2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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”

8. Progressive era amendments
#1 Created a national income tax
#2 Allowed of the direct election of Senators
#3 Prohibition of alcohol
#4 Women’s suffrage
#1 16th Amendment
#2 17th Amendment
#3 18th Amendment
#4 19th Amendment

9. Cause and Effect Relationships
#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
#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  __

10. Political Reforms
#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
#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”?

11. Which U.S. President? #1 William Howard Taft #2 William Howard Taft
#3 Woodrow Wilson
#4 Woodrow Wilson
#5 Theodore Roosevelt
#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?