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Quarter 3 The Progressive Era Benchmark (1/22/2025)

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Question 2
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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.
Question 3
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Select all responses that describe the chart cited above.

Question 4
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Question 5
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Select all responses that describe the music lyrics cited above.

Question 6
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Select all responses that describe the photograph cited above.

Question 7
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Question 8
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Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Question 9
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Question 11
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Question 12
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Question 13
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Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Question 14
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Question 15
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Question 16
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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 Monopolies
Question 17
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Question 18
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Question 19
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Match with respective legislation

Draggable itemarrow_right_altCorresponding Item
Establishes the National Park Service
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The Organic Act
Upton Sinclair The Jungle
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Meat inspection Act
Enforces the eighteenth amendment
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Volstead Act
Question 20
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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
Question 21
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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

Question 22
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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.
Question 23
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Question 24
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Select all correct responses:
The term "participate" in except above refers to which of the following:

Question 25
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Identify the year the Declaration of Independence was signed

Question 26
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Identify the year the U.S. Constitution was signed

Question 27
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Identify the date the Bill of Rights was signed

Question 28
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Question 29
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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.
Hiram Johnson sought way to protect monopolies
An advocate of initiative, recall and referendum
A method of denying the fifteenth amendment to Americans of African descent
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
Initiative gave citizens more direct voice in government
Initiative made elected official more directly accountable to their constituents
Initiative was a scheme to deny citizens suffrage
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 constitutional amendment recognizing suffrage for Black men.
A constitutional amendment was ratified to that required senators to to be elected directly by popular vote.
Passage of the seventeenth amendment.
A constitutional amendment recognizing suffrage for women
The ability of the constitution to evolve over time is why it is referred to as a living document
A change to the constitution that made government more responsive to people.
The song was part of a national movement to prohibit alcohol beverages
Led to the passage of a constitutional amendment
Music lyrics that described the life of Robber Barons
An example of the music played during the Roaring Twenties
The effects of Jim Crow laws in education
Depict a typical school house at the start of twentieth century
Depict the need for child labor reforms
An example of Muckraker journalism

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above.
Advocates of women's suffrage
Women sought more opportunities to influence government
Lowering the voting age to eighteen
Seeking ratification of the nineteenth amendment
Seeking ratification of the fifteenth amendment
Removing gender barriers to voting in federal elections
Stronger and cheaper material for building railroads and bridges
The invention of the lightbulb allowing factories to run at night
The mass production of steel allowed for taller buildings
The invention of the telephone allowing faster communication
The invention of new process for manufacturing steel




Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.
altered the make up of the natural ecosystem
Economic transformation
increased migration to urban areas
The effects of rapid industrialization
Results of cultural assimilation
Results of the Homestead Act
The change from a mostly rural society to a mostly urban society
Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.
The Federal government regulated the food industry in order to protect the health of the public
An example of Muckraker Journalism
Publication protected by the First Amendment
Literature that led to the passage of the Meat Inspection act and the Pure food and Drug Act
Will Lead to the passage of the 18th amendment
Will lead to anti-Lassie faire legislation
Literature that led to the passage of anti-trust legislation
An example of the consequences of Lassie faire economics
Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.
Started an organization to help secure full legal equality for minority citizens
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
A member of the Populitst party
Wanted Americans of African descent to learn a trade such as welding, plumbing or carpentry
An advocate of the Bill of Rights



Select all responses that describe the bullet points cited above.
1890-1910 approx.
Promoted the general welfare of Americans
Increased opportunities for regular citizens to influence government
Abolished slavery
Increased credit availability through the introduction of silver backed currency
Progressive Era accomplishments
Defined citizenship
Prohibited the sale and distribution of alcohol
Wrestled the power of government away from monopolies
The inner workings of NAACP
Hull House located in Chicago i.e. settlement houses
Jane Adams and her programs for new immigrants
Assimilation of immigrants
Select all responses that describes the Newspaper Headline cited above:
enfranchisement
Prohibition
18th Amendment
Temperance
outlawed alcohol
Sobriety
Suffrage
Select all responses that describes the Newspaper Headline cited above:
16th Amendment
An attempt to ensure that no one person can afford to influence government officials through bribery
Establishes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
suffrage
legalizes segregation
Recognizes the U.S. Congress power to levy taxes
Helped ordinary people (workers)



Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above:
Union membership increased as workers sought better pay conditions
Led to passage of the 15th amendment
Led to passage of 14th Amendment
labor reformers secures better working conditions through organizing and popular protest
A need to address some of the problems caused by industrialization
development of labor unions
increase need to protect workers interest
Led to the passage of the 13th amendment





Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above:
National Parks were created as a way to mange land resources
established the income tax
Environmental Conservationism
Prevented the sale of alcohol
allowed women to vote
To preserve natural resources
manage wildlife and other natural resources and preserve them from urban expansion
The Organic Act
Setting aside millions of acres of land to posterity
Direct election of senators
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
Identify all the protections included in the First amendment
Right to Petition
Protection from unreasonable searches and seizures
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Expression
Freedom of/from Religion
Right to bear arms
Right to assemble peaceably
Right to protest