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Civil Service

All government related jobs

Referendum

Allows voters to vote directly on a bill for approval or rejection

18th Amendment

Amendment that prohibited the manufacture and sale of liquor

Sherman Antitrust Act

Banned trusts or monopolies from limiting competition

Carrie Chapman Catt

Became head of the National American Women's Suffrage Association; urged listeners to ratify the 19th Amendment

Supporters of Immigration

Big Business owners (cheap labor) & immigrants

Square Deal

Created by T. Roosevelt: All workers should have equal opportunity to succeed

US Forest Service

Created to manage the nation's water and timber resources

national parks service

Created to take over the administration of the nation's parks. Created by T.R.

Good Trust

Efficient, fair, should be left alone

Direct Primary

Election in which voters cast ballots to select nominees for upcoming elections

Civil Service Exam

Exam given to all people applying for a government job; based on qualifications

16th Amendment

Gave Congress the power to levy an income tax.

Gilded Age

Gilded Age suggests that a thin but glittering layer of prosperity covered the poverty & corruption of much of society 1870-1900

19th Amendment

Guaranteed women the right to vote

Muckraker

Journalist that wanted to bring light unfair political or commercial corruption; usually by way of the press

The Jungle

Novel written by Upton Sinclair exposing the problems of the meat packing industry

pure food and drug act

Outlawed interstate transportation of impure or diluted foods and the deliberate mislabeling of foods and drugs

Temperance

People who are against alcohol

Nativists

People who wanted to limit immigration & preserve the country for native born protestants

Thomas Nast

Popular editorial cartoonist who drew many cartoons that targeted "Boss Tweed", a political boss in New York City

Alice Paul

Popular suffragist who went to England to support women in London. Later she returned to America to support women's right to vote.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Professor, author, and public speaker. 1895 he became the 1st AA to earn a Ph. D from Harvard. He thought segregation was illegal Fight discrimination actively

Conservation

Protection of natural resources, creating parks and land areas designed for public use

17th Amendment

Provided for the direct election of senators

Progressives

Reformers who wanted to improve American life

T. Roosevelt's Policy Towards Trusts

Regulate them; not break them up

Competition

Rivalry between business for customers or markets

Booker T. Washington

Said that AA should go to school and train themselves for jobs Believed that blacks should be segregated until they could enter the job force Said that AA should go to school and train themselves for jobs Believed that blacks should be segregated until they could enter the job force

Susan B. Anthony

She demanded that women have same right to vote as blacks; 1872 she a group of women to the polls in Rochester, NY where she insisted on voting Civil Disobedience

Carry Nation

Smashing up bars w/ a hatchet to protest the sale of alcohol

Suffragist

Someone who campaigned for women's rights. Right to vote

trustbuster

Someone who wants to destroy all trusts

Public Interest

The good of the people

Bad Trust

Took advantage of workers & cheated consumers

Initiative

Voters can put a bill directly before the legislature

Recall

Voters can remove public officials from office before the next election

Major Goals of Women's Reform

Working Conditions, ban on alcohol, voting rights, and education.

Monopoly

company that controls all or nearly all the business in a particular industry

Laissez-Faire

government should stay out of involvement in business and the economy

Trade Union

group of people working in the same trade to improve work conditions

patronage/spoils system

rewarding supporters w/ government jobs

Industrialization

to introduce machine production & factories into an area on a large scale


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