| A | B |
| progressive movement | social reform movement in the early 20th century |
| prohibition | making the sale or use of alcohol illegal |
| muckraker | writer who exposes wrong-doing |
| initiative | a way for people to propose laws directly |
| referendum | a way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote |
| recall | a vote on whether to remove a public official from office |
| suffrage | right to vote; a major goal fo women reformers |
| Upton Sinclair | novelist who exposed social problems |
| The Jungle | novel by Upton Sinclair describing meat-packing industry |
| Meat Inspection Act | Law reforming meat-packiing conditions, 1906 |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Law that stopped the sale of unclean food and drugs, 1906 |
| Square Deal | TR's program of progressive reforms |
| Meat Inspection Act | law reforming meatpcking conditions, 1906 |
| conservation | The planned management of natural resources |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Susan B Anthony | leader of the women suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement’s goals and beliefs and to lead its actions. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | president of National Association; who led the campaign for woman suffrage during Wilson's admin. |
| Australian Ballot | the method of voting in which voters marked secret ballots in walled or curtained booths |
| direct primary | voters choose candidates for public office through a special popular election |
| Seventeenth Amendment | constitutional amendment providing for senators to be elected directly |
| Sixteenth Amendment | amendment that provided for graduated income tax |
| eighteenth Amendment | constitutional amendment that prohibited the sale of alcohol |
| Nineteenth Amendment | amendment that provided for women's suffrage |
| laissez faire | term for lack of government intervention in business |
| temperance | prohibition |
| NAWSA | group that fought for Women's suffrage |
| WCTU | fought to make alcohol illegal |
| YMCA | a place for young men to stay out of trouble |
| Ida Tarbell | wrote the History of Standard oil exposing teh monopolistic practices of JD Rockefeller |
| Lincoln Steffens | wrote Shame ofthe Cities which showed the deplorable conditions of the dumbbell tenements |
| Jacob Riis | wrote How the Other Half LIves about the NYC tenements |