Edit Game
11.5 USHG - Gilded Age & Progressive Era
 Delete

Use commas to add multiple tags

 Private  Unlisted  Public



 Save

Delimiter between question and answer:

Tips:

  • No column headers.
  • Each line maps to a question.
  • If the delimiter is used in a question, the question should be surrounded by double quotes: "My, question","My, answer"
  • The first answer in the multiple choice question must be the correct answer.






 Save   32  Close
A major goal of the Progressive movement was to
 
Promote fairness and reduce corruption
 
Expand monopolies
 
Eliminate judicial review
 
End federal income taxes
Jane Addams is remembered for
 
Creating settlement houses to aid the poor
 
Leading anti-immigrant protests
 
Defending monopolies in court
 
Organizing railroad strikes
The Pure Food and Drug Act aimed to
 
Ensure safe labeling and clean products
 
Encourage meat exports
 
Stop farmers from overplanting
 
Increase prescription costs
Theodore Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” focused on
 
Regulating corporations and protecting consumers
 
Lowering property taxes
 
Ending factory inspections
 
Raising tariffs on imports
The 19th Amendment granted
 
Women the right to vote
 
African Americans citizenship
 
All immigrants U.S. visas
 
The banning of alcohol
The 18th Amendment was related to
 
Prohibiting alcohol sales
 
Ending child labor
 
Reforming elections
 
Banning immigration
The 17th Amendment allowed
 
Voters to elect U.S. senators directly
 
Secret ballots for primaries
 
Immigrants to hold office
 
Federal judges to serve longer terms
The 16th Amendment gave Congress the power to
 
Collect income taxes
 
Regulate trade
 
Set interest rates
 
Control state budgets
A referendum allows citizens to
 
Approve or reject laws directly
 
Vote on court decisions
 
Appoint government officials
 
Raise their own taxes
Progressive reformers believed in
 
Government action to solve social problems
 
Business control of elections
 
Strengthening the spoils system
 
Ending all regulations
Jacob Riis’s work highlighted
 
Poor conditions in city tenements
 
Racial injustice in the South
 
Corruption in foreign trade
 
Failures of the Reconstruction Amendments
Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle led to
 
Passage of food safety regulations
 
Railroad antitrust laws
 
A drop in food prices
 
Growth of meat exports
Muckrakers were
 
Writers who exposed corruption and injustice
 
Politicians who favored trusts
 
Bankers who funded reforms
 
Businessmen who ran monopolies
The Granger movement helped farmers by
 
Fighting unfair railroad rates
 
Reducing voting requirements
 
Encouraging westward migration
 
Eliminating the income tax
The Populist Party demanded reforms like
 
Free coinage of silver and railroad regulation
 
Factory ownership for women
 
An end to the gold standard
 
Abolition of paper currency
The Pendleton Act helped reform
 
The federal civil service system
 
Immigration quotas
 
Labor union elections
 
Tariff rates
Political machines gained support by
 
Providing jobs and services to immigrants
 
Attacking labor unions
 
Enforcing literacy tests
 
Supporting Prohibition laws
Tenements were known for being
 
Crowded and unsanitary urban buildings
 
Large family estates
 
Well-regulated by health codes
 
Located on the outskirts of towns
A common push factor for immigrants was
 
Persecution and poverty in home countries
 
Access to Western land
 
A growing U.S. middle class
 
American public schools
Most “New Immigrants” came from
 
Southern and Eastern Europe
 
Africa and Asia
 
Northern Europe and Scandinavia
 
South America and Australia
The Haymarket Affair caused
 
Public fear of unions and anarchists
 
Anti-trust laws to expand
 
Major tariff reductions
 
Trust in labor leaders to increase
Both the Knights of Labor and the AFL supported
 
Better pay and shorter workdays
 
Business mergers
 
Government-run factories
 
Reduced immigration
Workers formed labor unions to
 
Improve wages and working conditions
 
Buy shares in companies
 
End voting restrictions
 
Avoid paying income taxes
The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed to
 
Reduce the influence of monopolies
 
Limit the power of farmers’ cooperatives
 
Encourage foreign imports
 
Control state legislatures
The rise of monopolies in the Gilded Age led to
 
Less competition and higher prices
 
Greater product variety for consumers
 
Stronger worker protections
 
Fewer strikes and lockouts
Rockefeller used horizontal integration to
 
Control other companies in the same industry
 
Hire immigrant workers
 
Promote anti-trust legislation
 
Partner with labor unions
Andrew Carnegie is known for his work in
 
Steel production and philanthropy
 
The oil and gas industries
 
Railroad construction across Canada
 
Reforming the stock market
The Bessemer process was essential to
 
Producing strong, inexpensive steel
 
Shipping grain by rail
 
Extracting coal from the West
 
Building cotton gins in factories
“Robber baron” was a term used to criticize
 
Business leaders who used ruthless tactics for wealth
 
Civil War generals who entered politics
 
Farmers who raised crop prices
 
Judges who ruled against big business
Laissez-faire capitalism is the belief that
 
The economy functions best with little government
 
The government should set all prices
 
Unions must approve business practices
 
Foreign trade should be banned
A major reason for industrial growth after the Civil War was
 
Expansion of railroads and a large labor force
 
Declining immigration to cities
 
Limited access to energy resources
 
Government takeover of businesses
The term “Gilded Age” refers to a period when
 
Wealth and industrial growth masked serious social problems
 
Democracy expanded for all citizens
 
Agriculture became the leading industry
 
Political equality increased for minorities