Progressive Era

_____ was a photographer who exposed the problems of the poor and city slums.
1. Jacob Riis
2. Ira Tarbell
3. Thomas Nast
4. Lewis Hine
The journalist who exposed the unfair labor practices of the Standard Oil Trust was _____.
1. Jacob Riis
2. Nellie Bly
3. Lincoln Steffens
4. Ida Tarbell
_____ wrote the novel The Jungle which exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry.
1. Lincoln Steffens
2. Upton Sinclair
3. Lewis Hine
4. Florence Kelley
The artist whose political cartoons exposed the corruption of New York City boss William Marcy Tweed was _____.
1. Thomas Nast
2. John Muir
3. Lincoln Steffens
4. Lewis Hine
The photographer who exposed the problems of child labor and immigrant life was _____.
1. Jacob Riis
2. Ida Tarbell
3. Lewis Hine
4. John Muir
_____ exposed corrupt city governments in his book, The Shame of the Cities.
1. Lincoln Steffens
2. Upton Sinclair
3. Lewis Carroll
4. Francis Willard
Who got admitted to an insane asylum to expose the poor conditions faced by the mentally ill?
1. Ida Tarbell
2. Nellie Bly
3. Carry Nation
4. Alice Paul
Crusading journalists who made people more aware of the problems in society were known as _____.
1. Prohibitionists
2. Crusaders
3. Inspectors
4. Muckrakers
A _______ was a forward-thinking person who wanted to make American society better.
1. Progressive
2. Procrastinator
3. Protagonist
4. Proponent
The _____ helped end the spoils system by giving government jobs based on merit rather than who you knew.
1. Federal Reserve Act
2. Sherman Antitrust Act
3. Pendleton Civil Service Act
4. Meat Inspection Act of 1906
_____ allows citizens to introduce a bill for the state legislature to vote on to make a law.
1. Initiative
2. Referendum
3. Recall
4. Direct primary
_____ gave voters the power to make a bill become a law.
1. Initiative
2. The Federal Reserve Act
3. The 17th Amendment
4. Referendum
_____ allows voters to remove a public official from office for wrongdoing.
1. Impeachment
2. Recall
3. Referendum
4. Suffrage
_____ allows voters to choose their party's candidate for an elected office.
1. Initiative
2. Suffrage
3. Direct primary
4. Referendum
The _____ was a series of Progressive reforms.
1. Pendleton Civil Service Act
2. Wisconsin Idea
3. Federal Reserve Act
4. NAACP
Governor of Wisconsin who helped create the Wisconsin Idea was _____.
1. Lincoln Steffens
2. Robert La Follette
3. Upton Sinclair
4. John Muir
The _____ was federal law that required inspections of meatpacking plants.
1. Meat Inspection Act of 1906
2. Meat Inspection Act of 1909
3. Meatpacking Act of 1906
4. Meatlovers Act of 1909
The _____ was federal law that banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.
1. Pure Food and Drug Act of 1919
2. Food and Drug Administration of 1906
3. Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
4. Sherman Antitrust Act
The law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade was the _____.
1. Federal Reserve Act
2. Sherman Antitrust Act
3. Anti-Monopoly Act
4. 19th Amendment
The act that created a national banking system that regulated the economy and the nation's banks was the _____.
1. Sherman Antitrust Act
2. Federal Trade Commission
3. 16th Amendment
4. Federal Reserve Act
The federal organization set up to investigate and punish unfair business practices was the _____.
1. Federal Trade Commission
2. National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
3. Pendleton Civil Service Commission
4. Federal Reserve Commission
The _____ created the income tax to help support progressive reforms.
1. 17th Amendment
2. 18th Amendment
3. 16th Amendment
4. 19th Amendment
The _____ allows citizens to directly elect their U.S. Senators.
1. 16th Amendment
2. 18th Amendment
3. 17th Amendment
4. 19th Amendment
The _____ is the Prohibition Amendment which outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
1. 18th Amendment
2. 16th Amendment
3. 17th Amendment
4. 19th Amendment
The _____ was nicknamed the Susan B. Anthony Amendment because it gave women the right to vote (suffrage).
1. 19th Amendment
2. 16th Amendment
3. 17th Amendment
4. 18th Amendment
The _____ was the organization that fought to get women the right to vote.
1. National Ladies' Association (NWA)
2. Women's Rights Movement (WRM)
3. National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
4. Susan B. Anthony Association
The _____ was the organization that picketed the White House and used civil disobedience to gain women suffrage
1. National Woman's Party (NWP)
2. National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
3. Women's Rights Movement (WRM)
4. American Woman's Party (AWP)
_____ was the leader of the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) when the 19th Amendment was passed.
1. Susan B. Anthony
2. Carry Nation
3. Carrie Chapman Catt
4. Ida Tarbell
_____ was an early suffrage leader who helped found the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
1. Florence Kelley
2. Carry Nation
3. Ida Tarbell
4. Susan B. Anthony
____ 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.
1. Carrie Chapman Catt
2. Susan B. Anthony
3. Florence Kelley
4. Alice Paul
The _____ was the organization that fought to get Prohibition passed and taught about the problems of alcoholism.
1. American Woman's Party (AWP)
2. National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
3. Women's Catholic Temperance Union (WCTU)
4. Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
An effective leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was _____.
1. Alice Paul
2. Florence Kelley
3. Frances Willard
4. Carry Nation
The Temperance leader who stormed into saloons with a hatchet, smashing liquor bottles and glasses was _____.
1. Molly Hatchet
2. Carry Nation
3. Frances Willard
4. Florence Kelley
The organization founded by Lincoln Steffens, Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, and others which fights against discrimination is the _____.
1. Black Panthers (BP)
2. Civil Rights Organization (CRO)
3. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
4. Emancipation Association for the Rights of Colored People (EARCP)
The founder of the NAACP who believed that African Americans should immediately have full political and social rights was _____.
1. Booker T. Washington
2. W.E.B. DuBois
3. John Muir
4. Frances Willard
The founder of the Tuskegee Institute who believed that racial harmony and hard work would lead to equality for African Americans was _____.
1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. W.E.B. DuBois
3. Booker T. Washington
4. John Muir
The organization that worked to help southern blacks make the transition into northern cities was the _____.
1. National Urban League
2. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
3. Women's Christian Temperance Union
4. Federal Trade League
The preservationist who believed that conservation of natural resources was more important than public interests was _____.
1. Booker T. Washington
2. John Muir
3. Florence Kelley
4. W.E.B. DuBois
_____ was a member of the Hull House who fought against the use of child labor.
1. Frances Willard
2. Carrie Chapman Catt
3. Florence Kelley
4. Alice Paul
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.
1. William Howard Taft
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Woodrow Wilson
4. Booker T. Washington
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.
1. Woodrow Wilson
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. William Howard Taft
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".
1. Woodrow Wilson
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. William Howard Taft

Progressive Era

Multiple-Choice ExerciseContent © 2006 Justin Grabowski; Authors of Activity: Justin Grabowski & Tami Maloney; All rights reserved. No commercial, for-profit use of this material is allowed. E-mail comments and questions to Tami Maloney.

_____ was a photographer who exposed the problems of the poor and city slums.

The journalist who exposed the unfair labor practices of the Standard Oil Trust was _____.

_____ wrote the novel The Jungle which exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry.

The artist whose political cartoons exposed the corruption of New York City boss William Marcy Tweed was _____.

The photographer who exposed the problems of child labor and immigrant life was _____.

_____ exposed corrupt city governments in his book, The Shame of the Cities.

Who got admitted to an insane asylum to expose the poor conditions faced by the mentally ill?

Crusading journalists who made people more aware of the problems in society were known as _____.

A _______ was a forward-thinking person who wanted to make American society better.

The _____ helped end the spoils system by giving government jobs based on merit rather than who you knew.

_____ allows citizens to introduce a bill for the state legislature to vote on to make a law.

_____ gave voters the power to make a bill become a law.

_____ allows voters to remove a public official from office for wrongdoing.

_____ allows voters to choose their party's candidate for an elected office.

The _____ was a series of Progressive reforms.

Governor of Wisconsin who helped create the Wisconsin Idea was _____.

The _____ was federal law that required inspections of meatpacking plants.

The _____ was federal law that banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.

The law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade was the _____.

The act that created a national banking system that regulated the economy and the nation's banks was the _____.

The federal organization set up to investigate and punish unfair business practices was the _____.

The _____ created the income tax to help support progressive reforms.

The _____ allows citizens to directly elect their U.S. Senators.

The _____ is the Prohibition Amendment which outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.

The _____ was nicknamed the Susan B. Anthony Amendment because it gave women the right to vote (suffrage).

The _____ was the organization that fought to get women the right to vote.

The _____ was the organization that picketed the White House and used civil disobedience to gain women suffrage

_____ was the leader of the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) when the 19th Amendment was passed.

_____ was an early suffrage leader who helped found the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

____ 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.

The _____ was the organization that fought to get Prohibition passed and taught about the problems of alcoholism.

An effective leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was _____.

The Temperance leader who stormed into saloons with a hatchet, smashing liquor bottles and glasses was _____.

The organization founded by Lincoln Steffens, Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, and others which fights against discrimination is the _____.

The founder of the NAACP who believed that African Americans should immediately have full political and social rights was _____.

The founder of the Tuskegee Institute who believed that racial harmony and hard work would lead to equality for African Americans was _____.

The organization that worked to help southern blacks make the transition into northern cities was the _____.

The preservationist who believed that conservation of natural resources was more important than public interests was _____.

_____ was a member of the Hull House who fought against the use of child labor.

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.

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".

Multiple-Choice Exercise
Content © 2006 Justin Grabowski; Authors of Activity: Justin Grabowski & Tami Maloney; All rights reserved. No commercial, for-profit use of this material is allowed. E-mail comments and questions to Tami Maloney.

**_____ wrote the novel The Jungle which exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry.**

**_____ exposed corrupt city governments in his book, The Shame of the Cities.**