Quiz

Question 1

progressive movement

Answer 1

Social reform movement in the early 20th century

Question 2

Seventeeth Amendment

Answer 2

Amendment providing the senators to be elected directly

Question 3

recall

Answer 3

a vote on whether to remove a public official from office

Question 4

referendum

Answer 4

A way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote

Question 5

prohibition

Answer 5

making the sale or use of alcohol illegal

Question 6

Roosevelt

Answer 6

President of 1901 to 1909

Question 7

Square deal

Answer 7

Roosevelt program of progressive reformers

Question 8

Novelist who exposed social problems

Answer 8

Upton sinclair

Question 9

Meat inspection Act

Answer 9

Law reforming meatpacking conditions in 1906

Question 10

National Association for the Advancement of Colored people founded in 1909 for racial equality

Answer 10

NAACP

Question 11

How did reformers try to make businesses more efficient and profitable?

Answer 11

promoted the idea of scientific management

Question 12

What are three ways progressive reforms helped ordinary people?

Answer 12

1. YMCA built libraries and exercise rooms.
2. The Salvation Army fed poor people in the cities and cared for children in nurseries.
3. Settlement houses helped families.

Question 13

How did Roosevelt use the power of the federal government to change business practices?

Answer 13

sue harmful trusts under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

Question 14

Who formed the Bull Moose party

Answer 14

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 15

What did Wilson have in common with Roosevelt with debs

Answer 15

Wilson and Roosevelt wanted to give government stronger role in economy. Wilson opposed all business monopolies or trusts and Debs went even further.

Question 16

progressive wanted to reform government by

Answer 16

making it more efficient and responsive to the people

Question 17

What was the most important reason the progressive movement lost power

Answer 17

International problems became more important than national reforms

Question 18

Which two goals of the progressive movement had the strongest support from churches

Answer 18

1. protecting social welfare
2. promoting moral improvement