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Chapter 8.1.2.3.4
Chapter 8 Vocab
| Number | Word | Defination | Stuff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Progressivism | Movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms. | AustinH16 |
| 2 | Muckraker | Writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business. | austino11 |
| 3 | Social Gospel | Reform movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles. | |
| 4 | Settlement House | Community center organized at the turn of the twentieth century to provide social services to the urban and poor. | |
| 5 | Direct Primary | Election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections. | |
| 6 | Initiative | Process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot. | |
| 7 | Referendum | Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature. | |
| 8 | Recall | Process by which voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end. | |
| 9 | National Consumers League (NCL) | Group organized in 1899 to investigate the conditions under which goods were made and sold and to promote safe working conditions and a minimum wage. | |
| 10 | Temperance Movement | Movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problem created by it. | |
| 11 | Suffrage | The right to vote. | |
| 12 | National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) | Group founded in 1890 that worked on both the state and national levels to earn women the right to vote. | |
| 13 | Nineteenth Amendment | Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote. | |
| 14 | Americanization | Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens. | |
| 15 | Niagara Movement | Group of African American thinkers founded in 1905 that pushed for immediate racial reforms, particularly in education and voting practices. | |
| 16 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans. | |
| 17 | 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 cities. | |
| 18 | Anti-Defamation League | Organization formed in 1913 to defend Jews against physical and verbal attacks and false statements. | |
| 19 | Mutualistas | Organized groups of Mexican Americans that make loans and provide legal assistance to other members of their community. | |
| 20 | Square Deal | President Theodore Roosevelt's program of reforms to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor. | |
| 21 | Hepburn Act | 1902 law that gave the government the authority to set railroad rates and maximum prices for ferries, bridge tolls, and oil pipelines. | |
| 22 | Meat Inspection Act | 1906 law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants. | |
| 23 | Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs. | |
| 24 | National Reclamation Act | 1902 law that gave the federal government the power to decide where and how water would be distributed through the building and management of dams and irrigation projects. | |
| 25 | New Nationalism | President Theodore Roosevelt's plan to restore the government's trustbusting power. | |
| 26 | Progressive Party | Political party that emerged from the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Republican Party in 1912. | |
| 27 | New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson's program to place government controls on corporations in order to benefit small business. | |
| 28 | Sixteenth Amendment | 1913 Constitutional amendment that gave Congress the authority to levy an income tax. | |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Act | 1913 law that placed national banks under the control of a Federal Reserve Board, which runs regional banks that hold the reserve funds from commercial banks, set interests rates, and supervises commercial banks. | |
| 30 | Federal Trade Commission | Government agency established in 1914 to identify monopolistic business practices, false advertising, and dishonest labeling. | |
| 31 | Clayton Antitrust Act | 1914 law that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act. | |