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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich long-awaited goal of the women’s rights movement was achieved during the Progressive Era?the right to votethe right to own propertyequal pay for equal workequal access to employment and education
- 2. Multiple ChoiceKey Reforms of the Progressive Era
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
How did the reforms listed above impact America?A system of separate schools for new immigrantsThey gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of governmentMore sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class - 3. Multiple Choice
The founder of the NAACP who encouraged African Americans to fight to end segregationBooker T. WashingtonGeorge Washington CarverWEB DuboisUpton Sinclair - 4. Multiple ChoiceThis was created to allow women to vote nationally17th Amendment18th Amendment19th Amendment21st Amendment
- 5. Multiple ChoiceTo preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resourcesPrecipitationConfurionConservationInfusion
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat is it called when you hold a special election to replace someone in public office?InitiativeReferendumRecallDirect Election
- 7. Multiple Choice"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote."
—Amendment 17, U.S. Constitution
Why did Progressive reformers support this amendment?It provided the people the ability to directly vote for U.S. senators.It allowed state legislatures to influence the election of U.S. senators.It gave governors the ability to limit terms of U.S. senators.It granted state governments the power to appoint U.S. senators. - 8. Multiple ChoiceThe Federal Reserve Act of 1913:
•Created a centralized banking system
•Influenced interest rates
•Provided financial services to government
What was one of the intended effects of this act?to control the money supplyto stop the creation of monopoliesto eliminate money counterfeitingto prevent illegal business practices - 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the primary purpose of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?to offer bank loans to successful businessesto establish stability in the financial systemto provide retired workers with pensionsto allow banks to print paper money
- 10. Multiple ChoiceRecognizing the need to preserve our natural environment and natural history, which president created a record number of national parks?Grover ClevelandTheodore RooseveltWilliam TaftWilliam McKinley
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following can be attributed to W.E.B. Du Bois?the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)the increase of industrial education available for African Americansthe development of the Underground Railroadthe weakening of the Back to Africa movement
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWho was the early civil rights activist that supported trade education and gradual integration?WEB DuboisBooker T. WashingtonJohn HopeLugenia Burns Hope
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the purpose of implementing referendum recall and initiative?to give citizens more power in local affairsto guarantee public selection of federal officialsto prevent minority groups from participating in governmentto regulate sources of campaign finance
- 14. Multiple Choice"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. . . .”
-19th Amendment, U. S. Constitution
Which grouping of women worked for the passage of this amendment?Harriet Tubman, Jane Addams, and Dorothea DixSusan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Elizabeth Cady StantonMadeline Albright, Geraldine Ferraro, and Sandra Day O’ConnorClara Barton, Amelia Earhart, and Eleanor Roosevelt - 15. Multiple ChoiceProhibition of alcohol – banning sale, manufacture & consumption of alcohol18th17th16th15th
- 16. Multiple ChoiceCitizens place an issue on the ballotIniativeReferendumRecallSecret Ballot
- 17. Multiple ChoiceProved that when a strike threatened public welfare, the federal government could step in and disputes could be solved peacefullyHomestead Strike1902 Coal StrikeThe Great Strike of 1877Keating-Owen Act
- 18. Multiple ChoicePresident after the Republican Party split between Roosevelt and TaftWilliam McKinleyTheodore RooseveltWilliam TaftWoodrow Wilson
- 19. Multiple ChoiceHead of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial school. Believed equality would happen over timeTheodore RooseveltUpton SinclairBooker T. WashingtonW.E.B. Du Bois
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe 16th amendment replaced tariff revenues withThe graduated income taxVoting rights for womenProhibitiondirect election of senators
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhich speaker’s statement is most directly related to the political concepts of initiative, referendum, and recall?Speaker A: The best way to prevent corruption in government is to allow citizens a direct role in the legislative process.Speaker B: Breaking up trusts and monopolies will increase business competition.Speaker C: Government is best when kept far away from the general population.Speaker D: Government will only improve when women are granted full suffrage.
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhich speaker best expresses the environmental views of President Theodore Roosevelt?Speaker A: Nature should be left as it is found. All unsettled land should be off limits to future settlement or development.Speaker B: Natural resources should be controlled by big business to ensure the economicstrength of the United States. Our abundance of land gives us a great advantage for competing in world markets.Speaker C: The natural resources of the United States should be used wisely. We must conserve them for future generations while also using them to serve the people of today.Speaker D: Resources are given to us to use and there is more than enough to last my lifetime.
- 23. Multiple ChoiceA major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900–1917) was tostimulate the economysupport government control of factory productioncorrect the economic and social abuses of industrial societyrecover from a long period of economic depression
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