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ohs ch8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| progressivism | new ideas and honest, effecient government could bring about social justice |
| muckraker | a journalist |
| Social Gospel | by following the Vible's teachings about charity and justic, people could make society "the kingdom of God" |
| settlement house | community center that provided social child care and taught English to immigrants |
| direct primary | an election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections |
| initiative | gave people the power to put a proposed new law directlu on the ballot in the next election by collecting citizens' signatures on a petition |
| referendum | allowed citizens to approve or reject laws pased by a legislature |
| recall | gave voters the power to remove public servants form office before their terms ended |
| NCL | National Consumers League- gave special labels to "goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions" |
| temperance movement | the practice of never drinking alcohol |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| NAWSA | National American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Nineteenth Amendment | woman suffrage |
| Americanization | the process of learning English and adopting the lifestyle of an American |
| Niagara Movement | denounced the idea of gradual progress |
| NAACP | aimed to help black be fully free |
| Urban League | helped poor workers |
| Anti-Defamation League | defend Jews and others from physical and verbal attacks |
| mutualistas | groups that made loans provided legal assistance |
| Square Deal Hepburn Act | its goals were to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor |
| Meat Inspection Act | provided federal agents to inspect any meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat-processing plants |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | placed controls on other foods and on medicines |
| National Reclamation Act | gave the government power to decide where and how water would be distributed |
| New Nationalism | a program to restore the government's trustbusting power |
| Progressive Party | a republican party in which Roosevelt was the leader |
| New Freedom | placed strict government controls on corporations |
| Sixteenth Amendment | gave congress the power to make increased income tax |
| Federal Reserve Act | this law placed national backs under the conrol of a Federal Reserve Board |
| Federal Trade Commission | monitor business practices that might lead to a monopoly |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | strengthened earlier antitrust laws by spelling out those activities in which businesses could not engage |
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