chapter8_vocablist
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1.Progressivism | movement in response to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms
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2.Muckraker | writer who exposes misconduct in business or politics
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3.Social Gospel | reform movement in the late nineteenth century that sought to improve society by applying Christian principles
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4.Settlement House | community center organized at the turn of 20th century to provide social services to urban poor
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5.Direct Primary | election where citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections
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6.Initiative | process where citizens put a proposed new law directly on the ballot
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7.Referendum | process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature
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8.Recall | process where voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end
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9.NCL | organized group in 1899 to investigate conditions where goods were made and sold and to promote safe working conditions and a minimum wage
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10.Temperance Movement | movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems that it created
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11.Suffrage | the right to vote
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12.NAWSA | group founded in 1890 that worked on state and national levels to earn women the right to vote
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13.Nineteenth Amendment | amendment that gave women the right to vote
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14.Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrants into American Society would make them more loyal citizens
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15.Niagara Movement | group of African American thinkers that pushed for immediate racial reforms ,mostly in education and voting practices founded in 1905
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16.NAACP | interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rihts for African Americans
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17.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
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18.Anti-Defamation League | organization formed in 1913 to defend Jews against physical and verbal attacks and false statements
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19.Mutualists | organized groups of Mexican Americans that make loans and provide legal assistance to other members of their community
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20.Square Deal | President Roosevelt's program of reforms to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of the poor and small business owners
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21.Hepburn Act | 1906 law that gave government the authority to set railroad rates and maximum prices for ferries, bridge tolls, and oil pipelines
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22.Meat Inspection Act | 1906 law that allowed federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants
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23.Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs
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24.National Reclamation Act | 1902 law that gave power to federal government to decide where and how water would be distributed through the building and managing of dams and irrigation projects
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25.New Nationalism | President Roosevelt's plan to restore the governments trustbusting power
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26.Progressive Party | political party that emerged from the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Republican Party in 1912
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27.New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson's program to place government controls on corporations to benefit small businesses
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28.Sixteenth Amendment | 1913 amendment that gave Congress the authority to levy an income tax
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29.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, sets interest rates, and supervises commercial banks
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30.Federal Trade Commission | government agency established in 1914 to identify monopolistic business practices, false advertising , and dishonest labeling
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31.Clayton Antitrust Act | 1914 law that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act
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