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Progressivism
Katie Chaplin and Emily Goodman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allows voters to put a proposed law on the ballot for public approval | Initiative |
| Allows citizens to place a recently passed law on the ballot, allowing voters to approve or reject the measure. | Referendum |
| Enables citizens to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election | Recall |
| This amendment gave voters, rather than state legislatures, the power to directly elect their US senators | Seventeenth Amendment |
| Ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages | Prohibition Movement |
| Amendment that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages | Eighteenth Amendment |
| One of the largest organizations of African American women founded in 1896 | National Association of Colored Women |
| A powerful platform to publicize important issues and seek support for his policies | Bully Pulpit |
| Roosevelt's 1904 campaign slogan and the frame work for his entire presidency | Square Deal |
| This prohibited railroads from accepting rebates | Elkins Act |
| Strengthened the ICC giving it the power to set maximum railroad rates | Hepburn Act |
| Required federal inspection of meat shipped across state lines | Meat Inspection Act |
| Allowed the federal government to create irrigation projects to make dry lands productive | Newlands Reclamation Act |
| This amendment granted congress the power to levy taxes based on individual's income | Sixteenth Amendment |
| This Amendment finally gave women full voting rights. | Nineteenth Amendment |