| A | B |
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| civil service | system including most government jobs minus political, judicial, & military jobs |
| primary | an election where voters choose their party's candidate |
| recall | a process which people may vote to remove an elected official from office |
| initiative | a process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature |
| referendum | a way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law |
| graduated income tax | a taxation that taxes people at different rates dependent on income |
| muckraker | a crusading journalist |
| Theodore Roosevelt | president, trustbuster, rough rider, conservationist |
| trustbuster | a person working to destroy monopolies and trusts |
| conservation | protection of natural resources |
| national park | a natural area protected and managed by the federal government |
| William Howard Taft | president and Roosevelt's secretary of war |
| Woodrow Wilson | president, progressive, scholar |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | a suffragist after Stanton and Anthony |
| suffragist | people who worked for women's right to vote |
| Alice Paul | a suffragist who started the National Woman's Party (NWP) and catapulted the 19th ammendment |
| Frances Willard | president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) |
| prohibition | a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol |
| Booker T. Washington | a conservative, educated African American |
| W.E.B. DuBois | a liberal, educated African American who encouraged blacks to fight discrimination and formed the NAACP |
| lynching | murder by a mob |
| parochial school | schools sponsored by a church |
| anti-Semitism | prejudice against Jews |
