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Chapter 8 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Progressivism | Movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms. |
| Muckraker | Writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in policies or business. |
| Social Gospel | Reform movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles. |
| Settlement House | Community center organized at the turn of the twentieth century to provide social services to the urban poor. |
| Direct Primary | Election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections. |
| Initiative | Process in which citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot. |
| Referendum | Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature. |
| Recall. | Process by which voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end. |
| NCL | Group organized in the 1899 to investigate the conditions under which goods were made and sold and to promote safe4 working conditions and a minimum wage. |
| Temperance Movement | Movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote. |
| NAWSA | Group founded in 1890 that worked on both the state and national levels to earn women the right to vote. |
| Nineteenth Amendment | Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote. |
| Americanization | Belief that assimilating immigrants into American Society would make them more loyal citizens. |
| Niagara Movement | Group of African Americans thinkers founded in 1905 that pushed for immediate racial reforms, particularly in education and voting practices. |
| NAACP | Interracial organization found in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans. |
| Urban League | Network of churches and clubs that set up employment agencies and relief efforts to help African Americans get settled and find work in the cities. |
| Anti-Defamation League | Organization formed in 1913 to defend Jews against physical and verbal attacks and false statements. |
| Mutualistas | Organized groups of Mexican-Americans that make loans and provide legal assistance to others members of their community. |
| Square Deal | President Theodore Roosevelt's program of reforms to keep wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor. |
| Hepburn Act | 1906 law that gave the government the authority to set up railroad rates and maximum prices for ferries, bridge tolls, and oil pipelines. |
| Meat Inspection Act | 1906 law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required federal inspections of meat processing plants. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs. |
| National Reclamation Act | 1902 law that gave the federal government the power to decide where and how water would be distributed through the building and management of dams and irrigation projects. |
| New Nationalism | President Theodore Roosevelt's plan to restore the government's trustbusting power. |
| Progressive Party | Political party that emerged from the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Republican Party 1912. |
| New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson's program to place governments controls on corporations in order to benefit small business. |
| Sixteenth Amendment | 1913 constitutional amendment that gave Congress the authority to levy an income tax. |
| Federal Reserve Act | 1913 law that placed national banks under the control of a Federal Reserve Board, which runs regional banks that hold the reserve funds from commercial banks, set interest rates, and supervises commercial banks. |
| Federal Trade Commission | Government agency established in 1914 to identify monopolistic business practices, false advertising, and dishonest labeling. |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | 1914 law that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act. |