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Chapt. 8 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.Progressivism | Progressives believed that new ideas and honest, efficient government could bring about social justices. |
| 2.Muckracker | Writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business. |
| 3.Social Gospel | Reform movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles. |
| 4.Settlement Houses | A community center that provided social services to the poor. |
| 5.Direct Primary | An election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections. |
| 6.Initiative | Gave people the power to put a proposed new law directly on the ballet in the next election by collecting citizens' signatures on a petition. |
| 7.Referendum | Allowed citizens to reject or approve laws passed by a legislature. |
| 8.Recall | Gave voters the power to remove public officials from office before their terms ended. |
| 9.National Consumers League(NCL) | Gave special labels to goods that were produced under safe, healthy, and fair working conditions. |
| 10.Temperance Movement | Movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems 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 | Stated that the right to vote "Shall not be denied on account of sex". |
| 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 f 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 | Groups that made loans and provided legal assistance. |
| 20.Square Deal | Keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor. |
| 21.Hepburn Act | 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 | 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 | 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 | Law that gave the federal government power to decide where and how the water would be distributed through the building and management of dams and irrigation projects. |
| 25.New Nationalism | A program to restore the government's trust busting 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 businesses. |
| 28.Sixteenth Amendment | Gave congress the power to levy an income tax. |
| 29.Federal Reserve Act | Placed national banks under the control of a Federal Reserve Board, which set up regional banks to hold the reserve funds from commercial banks. |
| 30.Federal Trade Commission (FTC) | Members who were named by the President had to monitor business practices that might lead to monopoly. |
| 31.Clayton Antitrust Act | Strengthened earlier antitrust laws by spelling out those activities in which those businesses could not engage in. |