1. Chapter 9 Test
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

2. Reform movement that sought to return control of the government to the people

3. Progressivism

4. President of the United States who was a former president of Princeton University and Governor of New Jersey

5. Woodrow Wilson

6. An advocate for improving the lives of women and children

7. Florence Kelly

8. Muckraking journalist who exposed the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry

9. Upton Sinclair

10. The movement to protect America’s natural resources

11. Conservation

12. The term used to describe the progressive reforms of President Theodore Roosevelt

13. Square Deal

14. Watchdog agency given the power to stop unfair business practices

15. Federal Trade Commission

16. President whose actions split the Republican party after he angered both progressives and conservationists

17. William H. Taft

18. A plan that reformed how American banks were organized

19. Federal Reserve System

20. A leader of the woman suffrage movement

21. Susan B. Anthony

22. What are three goals of Progressivism?

23. Protecting social welfare
Creating economic reform
Fostering efficiency in the workplace

24. What were muckrakers?

25. Journalists

26. What is an initiative?

27. A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators

28. In the mid-1800s, the majority of women who held jobs worked as…

29. servants

30. Name three famous suffragettes.

31. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt

32. Who wrote The Jungle, and what did it expose?

33. Upton Sinclair
It exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry

34. Who was the first person to use the presidency as a “bully pulpit”?

35. Theodore Roosevelt

36. What law required truthful labels?

37. Pure Food and Drug Act

38. What was the primary goal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

39. Equality among the races

40. Who were the reform candidates in the election of 1912?

41. Eugene V. Debs
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson

42. Essay
Which groups benefited from the reforms in the Progressive Era? Which groups did not benefit? Explain

43. Average citizens
Women
Children
African Americans

44. Essay
What kind of lives do you think the boys in the photograph have? Explain.

45. Essay
What are some of the abuses and problems at the turn of the 20th century that progressive reformers sought to address? What techniques did reformers use to influence public opinion?

46. End the use or abuse of alcohol
Hunger among poor people
Child labor
Improving lives of working families