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Progressivism
Chapter 21
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The effort to regulate and control big business. | Progressivism |
| A ballot in which votes are cast in secret. | Secret Ballot |
| What party name does IWW stand for? | Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
| What association was formed on February 18, 1890 to work for women's suffrage in the United States by two major women's groups? | National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) |
| This act made the ICC a more powerful and more active body. | The Hepburn Act |
| A domestic policy was adopted by the President Roosevelt in which he pledged not to favor any group of Americans but to be fair to all. | The Square Deal |
| One who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," popularized 1906 in speech by Roosevelt. | Muckraker |
| The protection of plants, animals, and natural areas is called? | Conservation |
| Collection of speeches Wilson made during his presidential campaign of1912. Promised significant reforms for greater economic opportunity for all, while ensuring the tradition of limited government. | New Freedom |
| This brought the first significant reduction of duties since before the Civil War. | Underwood Tariff |
| This act gave the country a central banking system for the first time since Jackson destroyed the Bank of the United States. | Federal Reserve Act |
| This act made certain specific business practices illegal. | Clayton Antitrust Act |
| A black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. | Niagara Movement |
| An African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 dedicated to the eradication of racial discrimination. | Natural Assoc. for the Adv. of Colored People (NAACP) |
| An espousal of active federal intervention to promote social justice and the economic welfare of the underprivileged by Roosevelt. | New Nationalism |
| The struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the overall women’s rights movement. | Woman Suffrage |
| An election in which voters choose candidates to run on a party's ticket in a subsequent election for public office. | Direct Primary |
| What factory was in New York City that lead young factory girls leap to their death from many stories of the building during a fire? | The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
| The United States Constitution established the election of United States Senators by the people of the states. | 17th Amendment |
| The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. | !6th Amendment |