Progressive Era Review
*Answer the following questions
1. What was the difference in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era?
2. What are the major characteristics of the Progressive Era?
3. What were the major ideas of the Populist Party?
5. What were the major ideas of the Progressive Party?
* Match the following terms with their importance.
6. ___ Interstate Commerce Act
7.___ How the Other Half Lives
8.___ Hull House
9.___ Sherman Anti-Trust Act
10.___ Jane Addams
11.___ The Jungle
12.___ Carrie Nation
13.___ Pure Food and Drug Act
14.___ Meat Inspection Act
15.___ Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
16.___ John Muir
17.___ Susan B. Anthony
18.___ W.E.B. Dubois
19.___ Women’s Christian Temperance Union
A. “Father of National Parks”
B. book written by Upton Sinclair
C. photographs by Jacob Riis showing poverty
D. law saying no meat could be processed in
unsanitary conditions
E. founder of the NAACP, fought for civil rights
F. company fire that showed the mistreatment
of employees, encouraged reform
G. all food/drugs produced had to have an
ingredients label
H. social reformer, fought for women’s’ rights
I. organization that pushed for prohibition
J. founded Hull House
K. in favor of prohibition, known for attacking
taverns that sold alcohol with a hatchet
L. law that regulated the railroad
M. act created to limit monopolies
* Identify the major work and/or social issue attributed to each of the following muckrakers:
20. Upton Sinclair
21. Jacob Riis
22. Francis Willard
23. Ida B. Wells
24. Ida Tarbell
* Answer the following questions.
25. Which 3 U.S. Presidents are most directly associated with the Progressive Era; list them in the
order that they served?
26. Describe the importance of the National Park System, and why is its creation so important as a
part of our history?
27. What was the purpose of the suffrage movement?
28. What role did literature and the media play in the Progressive Era?
* Match the following reforms with their correct description.
29. ___ 16th Amendment
30.___ 17th Amendment
31.___ 18th Amendment
32.___ 19th Amendment
33.___ Initiative
34.___ Referendum
35.___ Recall
36.___ Child Labor Act of 1914
37.___ Federal Reserve Act of 1913
A. prohibition
B. allows people to hold election leaders accountable
C. direct election of senators
D. citizen’s right to introduce a new legislative measure
E. women’s suffrage
F. income tax
G. allows people to have more influence in decision
making process
H. created a central banking system
I. children under 14 may not be employed
* True or False, if False correct the statement.
38.___ Many U.S. citizens believed in nativism, and treated immigrants unfairly.
39.___ Upton Sinclair wrote the book The Jungle; which encouraged the government to pass the
Open Door Policy.
40.___The idea of eugenics was brought on by the theory of Social Darwinism; which is that only the
strong will survive.
41. ___ John Muir is known as the “Father of National Parks” because of his role in helping to create
the National Parks Service.
42.___ The Red Scare increased immigration especially from communist countries.
43.___Members of the Populist Party were mostly farmers that mainly opposed banks, railroads,
and upper classes’ efforts, resulted in hurting African American suffrage.
*Match the following words with the correct definition.
44.___ Open Door Policy
A. a change to a document
45.___ Dollar Diplomacy
B. policy that would allow all countries to trade with China
46.___ Domino Effect
C. journalist that exposed corruption & poverty
47.___ Amendment
D. improvement of the human population by controlled
48.___ Muckraker
breeding to eliminate bad genes
49.___ Progressive Era
E. policy of joining business interest with diplomatic interests
50.___Eugenics
F. belief that countries neighboring communist countries would
51.___ Red Scare
fall to communism
52.___ Antitrust Acts
G. promotion of the fear of a potential rise of communism
53.___ Bull Moose Party
H. political party in the U.S. founded by Roosevelt
54.___ Populist Party
I. time period of social activism and political reform in the U.S.
J. Third Party that was supported by disgruntled farmer