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Review Sheet: The Progressive Era
IB History of the Americas
Mr. Clarke
1. What problems and challenges affected 19th century farmers?
2. How did the Grange(r) Movement and the Farmers Alliances attempt to deal with these
problems?
3. Why did farmers support “free silver?”
4. What demands did the Populist party make?
5. How effective was the Populist party in achieving its goals?
6. Why have historians had such a hard time defining “progressivism?”
7. What legislation did Congress pass after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s book, The
Jungle?
8. Name three political reforms that many states implemented during the Progressive Era.
9. What factors prompted the rise of Progressivism in the early 1900s?
10.
What types of policies did President Theodore Roosevelt support?
11.
Compare and contrast the Populists and the Progressives.
12.
Who ran in the presidential election of 1912? How were the candidates different?
13.
What was the purpose of the following Constitutional Amendments?
a. 16th Amendment:
b. 17th Amendment:
c. 18th Amendment:
d. 19th Amendment:
e. 20th Amendment:
14.
What is a “Muckraker?”
15.
Identify four muckrakers and their works.
16.
What laws did the federal government pass to enable the government to break up trusts?
17.
What did the Federal Reserve Act do?
18.
Name two organizations that fought for women’s suffrage.
19.
Name two prominent suffragettes.
20.
Name two strategies that suffragettes simultaneously pursued?
21.
Why did it take women so long to gain the right to vote?
22.
What factors allowed women to finally gain the right to vote in 1921?
23.
How were Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey both similar and
different in terms of their goals, and strategies they supported for achieving those goals?