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Progressives Test 2

Short Answer
 

1. 

List FIVE Progressive Reforms or goals from the early Twentieth Century.
 

Matching
 
 
Match the correct term with the definitions below.
a.
Progressives
i.
Upton Sinclair
b.
Muckrakers
j.
Lincoln Steffens
c.
Teddy Roosevelt
k.
Jacob Riis
d.
William Howard Taft
l.
Ida Tarbell
e.
Woodrow Wilson
m.
Federal Reserve Act
f.
Pure Food and Drug Act
n.
referendum
g.
Seventeenth Amendment
o.
urbanization
h.
Nineteenth Amendment
p.
immigration
 

2. 

Wrote History of the Standard Oil Company
 

3. 

Provided for women to have the right to vote.
 

4. 

Rapid movement of people to the cities.
 

5. 

Wrote The Jungle
 

6. 

Somewhat unpopular Progressive president that busted more trusts than Roosevelt
 

7. 

This law guaranteed safe food and drugs in the United States
 

8. 

Journalists that wrote about problems in the United States during the Progressive Era.
 

9. 

Democratic progressive president that pushed for the Federal Reserve Act
 

10. 

Very popular Progressive President that pushed for the Pure Food and Drug Act and conservation of natural resources.
 

11. 

Provided for the Direct Election of Senators
 

12. 

Wrote Shame of Our Cities
 

13. 

This law created our current system of banking
 

14. 

Wrote How the Other Half Lives
 

15. 

Reform movement at turn of the 20th Century
 

16. 

This is when an issue is put on the ballot on election day for the people to vote on.
 

17. 

Movement of people into a country from another country.
 

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

18. 

The reform movment at the turn of the Twentieth Century was called _______.
a.
Reformist Movement
c.
Liberal Movement
b.
Progressive Movment
d.
None of the Above
 

19. 

A(n) _________________ is somebody who takes a risk to invest large sums of money on a new idea or product.
a.
entrepreneur
c.
capitalist
b.
pretender
d.
extortionist
 

20. 

______ refers to local goverment
a.
Municipal
c.
Federalism
b.
State
d.
injunction
 

21. 

A ________ was a place where poor and desperate people could go to sleep, eat, and become educated.
a.
YMCA
c.
soup kitchen
b.
settlement house
d.
welfare office
 

22. 

__________ is an economic system where the goods and services of a country are privately owned and land is privately owned as well.
a.
socialism
c.
capitalism
b.
communism
d.
mercantilism
 

23. 

A _______ is a business in which there is no competition in the industry.
a.
cartel
c.
monopoly
b.
oligopoly
d.
enterprise
 

24. 

_______ was a robber baron in the steel industry of Pittsburgh.
a.
John D. Rockefeller
c.
John Heinz
b.
Andrew Carnegie
d.
J.P. Morgan
 

25. 

Industrialization caused people to move ________.
a.
From other countries to the U.S.
c.
From rural areas to cities
b.
From cities to rural areas
d.
Both A and C are correct
 

26. 

An economic system in which all people are supposed to have the same amount of wealth is called _______.
a.
Aristocracy
c.
Democracy
b.
Socialism
d.
Capitalism
 

27. 

A ________ was a very overcrowded and dirty apartment complex.
a.
referendum
c.
referendum
b.
settlement house
d.
injunction
 



 
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