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Chapter 8 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Progressivism | a movement that believes that new ideas and honest, efficient govt. could bring about socia justice |
| Muckraker | a tool used to clean manure and hay out of animals' stables |
| Social Gospel | reform movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century that sought ot improve society by appyling Christainn principles |
| Settlement House | a community center that provided social services to the urban poor |
| Direct Primary | an election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections |
| Initaitive | gave people the power to put a propsed new law directly on the ballot in the next election by collecting citizens' signatures on a petition |
| Referendum | allowed citizens to approve or reject laws passed by legislators |
| Recall | gave voters power to remove public servants from office before their terms ended |
| National Consumers League | gave special labels to "good produced under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions" and urged women to buy them and avoid products that did not have these labels |
| Temperance Movement | this group promoted temperance, the practice of never drinking alcohol. |
| National American Woman Suffrage Association | group founded in 1890 that worked on both the state and national levels to earn women the right to vote |
| Nineteenth Amendment | stated the right that the right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged on the account of sex." |
| Americanization | belief thatassimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens |
| Niagara Movement | denounced the idea of gradual progress |
| National Association for the Advencemnt of Colored People | it aimed to help African Americans be "physically free from disfranchisement, and socially free from insult" |
| Urban League | network of churches and clubs that set up employment agencies and relief efforts to help African Americans get settled and find work in the citites |
| Anti-Defamation League | its goal was and still is- to defend the Jews and otheres aganist physical and verbal attacks, false statements, and "to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike" |
| mutualistas | groups that made loans and provided leagl assistance |
| Square Deal | a program that its goals were to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor |
| Hepburn Act | gave the TCC strong enforcement powers |
| Meat Inspection Act | 1906 law that allowed federal govt. to inspect meat sold across state lines |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medecine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs |
| National Reclamation Act | gave the federsl goverment the power to decide where and how water would be distributed |
| New Nationalism | a program to restore the government's trustbusting power |
| Progressive Party | political party that emerged from the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Rep. Party in 1912 |
| New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson's program to place controls on small corp. in order to benefitm small buisnesses |
| 16th Admendent | gave congress authority to levy an income tax |
| Federal Trade Commission | to identify monopolitic business practices |
| Federal Reserve Act | this law placed national banks under the control of a Federal Reserve Board |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | whic strengthened earlier antitrsut laws by spelling out those activities in which businesses could not engage |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
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