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Mannix SS Chapter 19
The Progressive Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| civil service | system that includes most gov't jobs |
| primary | an election where voters choose their party's candidates |
| recall | people vote to remove an elected official |
| initiative | allows voters to put a bill before a state |
| referendum | a way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law |
| graduated income tax | taxes people at different rates depending on income |
| muckraker | crusading journalist |
| Theodore Roosevelt | trustbuster |
| trustbuster | person working to destroy monopolies and trusts |
| conservation | protection of natural resources |
| national park | natural area protected and managed by the federal gov't |
| William Howard Taft | sercretary of war then president |
| Woodrow Wilson | democrat. president in 1912 |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | devised a detailed strategy to win suffrage |
| suffragist | people who worked for women's right to vote |
| Alice Paul | suffragist |
| Frances Willard | president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
| prohibition | a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol |
| Booker T. Washington | African American leader |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | first African American to receive a Ph. D from Harvard |
| lynching | murder by a mob |
| parochial school | schools sponsored by a church |
| anti-semitism | prejudice against Jews |