WorksheetsProgressive Era Review
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
Directions: Use the provided definitions and information to understand the key people, organizations, and concepts of the Progressive Era. Match each term to its definition.
Progressives
Reformers who wanted to solve problems from fast urban growth, stop corruption, and limit corporate power for the public good
Muckrakers
Bold investigative journalists and novelists who exposed corruption, poverty, and injustice, bringing the "muck" to the surface
Political Machines
Powerful organizations that used legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected, including buying votes and stuffing ballot boxes
Bribe
Money paid to get someone to do something against the law
Directions: Use the provided definitions and information to understand the key people, organizations, and concepts of the Progressive Era. Match each term to its definition.
Kickback
An illegal payment of money made in return for a favor or service
Trust
A giant corporation or group of companies that controls an industry or achieves a monopoly by driving out or buying competitors
Trust-busting
A Progressive Era policy where presidents like Theodore Roosevelt challenged large corporations using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Tenement
Filthy, overcrowded apartments or neighborhoods in the city infested with poverty and crime
Capitalism
An economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines costs and wages
Which term matches the definition: A system in which the government owns and operates a country's industry or owns all the means of production?
Socialism
Capitalism
Trust
Kickback
Directions: Use the provided definitions and information to understand the key people, organizations, and concepts of the Progressive Era. Match each term to its definition.
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)
A tragic New York garment factory fire where 146 workers died after exits were locked, highlighting the need for worker safety laws and fire escape regulations
Workers' Compensation Laws
Laws that guarantee a portion of lost wages to employees injured on the job
Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Laws enacted after Upton Sinclair's The Jungle exposed unsanitary meatpacking conditions
Civil Service
A system including most government workers who are appointed rather than elected, aiming to give jobs to qualified candidates instead of political supporters
Civil Service Act
A law signed by President Chester Arthur requiring job seekers to take a test so elected officials could not reward supporters with jobs unless qualified
Which law allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators?
Seventeenth Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment
Recall
Referendum
Directions: Use the provided definitions and information to understand the key people, organizations, and concepts of the Progressive Era. Match each term to its definition.
Nineteenth Amendment
The amendment that gave women the right to vote in 1920
Eighteenth Amendment
The amendment that banned the production and sale of alcoholic drinks in 1919
Recall
A vote to remove an official from office before the end of his or her term
Initiative
A procedure that allows voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition
Referendum
A procedure that permits voters to approve or reject a law
Directions: Use the provided definitions and information to understand the key people, organizations, and concepts of the Progressive Era. Match each term to its definition.
Bully Pulpit
Theodore Roosevelt's term for the president's unique power to affect public opinion through speeches to push for reform
Lynchings
Atrocities against African Americans in the South that Ida B. Wells publicized as "our country's national crime"
Skyscraper
Tall buildings made possible by mass production of steel and the invention of the elevator
Electric Light Bulb
An invention by Thomas Edison that revolutionized city life by allowing factories and streets to operate at night
Which location served as the main processing point for millions of immigrants entering the United States?
Ellis Island
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Albany State Capitol
Pearl Harbor
