Progressive Era 11/20/10
Progressive Era 11/20/10
- 1.Progressive Republican President who started many antitrust lawsuits and placed additional land in government reserves. Friendship with TR was broken over a tariff and a controversy over conservation.
- A.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- B.
Woodrow Wilson
- C.
Theodore Roosevelt
- D.
William Howard Taft
- 2.An effective leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was _____.
- A.
Florence Kelley
- B.
Carry Nation
- C.
Alice Paul
- D.
Frances Willard
- 3.The act that created a national banking system that regulated the economy and the nation's banks was the _____.
- A.
Federal Trade Commission
- B.
Sherman Antitrust Act
- C.
16th Amendment
- D.
Federal Reserve Act
- 4._____ allows voters to remove a public official from office for wrongdoing.
- A.
Referendum
- B.
Recall
- C.
Impeachment
- D.
Suffrage
- 5.Progressive Democratic President who lowered the tariff and made laws against monopolies stronger. He also created the Federal Reserve to regulate banking and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and punish unfair business practices. Economic programs were called "New Freedom".
- A.
Woodrow Wilson
- B.
William Howard Taft
- C.
Theodore Roosevelt
- D.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 6.Governor of Wisconsin who helped create the Wisconsin Idea was _____.
- A.
Robert La Follette
- B.
John Muir
- C.
Upton Sinclair
- D.
Lincoln Steffens
- 7.Who got admitted to an insane asylum to expose the poor conditions faced by the mentally ill?
- A.
Carry Nation
- B.
Nellie Bly
- C.
Ida Tarbell
- D.
Alice Paul
- 8._____ was the leader of the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) when the 19th Amendment was passed.
- A.
Carry Nation
- B.
Carrie Chapman Catt
- C.
Susan B. Anthony
- D.
Ida Tarbell
- 9.The _____ was a series of Progressive reforms.
- A.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
- B.
NAACP
- C.
Federal Reserve Act
- D.
Wisconsin Idea
- 10.____ was the founder of the National Woman's Party (NWP) who went on a hunger strike in jail to gain attention for the women's suffrage movement.
- A.
Alice Paul
- B.
Susan B. Anthony
- C.
Florence Kelley
- D.
Carrie Chapman Catt
- 11.The organization that worked to help southern blacks make the transition into northern cities was the _____.
- A.
Women's Christian Temperance
- B.
National Urban League
- C.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- D.
Federal Trade League
- 12.Progressive Republican President who was known as "trustbuster" for breaking up some trusts. He also supported the Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Acts. He helped settle a coal miners' strike by supporting labor over management and through this created the "Square Deal" for all Americans. He was also a conservationist who doubled the number of national parks and preserved 150 million acres of forest.
- A.
Booker T. Washington
- B.
William Howard Taft
- C.
Woodrow Wilson
- D.
Theodore Roosevelt
- 13.The organization founded by Lincoln Steffens, Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, and others which fights against discrimination is the _____.
- A.
Civil Rights Organization (CRO)
- B.
Black Panthers (BP)
- C.
Emancipation Association for the Rights of Colored People (EARCP)
- D.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- 14.The _____ was the organization that picketed the White House and used civil disobedience to gain women suffrage
- A.
National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
- B.
American Woman's Party (AWP)
- C.
National Woman's Party (NWP)
- D.
Women's Rights Movement (WRM)
- 15._____ gave voters the power to make a bill become a law.
- A.
The Federal Reserve Act
- B.
Initiative
- C.
The 17th Amendment
- D.
Referendum
- 16._____ exposed corrupt city governments in his book, The Shame of the Cities.
- A.
Francis Willard
- B.
Lewis Carroll
- C.
Upton Sinclair
- D.
Lincoln Steffens
- 17.The journalist who exposed the unfair labor practices of the Standard Oil Trust was _____.
- A.
Ida Tarbell
- B.
Lincoln Steffens
- C.
Jacob Riis
- D.
Nellie Bly
- 18.The photographer who exposed the problems of child labor and immigrant life was _____.
- A.
John Muir
- B.
Ida Tarbell
- C.
Jacob Riis
- D.
Lewis Hine
- 19.The artist whose political cartoons exposed the corruption of New York City boss William Marcy Tweed was _____.
- A.
John Muir
- B.
Thomas Nast
- C.
Lincoln Steffens
- D.
Lewis Hine
- 20.The _____ was the organization that fought to get women the right to vote.
- A.
Women's Rights Movement (WRM)
- B.
National Ladies' Association (NWA)
- C.
National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
- D.
Susan B. Anthony Association
- 21.The founder of the NAACP who believed that African Americans should immediately have full political and social rights was _____.
- A.
Frances Willard
- B.
John Muir
- C.
W.E.B. DuBois
- D.
Booker T. Washington
- 22._____ wrote the novel The Jungle which exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry.
- A.
Upton Sinclair
- B.
Lincoln Steffens
- C.
Florence Kelley
- D.
Lewis Hine
- 23.The _____ was federal law that banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.
- A.
Sherman Antitrust Act
- B.
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
- C.
Food and Drug Administration of 1906
- D.
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1919
- 24.The Temperance leader who stormed into saloons with a hatchet, smashing liquor bottles and glasses was _____.
- A.
Frances Willard
- B.
Molly Hatchet
- C.
Florence Kelley
- D.
Carry Nation
- 25.A _______ was a forward-thinking person who wanted to make American society better.
- A.
Protagonist
- B.
Procrastinator
- C.
Proponent
- D.
Progressive
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