U.S. History - Fraker Populist and Progressive Eras
Match each description to the person it best identifies. Some answers will be used more than once.
a. Mark Twain b. JP Morgan c. Upton Sinclair d. John D. Rockefeller e. William Jennings Bryan f. Jane Addams
1. Author who created the term “the Gilded Age”
2. Created Hull House for single women to live in and gain working skills
3. Muckraker who wrote about the meatpacking industry in “The Jungle”
4. Banker who took over the Railroad Industry and provided capital for business growth
5. Oil tycoon who created Standard Oil
6. Ran for president in 1896 and 1900 as a Populist
7. Believed that the US monetary system should remain based on the Gold Standard
Multiple Choice:
8. The time period was known as the Gilded Age because ______?
a. Everyone was rich
b. Life was better for many, but also very bad for many more
c. The US money was based on the value of gold
d. It was a legal requirement that all capital buildings have domes with gold coverings
e. all of these
9. How did the Pendleton Civil Service Act change government employment?
a. It allowed the Spoils System to be used in hiring for all government jobs
b. It made it easier for people to get government jobs
c. It forced potential government employees to take a test to determine their qualifications
10. Refer to the following quote to answer this question:
“The Growth of a Large Business is merely the survival of the fittest.”
The point of view expressed in the quotation is an example of
a. Progressivism
b. Communism
c. Social Darwinism
d. Anarchism
11. The Supreme Court decided in Plessy v. Ferguson ((1896) that segregated accommodations were constitutionally
allowable as long as they were equal. Therefore, the doctrine of “Separate but Equal” was established. Why did
some people object to that ruling?
a. People knew that if institutions were separate, they would not be equal.
b. People objected to government interference in their lives
c. People thought it was unnecessary since the Bill of Rights protected everyone
d. People thought that segregation should be decided individually, case by case
12. Which of the following was NOT an example of Jim Crowe legislation?
a. Poll Taxes
b. Separate restroom facilities
c. Literacy Tests
d. Civil Services
13. All of the following are true about the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory EXCEPT ______.
a. It led to the call for the 18th Amendment
b. It led to the creation of laws limiting the work day hours
c. It led to the creation of workplace safety laws
d. Children as well as adult women were killed
14. The work of Ida Tarbell was significant because it led to the
a. passage of the Meat Inspection Act
b. passage of the 19th Amendment
c. breakup of the Standard Oil Company
d. passage of the Voting Rights Amendment
15. The passage of the Nineteenth Amendment established women’s suffrage which is the right of women to
a. retire at age 62
b. get a divorce
c. vote
d. go to college
16. Which of the following would NOT be considered a Progressive?
a. William McKinley
b. Theodore Roosevelt
c. Ida Tarbell
d. Lincoln Steffens
17. Which of the following groups supported the Progressive Movement?
a. farmers c. middle class e. some Democrats and Republicans
b. workers d. muckrakers ab. all of these are correct
18. The progressive movement of the early 20th Century sought to
a. free the individual from dependence on the government
b. solve and reform the political, economic and social problems of our society
c. preserve an agrarian America
d. provide government ownership of the major industries
19. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis are both examples of
literature that helped to
a. increase the feeling of national pride
b. bolster the economy
c. stimulate interest in free public education
d. create a climate for reform
20. The Sherman Anti Trust Act was created to
a. encourage trust between the people and their government.
b. end business practices that restricted trade, such as monopolies.
c. restore Georgia to its pre Civil War conditions.
d. give small businesses an advantage over larger more established businesses.
21. W.E.B. DuBois was an outspoken critic of
a. Booker T Washington
b. Martin Luther King ,Jr.
22. As President, Teddy Roosevelt's oversaw all of the following actions EXCEPT ______
a. Pure food and drug act
b. creation of the national parks administration
c. court cases to break up monopolies
d. the Plessy vs Ferguson court case
Matching:
a. recall f. referendum
b. muckraker g. workers compensation
c. direct primaries h welfare
d. Civil Service Commission i. 17th amendment
e. initiative j. 19th amendment
23. A reform-minded journalist
24. When the voters get to decide who the party's candidate will be
25. Provides for the direct election of Senators
26. Organization which hires workers for the government
27. Provides workers that are injured on the job with partial pay and medical care
28. Benefits from the government for orphans, widows and the elderly
29. Allowed the people to get bills put on the ballot
30. Allowed the people to remove an elected official from office
31. Gave the voters an opportunity to vote on bills
32. Provided for woman's suffrage
a. Robert Lafollette d. John Dewey g. WEB DuBois
b. Boss Tweed e. Booker T Washington h. Susan B. Anthony
c. Jacob Riis f. Lincoln Steffens
33. Muckraker who took pictures of the poor and created the book How the Other Half Lives
34. Leader of the Political Machine in New York
35. Leader of school reform movement who wanted to create public schools for everyone
36. Believed the best way to end racial inequality was by improving education and therefore economic equality
37. Leader in the fight for women’s suffrage
38.Progressive governor of Wisconsin who pushed for many Progressive reforms
39. Believed that segregation and Jim Crowe laws should be abolished immediately if “all men are created equal” and are citizens
40. Muckraker who wrote Shame of the Cities in which political corruption in local governments was exposed