
City Reform League
Who was a famous leader associated with New York’s political machine?
Samuel Gompers
Theodore Roosevelt
Boss Tweed
Jacob Riis
Political machines most often targeted which group for bribes and votes?
Large factory owners
Recent immigrants in cities
Rural farmers in the West
College professors
Which statement correctly identifies the 16th Amendment?
Allows Americans to directly elect U.S. senators
Authorizes a federal income tax
Bans the sale of alcohol
Grants women the right to vote
Which statement correctly identifies the 17th Amendment?
Allows direct election of U.S. senators by the people
Authorizes federal income tax
Bans poll taxes in federal elections
Establishes presidential term limits
Which institution is responsible for regulating bank deposits and interest rates in the United States?
Department of the Treasury
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Reserve
Comptroller of the Currency
What was a key impact of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
Repeal of antitrust laws
Implementation of workplace safety laws
Expansion of child labor
Privatization of fire departments
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
Frederick Douglass
Who is best known for speaking out directly against discrimination and advocating immediate civil rights?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Mark Twain
Which leader argued that African Americans should have political, civil, and social equality?
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
Marcus Garvey
Which organization was founded to advance civil rights and is linked to W.E.B. DuBois?
Tuskegee Institute
Freedmen’s Bureau
NAACP
Universal Negro Improvement Association
