Progressive Era Achievements and Figures

Progressive Era

Question 1 - 10 • She helps pass the Illinois Factory Act, improving the working conditions and lives of women and children

Answer 1 – 10 • Florence Kelly

Question 1 - 20 • Promoting moral improvement included the banning of alcohol. This is known as……

Answer 1 – 20 • Prohibition.

Question 1 - 30 • These journalists exposed the corrupt side of business and government through print media.

Answer 1 – 30 • Muckrakers

Question 1 - 40 • Name four election reforms that give more control to the people.

Answer 1 – 40 • Initiative, recall, referendum and 17th Amendment. • Initiative – bills originating with the people • Recall – removing public officials from office before election time. • Referendum – voting on initiatives • 17th Amendment –Direct Election of Senators

Question 1 - 50 • What are the four goals of Progressivism?

Answer 1 – 50 • Economic, moral, political and social reform.

Question 2 - 10 • This group of African-American women founded schools for the moral education of the race.

Answer 2 – 10 • NACW or the National Association of Colored Women.

Question 2 - 20 • This amendment should have given women the right to vote but it was used against them.

Answer 2 – 20 • 14th amendment – it gives all citizens the right to vote but the Supreme Court ruled against women.

Question 2 - 30 • She voted illegally in the Presidential election of 1872. Afterwards she became a leading proponent of women’s suffrage and helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association.

Answer 2 – 30 • Susan B Anthony

Question 2 - 40 • Name the year and the amendment that gives women the right to vote in national elections.

Answer 2 – 40 • In 1920 the 19th amendment gives women the right to vote.

Question 2 - 50 • This woman led the way for prohibition by using a hatchet on liquor bottles in bars and taverns.

Answer 2 – 50 • Carry Nation

Question 3 - 10 • Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle exposed the horrid conditions in this industry which led Roosevelt to ask for legislation regulating it.

Answer 3 – 10 • Meatpacking industry.

Question 3 - 20 • You can now go to many national parks such as the Grand Canyon and Yosemite as a result of his actions.

Answer 3 – 20 • Teddy Roosevelt

Question 3 - 30 • Presidential use of news media to shape and influence public opinion is called using the …..

Answer 3 – 30 • Bully Pulpit

Question 3 - 40 • This act halted the sale of contaminated food and medicines and called for truth in labeling.

Answer 3 – 40 • Pure Food and Drug Act.

Question 3 - 50 • What’s the significance of the 1902 Coal Strike?

Answer 3 – 50 • Government should intervene if a strike threatens the public welfare.

Question 4 - 10 • Roosevelt’s handpicked successor to the Presidency.

Answer 4 – 10 • William Howard Taft • He’s the only other President buried at Arlington Cemetery. Can you name the other President buried there?

Question 4 - 20 • How many trusts did Taft bust?

Answer 4 – 20 • 90 • Compared to Roosevelt, Taft was a huge success, pun intended.

Question 4 - 30 • This bill actually raised many tariffs which made Progressives angry.

Answer 4 – 30 • Payne Aldrich Tariff.

Question 4 - 40 • The first person to attempt to run for a third term as President was….

Answer 4 – 40 • Roosevelt ran for a third term as a Bull Moose candidate.

Question 4 - 50 • What are two policies supported by Taft that Roosevelt didn’t agree with?

Answer 4 – 50 • Conservation and Tariffs.

Question 5 - 10 • The 16th Amendment legalized……

Answer 5 – 10 • Income taxes. • The income tax was declared unconstitutional three times before this.

Question 5 - 20 • This act strengthens the Sherman Act and prohibited corporations from purchasing stock if it created monopolies.

Answer 5 – 20 • Clayton Act

Question 5 - 30 • What led to Wilson’s victory in 1912?

Answer 5 – 30 • Split party vote between the Republicans and the Bull Moose Party.

Question 5 - 40 • This act sets up the nations banking system?

Answer 5 – 40 • Federal Reserve Act.

Progressive Era Achievements and Figures

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