| A | B |
|---|
| Progressive Era | movement in America to improve life through social justice, economic and spread of democracy |
| Lafollette | began "lab of Democracy" and voting reform |
| initiative | voting reform where citizens are able to propose laws not only elected officials |
| recall | voting reform to remove elected official |
| referendum | voting reform proposed legislation (laws) are submitted to citizens for 1st approval |
| Amendment 16th | repealed income tax |
| Amendment 17 | amendment requiring direct election of senators |
| Amendment 18 | amendment prohibiting (stopping) the sale of alcohol |
| Amendment 19 | amendment giving women the right to vote |
| muckrakers | writers like Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)who criticized bad conditions or corrupt politicians and laws |
| economic change of Progressive era | from laissez-faire to govt intervention in business |
| Square Deal | Roosevelt's belief that government and business should be honest and fair to common person |
| trust-busting | Roosevelt policy of breaking up monopoly of businesses |
| Northern Securities Company | railroad company that showed the govt could regulate monopolies and break them up |
| Newlands Act | Roosevelt policy for natural resources; conserving irrigation (water) projects |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Roosevelt' law that was an effect of the Jungle; consumers were protected from poisoned food |
| Panama Canal | Roosevelt's plan to aid this S. American country in exchange for the rights to a waterway from Atlantic to Pacific |
| Roosevelt Corollary | US is "policeman" of the S. American countries. "big Stick" |
| Payne- Aldrich Act | Taft :voted down tariffs to protect American industry from foreign domination |
| Civil Service | government jobs begun by taft |
| Wilson's domestic program | President who began "New Freedom"- preserve and strengthen democratic capitalistic through more progressive reforms in banking, business regulation, etc. |
| Federal Reserve Act | Wilson's law to create effective banking regulations |
| Clayton Act | Wilson law where unions can not be declared criminal |
| American Neutrality | Wilson at beginning of war called for this |
| Sinking of Lusitania | German Submarine attack on British ship; 128 Americans dead; Wilson warns Germany to stop |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's idealistic plan for world peace; rules countries should follow to achieve peace with others |
| Treaty of Versailles | End of War agreement; Germany pays millions to Allies; gives France back land |
| "Red Scare" | fear tha communists were entering the government and in this country to cause revolution; Paler Raids deported immigrants |
| Emergency Quota Act | law passed under Wilson to limit immigration because of nativists |
| Nativists | Klu Klux Klan |
| Scopes Trial | Clarence Darraw defends teacher who believed and taught evolutrion in science class |
| Harlem Renaissance | Blooming of black literature, music in borough of New York |
