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Progressive Era Review Sheet

Directions: Read the question carefully and answer in the space that follows. (

1. List four progressive reforms at the state level that gave voters greater political power:

2. What state was known for its progressive reforms very early on?

3. Who was their progressive governor?

4. What nickname(s) did he have?

5. What constitutional amendment made taxation more fair?

6. What constitutional amendment allowed voters to elect their two state senators directly?

7. What was the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs?

8. What President started this?

9. What President supported the Pendleton Act ending your answer to number 7?

10. According to the Civil Service Act, government jobs are now based on what?

11. Who wrote The Jungle?

12. Who exposed Standard Oil and Rockefeller’s unfair business practices?

13. Who exposed slums and tenements?

14. What type of people did you just list?

15. What did they wish to achieve (in general)?

16. What book brought about the Meat Inspection Act?

17. Summarize the Progressive Era in one sentence:

18. What Progressive President was known as the “trustbuster?”

19. What Progressive President started the National Parks Service?

20. What Progressive President’s program was known as the “Square Deal?”

21. What did the “Square Deal” mean? (page 650 bottom)

22. What Progressive President started the Bull Moose Party?

23. What three Progressive presidents ran against each other in the election of 1912?

24. The Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act both tried to eliminate what?

25. Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul both wanted what?

26. Which one was more militant?

27. Which one formed the National Women’s Party?

28. What did they finally achieve in 1920?

29. Why was this a difficult road/process?

30. What movement tried to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol?

31. What two women were the leaders of this movement?

32. Which one would barge into taverns and saloons and start ripping them up with hatchets?

33. What constitutional amendment banned the sale and consumption of alcohol?

34. What is another word for this (above answer)?

35. What did Booker T. Washington and W.E. B. Du Bois want to achieve?

36. Which one was more militant and believed that African Americans should actively fight discrimination?

37. Which one believed that African Americans should accept segregation for the time being and work on educating themselves and learning trades?

38. Which man helped to start the NAACP?

39. What is another word for “the right to vote?”

40. Who was the corrupt city boss of N.Y. City during the late 1800’s?

41. Why did many people, especially immigrants, support him and his Tammany ring?

42. Who eventually exposed him through political cartoons?

43. List the four constitutional amendments that came about during the Progressive Era: Using 1-4 words for each, briefly describe each amendment:

44. What famous “mother” helped put an end to child labor during the Progressive Era?

45. Name one political, one economic, and one social change that occurred during the Progressive Era:

46. Name three (3) pieces of legislation that were passed during the Progressive Era. (hint: look at page 667 in textbook, green chart ()

47. On page 669 in text, answer Grade 8 Intermediate Test Practice numbers 1,2,3.

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48. On page 669, Read Document 1 under Document Based Questions.

What does Tarbell say is the goal of a trust?

Read Document 2:

What aspect of tenement living is Riis describing in this excerpt?

Review: You are required to remember the following concepts for the test:

• The 3/5 compromise

• Land ordinance of 1785

• Federalists and Anti-federalists

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