Unit 2 Review ■Groups will be presented a prompt

and will list as many correct answers as possible within 1 minute–Groups earn 1 point per correct

response

Causes of the Progressive Era#1 Name 3 problems in cities during the Gilded Age

#2 Name 2 problems with U.S. government in the Gilded Age

#3 Name 3 problems with business/workers in the Gilded Age

#4 What movement encouraged Christians to honor God by helping others and reforming society

#1 Rapid immigration, overcrowding, urban slums, poverty, tenements, corrupt political machines, dangerous working conditions in factories, alcohol abuse, prostitution

#2 Corruption, political machines, scandals, patronage

#3 Bad working conditions, low pay for factory work, low union membership, lots of unskilled workers, government support for big business, monopolies, government laissez-faire policies

#4 Social Gospel

Name the social reformer or their reform #1 ______ the first settlement house in Chicago #2 ______ child and women labor laws

#3 Margaret Sanger ______

#4 ______ fought for women’s suffrage

#5 Carrie Nation/Frances Willard ______

#6 YMCA ______

#1 Jane Addams

#2 Florence Kelley

#3 women’s birth control

#4 Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, NAWSA

#5 Temperance, prohibition

#6 Help to poor men

Investigative Journalism #1 Investigative journalists during the Progressive Era

were known as ______

#2 _____ exposed meatpacking industry #3 _____ exposed urban poverty in the slums #4 _____ exposed the Standard Oil monopoly

#1 Muckrakers

#2 Upton Sinclair #3 Jacob Riis

#4 Ida Tarbell

Social Reform Groups and Organizations#1 The first settlement house was called ______

#2 The WTCU focused its efforts on ______

#3 The NAWSA focused its efforts on ______

#4 The NAACP focused its efforts on ______

#5 The Niagara Movement focused on ______

#1 Hull House

#2 Temperance, prohibition

#3 Women’s suffrage

#4 Rights for African Americans

#5 Rights for African Americans

Western states were the most progressive because they were the first to…

#1 …offer suffrage to _____

#2 …allow citizens to vote for taxes called _____

#3 …allow citizens to create laws by signing petitions and voting on issue called _____

#4 …allow citizens remove elected officials on a special vote called _____

#5 …follow Governor Robert LaFollette’s plan called the “______” that regulated business, created an income tax, and allied experts with politicians

#1 Women

#2 Referendums

#3 Initiatives

#4 Recalls

#5 “Wisconsin Idea”

Progressive era amendments#1 16th Amendment

#2 17th Amendment

#3 18th Amendment

#4 19th Amendment

#1 Created a national income tax

#2 Allowed of the direct election of Senators

#3 Prohibition of alcohol

#4 Women’s suffrage

Cause and Effect Relationships#1 ____ Passage of the Meat Inspection Act (1906)

#2 ____ Passage of the Pendleton Act (1883)

#3 ____ TR worked out his “Square Deal”

#4 McKinley was assassinated in 1901 _____

#5 TR did not run for re-election in 1908 _____

#6 TR and Taft split the Republican vote in 1912 __

#1 Publication of The Jungle Passage of the Meat Inspection Act (1906)

#2 Patronage in government Passage of the Pendleton Act (1883)

#3 Coal miners went on strike TR worked out his “Square Deal”

#4 McKinley was assassinated in 1901 TR became president

#5 TR did not run for re-election in 1908 Taft was nominated as president

#6 TR and Taft split the Republican vote in 1912 Democrat Wilson won the presidential election

Political Reforms #1 Name one of the two laws or agencies that were

created during the Gilded Age but were used in the Progressive Era to regulate big businesses

#2 Which two U.S. presidents were best known as “trustbusters”?

#3 Theodore Roosevelt began the first _____ program to protect America’s natural resources and parks

#4 Name the two laws Congress passed during TR’s presidency that protected consumers

#5 What was the first monopoly to be “busted”?

#1 Sherman Anti-Trust Act or Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

#2 Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft

#3 conservation

#4 Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act

#5 Northern Securities Company

Which U.S. President? #1 Which president created the Dept of Labor and

Children’s Bureau?

#2 Which president disappointed progressives by allowing conservation land to be sold?

#3 Which president pushed for the Clayton Anti-Trust Act and Federal Trade Commission?

#4 Which president created the Federal Reserve?

#5 Which president ran as a “Bull Moose” Progressive Party candidate in the 1912 election?

#1 William Howard Taft

#2 William Howard Taft

#3 Woodrow Wilson

#4 Woodrow Wilson

#5 Theodore Roosevelt