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CH. 8 U.S. HIST
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Progressivism | New ideas and honest government could bring social justice. |
| 2. muckraker | Journalists and writers dramatized the need for reform. |
| 3. Licoln Steffens | managing editor of McClure's |
| 4. Jacob Riis | photographer for New York Evening Sun. |
| 5. Social Gospel | Book that followed the Bible's teachings about charity and justice. |
| 6. settlement house | A community center which provided social services to urban poor. |
| 7. Jane Addams | Leading figure in the settlement house movement. |
| 8. direct primary | Election where citizens select nominees for the upcoming election. |
| 9. initiative | Let people put a proposed new law directly on the ballot in the next election by collecting citizens signatures on a petition. |
| 10. referendum | Let citizens approve or reject lows passed by legislature. |
| 11. recall | Gave power to voters the power to remove public servants from office before their term ended. |
| 12. Florence Kelley | Believed that women were hurt by the unfair prices of goods they had to buy to run their homes. |
| 13.National Consumers League(NCL) | Special labels to "goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy working condition". |
| 14. temperance movement | This group practice never drinking alcohol. |
| 15. Margaret Sanger | Thought that family life and women's health would improve if mothers had fewer children. |
| 16. Ida B. Wells | Helped form NACW. |
| 17. suffrage | The right to vote. |
| 18. Carrie Chapman Catt. | A speaker urging women to join NAWSA. |
| 19. National American Woman Suffrage Association(NAWSA) | Group that fought for women's rights. |
| 20. Alice Paul | NAWSA best leader. |
| 21. 19th Amendment | Stated that the right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex". |
| 22. Americanization | Teaching immigrants English and helping the way they lived. |
| 23. Booker T. Washington | Told blacks to move slowly toward racial progress. |
| 24. W.E.B Du Bois | Wanted blacks to go against racial progress. |
| 25. Niagara Movement | A group that denounced the idea of gradual progress. |
| 26. NAACP | Helped blacks from low paid labor and politically free and socially free from insult. |
| 27. Urban League | 1911, 100 groups from churches and black clubs in cities joined together. |
| 28. Anti-Defamation League | Goal to protect Jews from physical and verbal attack. |
| 29. mutualistas | Groups that made loans and provided legal assistance. |
| 30. Theodore Roosevelt | president of 1901 |
| 31. Square Deal | Meant to keep the wealthy not take advantage of the poor. |
| 33. Hepburn Act | Game ICC strong enforcement powers. |
| 34. Meat Inspection Act | Required inspection on meat and workplace. |
| 35. Pure Food and Drug Act | Put government food safety on medicine too. |
| 36. John Muir | Efforts had led Congress to create Yosemite National Park in 1890. |
| 37. Gifford Pinchot | Led the Division of Forestry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
| 38. National Reclamation Act | Game federal government the power to decide where and how water would be distributed. |
| 39. New Nationalism | Program to restore the government's trustbusting power. |
| 40. Progressive Party | Part of the Republic party left and created this. |
| 41. Woodrow Wilson | Democratic candidate |
| 42. New Freedom | Strict government control on corporations. |
| 43. 16th Amendment | Lets Congress to create graduated income tax. |
| 44. Federal Reserve Act | Placed national banks under the control of a Federal Reserve Board. |
| 45. Federal Trade Commission | Watching over false advertising. |
| 46. Clayton Antitrust Act | Strengthened earlier antitrust laws by spelling out those activities in which businesses could not engage. |