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| Pregunta | Respuesta |
| Progressivism | reform movement that believed the solution to social problems lay in a more active government |
| Muckrakers | journalists who investigated social conditions & political corruption |
| Jacob Riis | muckraker who wrote about poor condition facing immigrants in NYC |
| Commission Plan | A system of city government in which a board of commissioners with expertise in city services hires specialists to run city departments |
| Robert La Follete | Republican governor of Wisconsin who attacked the way political parties ran their conventions & introduced direct primary |
| Direct Primary | Party election in which all party members vote for someone to run in the general election |
| Initiative | Reform that allowed citizens to introduce a legislation and have the legislature vote on it |
| Referndum | reform that allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to the voters for approval |
| Recall | reform that allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before their term ended |
| Suffrage | right to vote |
| Alice Paul | suffragist who formed the National Woman's Party |
| Temperance | moderation or elimination of alcohol |
| Prohibition | laws banning the manufacture, sale, or consumption of alcohol |
| socialism | idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole |
| Progressive Party | "Bull Moose Party." Roosevelt |
| New Nationalism | suggested reform programs of Roosevelt in the 1912 election |
| New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson's suggested reform programs |
| Income Tax | direct tax on the earnings of individuals and corporations |
| Federal Reserve Act | law that set up a central banking system in 1913 |
| Federal Trade Commission | agency created by Congress to monitor American business |
| Unfair Trade Practices | business practices that unfairly limited competition |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | association formed in 1909 to bring an end to racial discremintation |
| Joseph G. Cannon | Speaker of the House under Pres. Taft |
| Payne-Aldrich Tariff | a law passed during the Taft administration that didn't effectively lower tariffs |
| Richard Ballinger | Taft's secretary of he interior who was a conservative corporate lawyer |
| syndicate | a business group |
| insubordination | disobedience |
| Square Deal | reform programs of Pres. Roosevelt |
| Norther Securities | a giant holding company broken up by Roosevelt. |
| Union Mine Workers | a union for mine workers |
| abitration | a settlement imposed by an outside party |
| Hepburn Act | a law intended to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission |
| Upton Sinclair | author of "The Jungle" which described horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry |
| Where was the commission plan first used? | Galveston, Texas in 1901 |
| What did Alice Paul have women do to try and persuade the president to support women's suffrage? | A march in Washington, DC Hunger Strike |
| "trustbuster" | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Why did Roosevelt have a problem with Northern Securities? | He believed that the company went against the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| What did the United Mine workers want? Where were they located? Why did Roosevelt get involved? What was the outcome? | Workers wanted shorter hours & more pay. Eastern, PA If the mines shut down, the company would shut down Roosevelt threatened for the military to come in and workers agreed to Roosevelt's terms |
| What was "The Jungle" about? What laws were passed because of this? | "The Jungle" was about the poor conditions in Chicago's slaughter house. Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Meat Inspection Act | federal inspection of meat sold & it set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Prohibited manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs |
| How did the progressives feel about Cannon? | They wanted to unseat him because he had too much power |
| Gifford Pinchot | Accused Ballinger of turning public lands in Alaska over to private business groups. Charges were false and Taft fires him. Head of U.S. Forest Service |
| What act was the Income Tax placed under? | Underwood Tariff |
| Adamson Act | Established 8 hour work day for railroad workers. |
| Candidates in the 1912 election and what party they belonged to | Theodore Roosevelt- Progressive "Bull Moose" party Woodrow Wilson- Democratic William Taft- Republican |
| 17th Amendment | required direct election of senators |
| 14 & 15th Amendments | protect voting rights of African American's |
| 19th Amendment | women suffrage |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition |
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