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Chapter 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Progressivism | movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms |
| Muckraker | writer who uncovers and exposes misconducts in politics or business |
| Social Gospel | reforms movement that emerged in the late 19 century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles |
| Settlement Houses | Community center organized at the turn of the 29th century to provide social service to urban poor |
| Direct Primary | election in which the citizens themselves vote the nominees for up coming elections |
| Initiative | process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on a ballet |
| Referendum | allowed citizens to approve of reject laws passed by a legislature |
| Recall | gave voters the power to remove pubic servants from office before their term ended |
| 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 |
| Temperance movement | movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| National American women's suffrage association (NAWSA) | group founded in 1890that worked on both the state and national levels to earn women the right to vote |
| 19th amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| Americanization | assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens |
| Niagara Movement | group of African American thinkers that pushed for immediate racial reforms, particularly in education and voting practices |
| National association for the advancement of colored people(NAACP) | aimed to help African American be free from peonage, mentally free from ignorance political disfranchisement and social insult |
| Urban League | networks of churches and clubs that set up employment agencies and relief efforts to help African Americans get settled and false statements |
| Anti-Deformation League(1913) | Defended Jews against physical and verbal attacks and false statements |
| Mutualistic | group that made loans and provided legal assistance |
| Square Deal | kept the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor |
| Hepburn Act(1906) | law that gave the gov't the authority to set railroad rates and maximum prices for ferries, bridges tolls and oil pipe lines |
| Meat inspection act | provided federal agents to inspect meat sold across state line and required federal inspection of meat-processing plants |
| Pure food and drug act | federal inspection of food nd medicine and banned interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs |
| National reclamation acct | gave the federal gov't the power to decide where and how water would be distributed |
| New nationalism | President Theodore Roosevelt's plan to restore the gov'ts trust-busting power |
| Progressive party | political party that emerged from the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Republican Party in 1912 |
| New freedom | Woodrow Wilson program to place gov't controls on corporation in order to benefit small business |
| 16th amendment(1913) | gave congress the authority to levy an income tax |
| Federal reserve act(19130 | law that placed national banks under the control of a Federal Reserve Board, which set up regional banks to hold the reserve funds from commercial banks |
| federal Trade Commission (FTC)(1914) | gov't agency that identified monopolistic business practice, false advertising and dishonest labeling |
| Clayton Anti-trust Act(1914) | law that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust act |
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