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| referendum | This is a vote on an initiative. |
| progressive movement | This included a series of reform efforts that aimed to correct injustices in American life. |
| initiative | This is a bill initiated, or launched, by citizens. |
| Seventeenth Amendment | This allowed for the popular, or direct, election of U.S. senators |
| scientific management | This was one of the inspirations for the creation of assembly lines at the Ford Motor Company. |
| Robert M. La Follette | This reform governor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin made the railroad industry a major target. |
| recall | This enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face an election before the end of their term if enough voters requested it. |
| muckraker | This is a term used to describe a journalist who exposed government abuses and big business corruption to the readers of mass circulation of magazines and newspapers. |
| prohibition | Members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union fought for this cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and asking saloon-keepers to stop selling alcohol. |
| Florence Kelley | This progressive championed the rights of women and children by moving into a settlement house, working as the Chief Inspector of Factories for Illinois, and helping to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act. |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | This legislation was used by Roosevelt to file 44 antitrust suits. |
| 1902 coal miners’ strike | This was settled when Roosevelt got involved in the negotiations. |
| NAACP | This was started by prominent African-American and white reformers. |
| Square Deal | This is what Roosevelt promised that the common people would receive. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | At 42 years old, he was the youngest president ever elected. |
| "The Jungle" | Roosevelt responded to this book by appointing a commission to investigate the meatpacking industry. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | This legislation halted the sale of contaminated foods or drugs and called for truth in labeling. |
| conservation | This was the principle that guided Roosevelt’s efforts to organize water projects to transform dry wilderness areas into agricultural areas. |
| Upton Sinclair | This muckraking journalist shocked readers with his nauseating account of the meatpacking industry’s conditions. |
| Meat Inspection Act | This legislation put forth strict cleanliness requirements for meat-packers and created the program of federal meat inspection still used today. |
| Nineteenth Amendment | This granted women the right to vote. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | This person was the president of NAWSA. |
| Federal Reserve Act | This established the Federal Reserve System. |
| Woodrow Wilson | This person was a former governor of New Jersey who became president in 1912. |
| income tax | This was intended to provide revenue lost by the lowering of tariffs. |
| Federal Reserve System | This is a decentralized private banking system under government control. |
| Underwood Tariff | This substantially reduced import taxes for the first time since the Civil War. |
| Federal Trade Commission | This agency was given the power to investigate unfair business practices and to issue orders to “cease and desist.” |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | This specified that labor unions and farm organizations not only had a right to exist, but would also no longer be subject to antitrust laws. |
| civil rights | Woodrow Wilson appeared to support this issue during his campaign, but during his presidency, he did more to support those who opposed it. |
| woman’s suffrage | This movement was given new strength by a growing number of college-educated women. |
