Name: ______________________

Patricio Ramírez Date: ___________

Progressive Reforms Assignment

Crossword Puzzle 24 Points - 2 Each

Fill in the crossword puzzle using information from the lesson and your own research.

Across d
2. when voters choose their
p r i m a r y i
party’s candidates for the
general election e s
4. man or woman who fought r e f e f e n d u n c
for women’s right to vote
e r
5. the passage of laws to
forbid the making or selling c h a r t b u s t e r i
of alcohol
e a m i
9. settling of a dispute by an
impartial outsider p n a r t e r c a t i o n

10. combination of a d r n i
companies
t r u s t i a t
11. the protection and
preservation of natural t m o t i
resources o i a
12. journalist who brought to n o t
light the dirt and corruption
underlying a c o n s e r v a t i o n i
society g v

Down e m u c k r a k e r
1. unequal treatment
because of race,religion, or ethnic background
3. gave voters the opportunity to accept or reject measures that the state legislature enacted
6. Mexican neighborhoods
7. allowed citizens to place a measure or an issue on the ballot in a state election
8. the spoils system
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Minorities in the Progressive Era 2 Points
Use the following questions to complete the map below. Write your answers to the questions
on the map itself. You may abbreviate if you wish.”

Niagara Falls
Du Bois
Niagara Movement

1. Find and label the Canadian city where a Harvard-educated African American helped launch a
movement for equality for his people. Next to the city, write his name and the name of the
movement.

2. Locate the institution that taught farming and industrial skills and was founded by a formerly
enslaved African American. A teacher there made important discoveries about plant products.
Label this institution and add the name of its founder. Also, name the man who improved the
economy of the South through his discoveries of plant products.

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Fill in the Blanks 13 Points
Fill in the blanks using the words in the Word Bank below. Write your answer in the space
provided.

Word Bank
Pure Food and Drug Act political machines
Sherman Antitrust Act Progressives
Seventeenth Amendment Pendleton Act
Interstate Commerce Act muckrakers
recall Socialists
civil service commissions
monopolies

___________________________
Political machines 1. Fighting Corruption
In the late 1800s, (1)___ often controlled local government.
___________________________
commissions 2. By 1917 (2)___ governed nearly 400 cities. President
Rutherford B. Hayes tried to change the spoils system by
reforming the (3)___. In 1883 Congress passed the (4)___,
___________________________
civil service 3.
which established the Civil Service Commission to set up
competitive examinations for federal jobs.
___________________________
Pendleton Act 4.
Controlling Business
___________________________
Sherman Antitrust Act 5. In 1890 Congress passed the (5)___, the first federal law
to control trusts and (6)___. In 1887 Congress passed the
(7)___, which required railroads to charge and publish “rea-
___________________________
monopolies 6.
sonable and just” rates.

___________________________
Socialists 7. The New Reformers
(8)___ believed a nation’s resources and major industries
___________________________
Progressives 8. should be owned and operated by the government on behalf
of the people. (9)___ believed that society was obligated to
protect and help all its members. Journalists who brought to
___________________________
muckrakers 9. light the dirt and corruption underlying society were called
(10)___. Congress passed the (11)___, requiring accurate
___________________________
Pure Food and Drug Act 10. labeling of food and medicine and banning the sale of
harmful food.
___________________________
recall 11.
Expanding Democracy
Oregon reforms included a direct primary election and the
___________________________
Seventeenth Amendment 12. initiative, the referendum, and the (12)___. In 1912 Congress
passed the (13)___, which provided for the direct election
___________________________
civil service 13. of senators.
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Women in the Progressive Era 6.5 Points - 1/2 Each

The Fact Bank below contains events related to the roles of women in American society during
the Progressive Era. Complete the time line by writing the correct letter on the line in each
box.

Fact Bank
A. Women from a network of African G. The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified,
American women’s clubs form the National allowing woman suffrage.
Association of Colored Women. H. Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
B. The National Woman Suffrage is established.
Association and the American Woman I. Women persuade Congress to create
Suffrage Association merge. the Children’s Bureau.
C. The Eighteenth Amendment, or J. Anti-Saloon League is founded.
Prohibition Law, is ratified.
K. Frances Willard becomes head of
D. Alice Paul starts the National Woman’s WTCU.
Party.
L. The National American Woman
E. Women at Seneca Falls Convention Suffrage Association grows to two million
call for the right to vote. members.
F. The state of Wyoming allows M. Women’s groups and working-class
woman suffrage. women unite to form the Women’s Trade
Union League.

D I 3 11

B L

H A

p F K J

M C

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Progressive Presidents 8 Points - 1/2 Each

Using the fact bank below, insert the number of the fact(s) that correspond with each of the
progressive presidents. You will use each fact only once.

Progressive
Presidents
Theodore William
Roosevelt Howard Taft
3 11
___________________________ 2
___________________________

7 14
_________________________ 6
_________________________

9 16
_____________________ 15
_____________________

Woodrow
Wilson
1 12
___________________________

8 13 5
_________________________

4 10
_____________________

Fact Bank
1. Federal Reserve Act 10. achieved tariff reform
2. supported Safety standards for mines 11. first environmental President
and railroads 12. supported Clayton Antitrust Act
3. Bull Moose Party 13. called his program “New Freedom”
4. supported Sixteenth Amendment 14. formed the National Conservation
5. Federal Trade Commission Commission
6. elected president in 1908 15. disappointed progressives in the areas
7. promised voters a “square deal” of tariff and conservation
8. elected President in 1912 16. became President in 1901, after
President McKinley’s assassination
9. nicknamed “trustbuster”

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 8 Points
Roosevelt’s Conservation—Understanding Information
In 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt included the following quotation in his annual message to
Congress. Write V if the statement seems valid based on Roosevelt’s message to Congress and I
if it seems invalid. Correct each invalid statement so that it is true. (Hint: There are three invalid
statements. Don’t forget to correct them!)

We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so. The
mineral wealth of the country, the coal, iron, oil, gas, and the like, does not reproduce itself,
and therefore is certain to be exhausted ultimately; and wastefulness in dealing with it today
means that our descendants will feel the exhaustion a generation or two before they other-
wise would.

SOURCE: Baily, Thomas A. and David M. Kennedy. The American Pageant, A History of the
Republic, Stanford University.

I
_____ 1. Roosevelt was unaware of the variety of natural resources in the United States.
Roosevelt was aware of the variety of natural resources in the United States
______________________________________________________________________________
I
_____ 2. Roosevelt believed that every mineral resource should be left alone.
Roosevelt believed that every mineral resource should not be left alone.
______________________________________________________________________________
V
_____ 3. Roosevelt recognized that some natural resources could be totally used up.

______________________________________________________________________________
V
_____ 4. Roosevelt believed that conserving resources was vital to future generations.

______________________________________________________________________________
I
_____ 5. Roosevelt was more concerned with preserving resources for their beauty that using
them intelligently.
Roosevelt was more concerned with preserving resources intelligently than for their
______________________________________________________________________________
beauty.