The Progressive Era Benchmark

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34 questions

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The Progressive Era Benchmark

Last updated about 2 months ago

34 questions

Instructions

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Direct democracy, for better or for worse, has become California's most distinctive and emblematic political institution. __________, __________, and__________ elections were added to the state constitution in 1911 as part of Governor Hiram Johnson's “progressive” movement, which redeemed the state from control by “The Octopus”, meaning the Southern Pacific Railroad monopoly that had a stranglehold on the state's economy and government.

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Select all responses that describe the chart cited above.

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Select all responses that describe the music lyrics cited above.

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Select all responses that describe the photograph cited above.

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Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

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Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

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Place response in appropriate category

Federal courts ruled against those leading boycotts and strikes
The Federal government sent troops to break up strikes
President Grover Cleveland signed an act making Labor day a national holiday.
Union officials were arrested for asserting their first amendment rights by picketing
Collective bargaining is the process in which working people, through their unions, negotiate contracts with their employers to determine their terms of employment, including pay, benefits, hours, leave, job health and safety policies, ways to balance work and family, and more.

Helped private business

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Match with respective legislation

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Anti- Laissez Faire legislation		Interstate Commerce Act
Upton Sinclair The Jungle

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Select the phrase that recognizes enfranchisement of citizens:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government

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Which of the following responses is the primary reason for the Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, and The Bill of Rights

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created __________, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain__________ Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the __________ of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to __________ or to__________ it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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Select all correct responses:
The term "participate" in except above refers to which of the following:

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Identify the year the Declaration of Independence was signed

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Identify the year the U.S. Constitution was signed

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Identify the date the Bill of Rights was signed

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Which of the following is the primary method the United States generates wealth?

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Why has the U.S. Constitution been able to endure and be relevant for over two hundred years ?

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Write a constructive response explaining the goal of the Progressive Era and its accomplishments.

Select all responses that describe the except cited above.

Direct democracy, for better or for worse, has become California's most distinctive and emblematic political institution. __________, __________, and__________ elections were added to the state constitution in 1911 as part of Governor Hiram Johnson's “progressive” movement, which redeemed the state from control by “The Octopus”, meaning the Southern Pacific Railroad monopoly that had a stranglehold on the state's economy and government.

Select all responses that describe the chart cited above.

Select all of the following measures that were implemented in 1913 to solve the problems listed above:

Select all responses that describe the music lyrics cited above.

Select all responses that describe the photograph cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Select all responses that describe the bullet points cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Select all responses that describes the Newspaper Headline cited above:

Place response in appropriate category

Federal courts ruled against those leading boycotts and strikes
The Federal government sent troops to break up strikes
President Grover Cleveland signed an act making Labor day a national holiday.
Union officials were arrested for asserting their first amendment rights by picketing
Collective bargaining is the process in which working people, through their unions, negotiate contracts with their employers to determine their terms of employment, including pay, benefits, hours, leave, job health and safety policies, ways to balance work and family, and more.

Helped private business
Helped workers

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above:

Populist
Progressives
Both

Match with respective legislation

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Anti- Laissez Faire legislation		Interstate Commerce Act
Upton Sinclair The Jungle		Chinese Exclusion Act
Enforces the eighteenth amendment		The Organic Act
Nativist Law		Meat inspection Act
Establishes the National Park Service		Volstead Act

Select the phrase that recognizes enfranchisement of citizens:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government

Select all correct responses describing the list above

Which of the following responses is the primary reason for the Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, and The Bill of Rights

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created __________, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain__________ Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the __________ of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to __________ or to__________ it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Identify the types of governments that recognize the enfranchisement of citizens

Select all correct responses:
The term "participate" in except above refers to which of the following:

Which actions demonstrate a citizens civic responsibilities?
Select all correct responses:

Identify the year the Declaration of Independence was signed

Identify the year the U.S. Constitution was signed

Identify the date the Bill of Rights was signed

Which of the following is the primary method the United States generates wealth?

Identify all the protections included in the First amendment

Why has the U.S. Constitution been able to endure and be relevant for over two hundred years ?

Write a constructive response explaining the goal of the Progressive Era and its accomplishments.

Select all responses that describe the except cited above. 

Legislation at state level  would lead to the seventeenth amendment requiring direct election of senators  

Johnson wanted citizens have more direct influence on lawmakers 

The expansion of citizens direct participation in the democratic process   

A method of denying the fifteenth amendment to Americans of African descent 

An advocate of initiative, recall and referendum 

Hiram Johnson sought way to protect monopolies 

Initiative gave citizens more direct voice in government

Initiative was a form of philanthropy 

Initiative made elected official more  directly accountable to their constituents

The ballot is the piece of paper where you mark your vote 

Select all of the following measures that were implemented in 1913 to solve the problems listed above:

A change to the constitution that made government more responsive to people.

A constitutional amendment recognizing   suffrage for women 

A constitutional amendment recognizing suffrage for Black men. 

The ability of the constitution to evolve over time is why it is referred to as a living document   

A constitutional amendment was ratified to that required senators to to be elected directly by popular vote. 

Passage of the seventeenth amendment. 

Music lyrics that described the life of Robber Barons 

The song was part of a national movement to prohibit alcohol beverages 

Led to the passage of a constitutional amendment 

An example of the music played during the Roaring Twenties 

An example of Muckraker journalism 

Depict the need for child labor reforms 

The effects of Jim Crow laws in education 

Hired children as a cheap source of labor 

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above. 

Lowering the voting age to eighteen  

Seeking ratification of the fifteenth amendment 

Advocates of women's suffrage 

Seeking ratification of the nineteenth amendment  

Removing gender barriers to voting in federal elections 

Women sought more opportunities to influence government 

The mass production of steel allowed for taller buildings 

The invention of the telephone allowing faster communication 

The invention of the lightbulb allowing factories to run at night 

The invention of new process for manufacturing steel 

Stronger and cheaper material for building railroads and bridges 

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

The change from a mostly rural society to a mostly urban society

increased migration to urban areas 

Results of the Homestead Act 

altered the make up of the natural ecosystem 

Economic transformation 

The effects of rapid industrialization 

Results of cultural assimilation 

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Will Lead to the passage of the 18th amendment

The Federal government regulated the food industry in order to protect the health of the public  

Will lead to anti-Lassie faire legislation 

An example of Muckraker Journalism 

An example of the consequences of  Lassie faire economics  

Publication protected by the First Amendment 

Literature that led to the passage of the  Meat Inspection act and the Pure food and Drug Act 

Literature that led to the passage of anti-trust legislation  

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Instrumental in forming the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People  

The establishment  of one of the earliest Civil Rights groups in the United States 

Started an organization to help secure full legal equality for minority citizens  

An advocate of the Bill of Rights 

A member of the Populitst party

Wanted Americans of African descent to learn a trade such as welding, plumbing or carpentry   

Select all responses that describe the bullet points cited above. 

Defined citizenship 

Abolished slavery 

Increased opportunities for regular citizens to influence government  

1890-1910 approx. 

Promoted the general welfare of Americans

Wrestled the power of government away from monopolies 

Increased credit availability through the introduction of silver backed currency  

Prohibited the sale and distribution of alcohol 

Progressive Era accomplishments 

 Hull House located in Chicago i.e. settlement houses 

Assimilation of immigrants  

An example of political machines 

Jane Adams and her programs for new immigrants 

Select all responses that describes the Newspaper Headline cited above:

outlawed alcohol

18th Amendment 

Temperance

enfranchisement 

Prohibition

Sobriety 

Suffrage 

Select all responses that describes the Newspaper Headline cited above:

Recognizes the U.S. Congress power to levy taxes 

16th Amendment 

suffrage 

An attempt to ensure that no one person can afford to influence government officials through bribery 

legalizes segregation 

Establishes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Helped workers 

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above:

development of labor unions 

labor reformers secures better working conditions through organizing and popular protest 

Led to the passage of the 13th amendment 

A need to address some of the problems caused by  industrialization 

Led to passage of the 15th amendment 

Union membership increased as workers sought better pay conditions 

Led to passage of 14th Amendment 

increase need to protect workers interest  

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above:

To preserve natural resources 

Prevented the sale of alcohol 

established  the income tax 

Direct  election of senators 

Setting aside millions of acres of land to posterity 

manage wildlife and other natural resources and preserve them from urban expansion  

Environmental Conservationism 

allowed women to vote 

National Parks were created as a way to mange land resources 

Place in respective category 

Regulation  of Railroads 

Anti- Laissez Faire

Temperance 

18th Amendment 

17th amendment 

19th Amendment 

Income Tax 

Bimetallism 

Nativist attitudes 

enfranchisement for women  

16th Amendment 

Direct election of Senators 

Regulation of all economic activities 

Populist 

Progressives

Both 

Chinese Exclusion Act 

Enforces the eighteenth amendment  

The Organic Act 

Nativist Law 

Meat inspection Act 

Establishes the National Park Service 

Volstead Act 

Select all correct responses describing the list above

New Deal laws passed as a result of the Great Depression 

Farmers wanted an increase in the amount of money in circulation to lower interest rates on borrowing 

Populist Demands in the late 1800's 

Will lead to the passage of the 16th amendment 

Progressive demands of the early twentieth century 

Lead to the passage of the Interstate Commerce act 

Examples of a steps away from Lassie- faire economic policies

Suffrage for women 

Limit the power of government over citizens lives 

Identify the types of governments that recognize the enfranchisement of citizens  

Monoarchy

Constitutional Republics 

 Direct democracy 

Representative forms of government 

totalitarian forms of government 

dictatorships 

suffrage 

voting in local, state and national elections 

selective service requirement of 18 year old male citizens 

trying out for extra-curricular activities such as sports, drama club, and student council 

Which actions demonstrate a citizens civic responsibilities? 
Select all correct responses:  

voting in local, state and national elections

violently protesting an unjust law 

Registering with Selective Service 

paying taxes 

exercising your freedom of speech by threats 

attending jury duty 

being an informed and educated voter 

going to church every Sunday 

Identify all the protections included in the First amendment 

Right to bear arms 

Protection from unreasonable searches and seizures 

Right to assemble peaceably 

Freedom of/from Religion 

Freedom of Expression 

Right to Petition 

Right to protest 

Freedom of Speech 

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Select all responses that describe the chart cited above.

Select all responses that describe the music lyrics cited above.

Select all responses that describe the photograph cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Place response in appropriate category

Match with respective legislation

Select the phrase that recognizes enfranchisement of citizens:

Which of the following responses is the primary reason for the Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, and The Bill of Rights

Select all correct responses: The term "participate" in except above refers to which of the following:

Identify the year the Declaration of Independence was signed

Identify the year the U.S. Constitution was signed

Identify the date the Bill of Rights was signed

Which of the following is the primary method the United States generates wealth?

Why has the U.S. Constitution been able to endure and be relevant for over two hundred years ?

Write a constructive response explaining the goal of the Progressive Era and its accomplishments.

Select all responses that describe the except cited above.

Select all responses that describe the chart cited above.

Select all of the following measures that were implemented in 1913 to solve the problems listed above:

Select all responses that describe the music lyrics cited above.

Select all responses that describe the photograph cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Select all responses that describe the bullet points cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Select all responses that describes the Newspaper Headline cited above:

Select all responses that describes the Newspaper Headline cited above:

Place response in appropriate category

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above:

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above:

Place in respective category

Match with respective legislation

Select the phrase that recognizes enfranchisement of citizens:

Select all correct responses describing the list above

Which of the following responses is the primary reason for the Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, and The Bill of Rights

Identify the types of governments that recognize the enfranchisement of citizens

Select all correct responses: The term "participate" in except above refers to which of the following:

Which actions demonstrate a citizens civic responsibilities? Select all correct responses:

Identify the year the Declaration of Independence was signed

Identify the year the U.S. Constitution was signed

Identify the date the Bill of Rights was signed

Which of the following is the primary method the United States generates wealth?

Identify all the protections included in the First amendment

Why has the U.S. Constitution been able to endure and be relevant for over two hundred years ?

Write a constructive response explaining the goal of the Progressive Era and its accomplishments.

Select all correct responses:
The term "participate" in except above refers to which of the following:

Select all correct responses:
The term "participate" in except above refers to which of the following:

Which actions demonstrate a citizens civic responsibilities?
Select all correct responses: