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History
Chapter 13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| arbitration | a process where a dispute is submitted to an outside third party who brings a binding decision |
| prohibition | legally banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol |
| Alice Paul | RADICAL LEADER who picketed the White House to call attention to the women's suffrage movement |
| Square Deal | term for Theodore Roosevelt's plans to reform America |
| Susan B. Anthony | foremost leader and one of the founding members of the women's suffrage movement |
| Bull Moose | Nickname given the Progressive Party |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| NAACP | organization that used the legal system to gain equal rights for African Americans |
| temperance | the choice to use little or no alcohol |
| direct primary | an election where party members vote to decide who will be their candidate in a later general election |
| 16th Amendment | addition to the Constitution that allowed the federal government to tax people's earnings |
| Federal Reserve Act | set up 12 regional banks to serve as banks for banks and stabilize the economy |
| 17th Amendment | addition to the Constitution that provided for the direct election of U.S. Senators by the citizens of their state |
| recall | special election held to decide if an office holder should be removed from office before his term is over |
| muckrakers | writers who exposed the corruption of big business and the government and wrote about the terrible conditions in the slums |
| plurality | winning an election with the most votes, but not more than half of the votes |
| Jacob Riis | Author of "How the Other Half Lives, " a book that showed the horrible living conditions in the slums with writing and photographs |
| Progressivism | belief that industrialization and urbanization created many social problems and that the government should step in to help solve the problems |
| referendum | allows proposed legislation submitted to the voters for approval |
| Carrie Catt | leader credited with getting the amendment ratified that gave women the right to voteq |
| socialism | the idea that government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole |
| Eugene Debs | socialist candidate for President in 1912 |
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