Progressive Era

Question 1

List three benefits John d Rockefeller gave to society

Answer 1

Refined oil, reduced prices so low so everyone could afford it, saved the whales

Question 2

List two ways Andrew Carnegie’s success in the steel business helped others

Answer 2

Others were able to get steel easier, able to build large buildings

Question 3

List three causes or factors that led to urbanization

Answer 3

The building of the railroads and steel, the industrial revolution, immigration

Question 4

Who was the author of the jungle

Answer 4

Upton Sinclair

Question 5

Describe progressive era

Answer 5

A period of social activism and political reform in the US that flourished from the late 1890s to the 1920s

Question 6

Initiative

Answer 6

Allows a citizen to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval

Question 7

Recall

Answer 7

The mechanism that enables voters To remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office

Question 8

Referendum

Answer 8

The practice of letting voters except or reject measures proposed by the legislator

Question 9

Which woman advocated for woman suffrage

Answer 9

Susan B Anthony

Question 10

Which women advocated laws to be in child labor in laws limiting workday for women

Answer 10

Florence Kelly

Question 11

Who is most known for advocating prohibition of alcohol

Answer 11

Carrie nation

Question 12

What was amendment 16 about

Answer 12

Income tax

Question 13

What was amendment 17 about

Answer 13

Direct election of Senators

Question 14

Amendment in 18

Answer 14

Prohibition

Question 15

Amendment 19

Answer 15

Woman suffrage

Question 16

True or false, the trusts formed in the late 1800s acted as monopolies by cutting production in raising prices

Answer 16

Force

Question 17

True or false, the reforms of the progressive era rejected the founding fathers view on the role of government in the world for substantial growth in the size of the federal government

Answer 17

Falls

Question 18

Sure false, the jungle, inspired the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act even though the books description of meatpacking plants was fictitious

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Women suffrage

Answer 19

Right of women to vote in elections

Question 20

List three economic or social problems progressive is sought to solve

Answer 20

Poverty, women suffrage, and prohibition

Question 21

How did the role of government during the progressive era differ From the time of the nation’s founding?

Answer 21

This is one capitalism was put in a place where the economic system was being controlled the nation was founded as a republic where the people elected representatives to roll the difference is it changed between rude people old republic to a government ruling in capitalism