| A | B |
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| Temperance Movement | The movement in the United States to ban alcohol |
| Suffrage | The right of voting in political elections |
| Spoils System | The practice of rewarding political supporters with jobs |
| Civil service reforms | Changed the way that government jobs were filled, instituted the "Merit system" |
| Pendleton Act (1883) | Provided for: Competitive exams, Ended forced political contributions by government employees |
| Dorothea Dix | Worked for the rights of the mentally ill |
| Progressives | American from all walks of life, set on correcting the problems of the industrial era US |
| Muckrakers | Journalists, writers, photographers and others who worked to expose corruption and injustice |
| Frank Norris | Wrote "The Octopus" (1901) |
| Ida Tarbell | Wrote "The History of Standard Oil" (1903) |
| Jacob Riis | Photographer, wrote "How the Other Half Lives" (1890) |
| Upton Sinclair | Wrote "The Jungle" (1906) |
| Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) | Required accurate labels on products consumed |
| Meat Inspection Act (1906) | Reformed slaughterhouses, a result of "The Jungle" |
| Settlement houses | Helped recent immigrants and others to find work, education and housing |
| Hull House (Chicago) | Settlement house founded by Jane Addams |
| Carrie Nation | Fiery, axe-wielding temperance advocate |
| Women’s Christian Temperance Union | Organization founded to ban alcohol in the US |
| 18th Amendment (1920) | Banned the sale and importation of alcohol in the US |
| 19th Amendment (1920) | Granted women the right to vote in the US |
| Margaret Sanger | Worked to provide women access to birth control |
| Booker T. Washington | Founded the Tuskegee Institute, advocated vocational training for African-Americans |
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| Helped found the NAACP, advocated formal education for African-American & advocated protest |
| Secret Ballot | Prevented political "Bosses" from knowing how people voted |
| Initiative | Allowed people to petition Legislatures for consideration of laws |
| Referendum | Allowed voters to decide on bills and amendments |
| Recall | Allowed petition to be used to force politicians from office |
| Direct Primary | Allowed voters to select party candidates for the ballot |
| 17th Amendment | Provided for the direct election of US Senators |
| Theodore Roosevelt | "The Trust Buster" |
| Trust | A business that controls most of a particular market (a monopoly) |
| Hepburn Act (1906) | Strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission, allowed the ICC to regulate railroad rates |
| Anthracite Coal Strike | Roosevelt sided with labor and threatened to send in the US army |
| John Muir | Conservationist who influenced progressive thinking about American natural resources |
| Statndard Oil Co. of NJ v. The US | Dissolved a monopoly, applied the "rule of reason" to future anti-trust cases |
| "The Bull-Moose Party" | Progressive party of Theodore Roosevelt that challenged W.H. Taft |
