US History Quiz 11A (Part 1) - The Progressive Era (15 Questions)

The following is a quiz with the Progressive Era based questions. These questions are related to social, political, and economic topics.

Take this quiz as often as you would like. You goal for this exam should be 60% or higher.

1 The Meat Inspection Act (1906), the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), and the Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) were similar in that each

	increased government regulation of business
	resulted from a pro-business government policy
	lowered tariffs on imported goods
	decreased federal taxes on personal income

2 What was the Progressive movement mainly a response to?

	need to improve race relations in the United States
	pressures the United States experienced as a result of becoming a world power
	industrialization and urbanization of the United States
	demands of the post-Civil War Southern leaders for social change

3 The American Federation of Labor became the first long-lasting, successful labor union in the United States mainly because it

	refused to participate in strikes against employers
	concentrated on organizing workers in industries in the South
	formed its own political party and elected many prolabor public officials
	fought for the rights of skilled workers

4 Base your answer to the question on the following cartoon and on your knowledge of social studies.

Source: W.A. Carson, Utica Saturday Globe, 1912 (adapted)

What is the main idea of this 1912 cartoon?

	The Democratic Party is losing support.
	Republicans outnumber Democrats in the United States.
	The political process has no room for more than two parties.
	A third political party can threaten the two major parties.

5 Which reform idea was a common goal of the Populists and the Progressives?

	restoration of the nation’s cities
	expansion of opportunities for immigrants
	improvement in the status of African Americans
	greater control of government by the people

6 The muckrakers of the Progressive Era and the investigative reporters of the 1970's and 1980's are similar in that both

	sought to document corruption in United States life
	advocated fewer government controls on the economy
	tried to increase the spirit of patriotism
	called for expanded aid to economically less developed nations

7 In the early 20th century, muckraking authors Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell primarily criticized the federal government for

	wasting money on foreign wars
	ignoring abuses committed by big business
	excessive regulation of the steel industry
	overspending on social welfare programs

8 Lincoln Steffens and Jane Addams are best known for

	attempting to ease the problems of the urban poor
	fighting for temperance and Prohibition
	leading political movements on behalf of the Populist Party
	promoting the interests of organized labor

9 Base your answer to the question on the photograph below and on your knowledge of social studies.

Actions such as the one shown in the photograph helped lead to the

	defeat of Germany in World War I
	failure of President Woodrow Wilson to win reelection
	rejection of United States membership in the League of Nations
	addition of a woman's suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution

10 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were best known for their struggle to

	prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcohol
	form labor unions
	secure the right of women to vote
	expose government corruption

11 During the 19th century, what was the major reason that an increasing number of states established public schools and passed compulsory education laws?

	Reformers argued that an educated, literate population was necessary for a successful democracy.
	The Supreme Court required the states to do so.
	Most jobs required a high school diploma.
	The United States had begun a massive program of technical training to enhance its international economic position.

12 In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis described the living conditions of

	workers in urban slums
	African Americans in the segregated South
	the rich in their mansions
	Native American Indians on reservations

13 Base your answer on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

". . . The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but, in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either. Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power. The most common instance of this is connected with the establishment of separate schools for white and colored [African American] children, which has been held to be a valid exercise of the legislative power even by courts of States where the political rights of the colored race have been longest and most earnestly enforced. . . . " — United States Supreme Court, 1896

In this 1896 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of

	the Three-fifths Compromise
	Jim Crow laws
	affirmative action programs
	racial integration

14 During the first three decades of the twentieth century, what was the main reason many African-Americans left the South?

	The Dawes Act made free land available in the West.
	More factory jobs were available in the North.
	Many white landowners refused to accept them as sharecroppers.
	Racial discrimination did not occur in states outside the South.

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• Pure Food and Drug Act passed.
• Graduated income tax established.
• Federal Reserve System created.

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These events occurred during which historic period?

	Reconstruction
	Progressive Era
	Roaring Twenties
	Cold War

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