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chp 8 gs us vocab

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1. Progressivism   was a belief that honesty, new ideas, and hard working government would bring social justice  
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2. muckraker   writes who were fascinated with the ugly side of things, name came from Theodore Roosevelt.  
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3. Lincoln Steffens   a leading muckraker, who published the shame of the cities, which were a collection of articles on corrupt politics.  
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4. Jacob Riis   a photographer for the New York Evening Sun. exposed the world to nasty tenements causing people to want reform.  
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5. Social Gospel   Walter Rauschenbusch said if society followed the bibles teachings about charity and justice it would become "the kingdom of God"  
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6. settlement house   community center that provided special services to the poor people in the cities.  
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7. Jane Addams   was a leader in the settlement house movement. creator of the Hull House.  
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8. direct primary   established by Robert M. La Follette, it was an election where citizens could vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.  
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9. initiative   gave people power to put a proposed law on the ballot for the next election by collecting signatures on a petition.  
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10. referendum   let citizens approve or reject laws that the legislature passed.  
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11. recall   allowed voters to remove public servants before the term was over from office.  
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12. Florence Kelley   a woman who believed that unfair prices on goods for women to buy hurt them.  
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13. National Consumers League (NCL)   was founded by Florence Kelley. produced special labels that women bought instead of unsafe and unfair labels.  
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14. temperance movement   a group that led the practice of never drinking alcohol, led by the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)  
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15. Margaret Sanger   a women who believed that if women had less children family life and women's health would improve  
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16. Ida B. Wells   a woman who formed the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) also protested against lynching.  
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17. suffrage   right for women to vote.  
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18. Carrie Chapman Catt.   a lady who re-energized national suffrage. encouraged women to join the National American Woman Suffrage Association  
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19. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)   was lead by Carrie Chapman Catt. urged woman to join this group in hope of changing women's rights.  
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20. Alice Paul   a social activist, raised in a Quaker home, organized many women to recruit others across the nation for suffrage movement.  
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21. Nineteenth Amendment   gave the right to vote for everyone and not being denied on a person's sex  
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22. Americanization   taught immigrants English and wanted to change how they lived.  
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23. Booker T. Washington   a man who told blacks to not rush the racial progress  
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24. W.E.B. Du Bois   urged African Americans to demand their rights guaranteed by the Constitution.  
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25. Niagara Movement   a group that denounced the idea of gradual progress  
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26. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)   was a group aimed at helping African Americans to be free from unjustice.  
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27. Urban League   a group focused on poorer workers.  
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28. Anti-Defamation League   a group whose goal is to defend Jews against physical and verbal abuse.  
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29. mutualistas   Mexican Americans who provided loans and legal assistance.  
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30. Theodore Roosevelt   was president, had the reputation of being smart, energetic, and opinionated  
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31. Square Deal   a program that had the goals to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of the struggling poor  
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32. Hepburn Act   gave the ICC enforcement powers for example the government had authority to set and limit shipping costs.  
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33. Meat Inspection Act   federal agents had to inspect meat sold across state lines and also required them to inspect the meat-processing plants  
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34. Pure food and Drug Act   placed mutual controls of foods and medicine. FDA was created.  
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35. John Muir   a man whose efforts led Congress to create Yosemite National Park  
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36. Gifford Pinchot   a man who led the Division of Forestry in the Department of Agriculture in the United States.  
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37. National Reclamation Act   gave federal government power to decide how water would be distributed  
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38. New Nationalism   was a plan to restore the government s "trustbusting power".  
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39. Progressive Party   Progressives people separated from the republican party and created their own group. Jane Addams nominated Roosevelt as the candidate in 1912  
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40. Woodrow Wilson   Democrat candidate who caught the attention of William Jennings Bryan. had a doctoral thesis called congressional government.  
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41. New Freedom   an idea formed by Wilson, it would place strict government controls on corporations  
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42. Sixteenth Amendment   gave congress the power to create a graduated income tax.  
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43. Federal Reserve Act (1913)   placed national banks under control of the Federal Reserve Board, letting regional banks hold the reserve funds from commercial banks.  
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44. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)   a group that monitored business practices to make sure they don't lead to a monopoly.  
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45. Clayton Antitrust Act   a law that gave strength to earlier antitrust laws by giving out the activities in which businesses couldn't engage.  
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