Unit 3 Review
Progressive Era
1. What was major goal of Jane Addams’s Settlement House movement in Chicago?
2. How did the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle contribute to a change in the relationship
between government and business?
3. What contributed to the ratification of the 18th Amendment?
4. What did the creation of initiative, referendum, and recall procedures during the Progressive Era
result in?
5. What occurred as a result of the Sherman Antitrust Act?
6. How did Booker T. Washington work to improve the lives of African Americans?
7. What did the political activism group known as the National Woman’s Party contribute to
directly?
8. What was the main strategy that President Roosevelt’s administration used to stop the type of
business practices that were criticized?
9. What characterizes the Progressive Era as a historical era?
10. What is the correct chronological order of the Progressive Era Presidents?
11. How did the 17th Amendment to the Constitution give more political power to the individual
voter?
12. What was an effect of the Progressive Era political reforms of initiative, referendum, and recall?
13. What idea did the writings of W.E.B DuBois promote?
14. What was the result of the Progressive Era reforms of the 17th Amendment, 19th Amendment, and
the Direct Party Primaries?
15. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created a central banking system in the USA with what
responsibility?
16. What was the USA government’s first large-scale effort to regulate business?
17. What did W.E.B. Dubois and other prominent Progressive leaders found in an attempt to expand
political and economic rights for African Americans?
18. What did some of Francis Willard’s efforts as a Progressive reformer include?
19. What foreign policy was created I response to the unemployment and declining wages on the
West Coast?
20. What prominent social concerns during the Progressive Era were evident in the subject matter of
Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle?
21. How did the creation of the Progressive Party affect the 1912 presidential election results?