SS Test 2
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
