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ch. 8 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.Progressivsism | movement of reform |
| 2.muckraker | writers who write about the misdeeds in politics or business |
| 3.Lincoln Steffens | muckraker that wrote for a magazine |
| 4.Jacob Riis | muckraker, photographer who showed how most americans lived..in dirty slums |
| 5.Social Gospel | reform movement in 19th century that tried to improve society by applying Christian principles |
| 6.settlement house | community center w/ housing for the poor that also provided services |
| 7.Jane Addams | woman in the settlement house movement |
| 8.direct primary | election in which citizens vote to select nominees |
| 9.initiative | gave people the power to put a proposed new law directly on a ballet in the next election by collecting signatures on a petition |
| 10.referendum | allowed citizens to approve or reject laws |
| 11.recall | gave voters power to remove public servants from office before their term ended |
| 12.Florence Kelley | founded the National Consumers League (NCL) |
| 13.NCL | National Consumers League, gave special labels to "goods produced under fair, safe, and healthly working conditions" |
| 14.temperance movement | promoted the practice of never drinking alcohol |
| 15.Margaret Sanger | believed that women's health would improve if they had fewer children |
| 16.Ida B Wells | helped form the NACW, helped to assist families strive for success and to help the less fortunate |
| 17.suffrage | the right to vote |
| 18.Carrie Chapman Catt | became president of NAWSA National American Women Suffrage Association |
| 19.NAWSA | National American Women Suffrage Association |
| 20.Alice Paul | educated woman who |
| 21.19th Amendment | gave blacks the right to vote |
| 22.Americanization | the process of turning immigrants into regular-everyday Americans |
| 23.Booker T. Washington | former slave who encouraged blacks to learn a trade and prove themselves equal before demanding equality |
| 24.W.E.B. Du Bois | white man believed that blacks should demand immediate equality |
| 25.Niagara Movement | 1905, pushed for immediate racial reforms mostly in education and voting. |
| 26.NAACP | National Association for the advancement of colored people |
| 27.Urban League | network of churches and clubs that set up employment agencies and relief efforts to help African Americans find work in the cities |
| 28.Anti-Defamation League | 1913, organization to defend Jews against physical, verbal attatcks and false statements |
| 29. mutualistas | Mexican American groups that made loans and provided legal assistance |
| 30.Theodore Roosevelt | 1901 became president, believed in progressivism |
| 31.Square Deal | created by Roosevelt to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor |
| 32.Hepburn Act | 1906 law by Roosevelt that gave the government the authority to set RR rates and max prices for ferries, bridge tolls, and oil pipelines |
| 33.Meat Inspection Act | 1906 also by Roosevelt that allowed the fed. gov. the right to inspect meat sold across state lines and required fed. inspection of meat processing plants |
| 34.Pure Food and Drug Act | places same control on food..banned interstate shipment of impure foods and the mis-labeling of food and drugs |
| 35.John Muir | naturalist who helped create the Yosemite National Park in 1890 |
| 36.Gifford Pinchot | helped create the Division of Forestry, and said that the forests should be used for public use |
| 37.National Reclamation Act | 1902 gave the fed. gov. the power to decide where and how the water would be distributed |
| 38.New Nationalism | a program to restore the gov's trustbusting power |
| 39.Progessive Party | political party that was a result of the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Republican party in 1912 |
| 40.Woodrow Wilson | Democratic candidate who won Presidency |
| 41.New Freedom | put strict government controls on corporations much like New Nationalism |
| 42.16th Amendment | 1913 gave Congress the authority to charge an income tax |
| 43.Federal Reserve Act | 1913 placed national banks under control of a Federal Reserve Board, which set up regional banks to hold the reserve funds from commercial banks |
| 44.Federal Trade Commission | government agency established in 1914 to identify monopolistic business practices, false advertising, and dishonest labeling |
| 45.Clayton Antitrust Act | 1914 law that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act |
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