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History
Vocabulary
| Vocabulary | Answers |
|---|---|
| muckrackers | writing progressive ideas |
| progressivism | a political movement that crossed party lines |
| Jacob Riis | descriced the poverty,disease and crime |
| comission plan | a citys governnment that crossed poverty lines |
| Robert La Follett | Wisconsin governor (attacked ways political parties ran their government |
| deirect primary | all party members could vote for acanidate to run in the general election |
| initiative | a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required legislature to vote on it |
| referendum | proposed legislation to be submitted to the voters for approval |
| recall | demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before term is up |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| Alice Paul | Quaker social worker who headed NAWSA congressional commitee |
| temperance | advocated the moderation of elimination of alcohol |
| prohibition | laws banning the manufacture, slae, and consumption of alcohol |
| socialism | idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole |
| Square Deal | Roosevelt reform programs |
| Norhern Securities | holding company |
| United Mine Workers | strike of the miners who dug anthracite or hard coal |
| arbitration | settlement imposed by an outside party |
| Hepburn Act | intended to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |
| Joseph Cannon | appointed all committees and decided which bills they handled |
| Payne Aldrich Tariff | cut tariffs hardly at all and actually raised them on some goods |
| Richard Balinger | conservative lawyer |
| syndicate | business group for personal profit |
| insubordination | disobedience |
| 16th amendment | Income Tax |
| 17th amendment | Direct election of senators |
| 18 th amendment | prohibition |
| 19 th Amendment | womans suffrage |