| A | B |
|---|
| Civil Service | federal jobs |
| Civil Service Commisssion | hires people for federal jobs |
| patronage | giving jobs to supporters |
| Interstate Commerce Commission | regulates railroads & large businesses |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | prohibits businesses from limiting competition |
| Boss Rule | powerful politicians ruled the cities |
| William Tweed | Corrupt NY city boss |
| Muckrackers | journalists who exposed "dirt" of city governments |
| Ida Tarbell | Muckracker who targeted big business |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote The Jungle |
| The Jungle | book exposing horrors of meatpacking industry |
| Progressives | name reformers called themselves |
| public interest | good of the people |
| Robert LaFollette | Govenor of Wisconsin - Wisconsin Idea |
| Wisconsin Idea | Progressive reforms - ex. lowering railroad rates |
| Primary | election to choose the candidates |
| Initiative | gives public right to introduce bills |
| referendum | gives voters the power to make a bill a law |
| sixteenth admendment | gives Congress the power to impose an income tax |
| seventeenth admendment | allows for the direct election of senators |
| TR | Theodore Roosevelt |
| trustbuster | someone who wants to destroy all trusts |
| Square Deal | many different groups should have an equal opportunity to succeed |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | must list ingredients on labels |
| Conservation | protecting natural resources |
| Bull Moose Party | Progressive Party of TR |
| Woodrow Wilson's program | New Freedom |
| Federal Reserve Act | regulates banking |
| Federal Trade Commission | investigates unfair business practices |
| Seneca Falls convention | calls for women's rights |
| suffragists | campaigners for women's rights |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | leader in woman's suffrage movement |
| Alice Paul | went to jail for women's suffrage |
| Nineteenth Admendment | gives women the right to vote |
| Temperance Movement | crusade against alcohol |
| Carry Nation | leader in the Temperance Movement |
| Eighteenth Admendment | made it illegal to sell alcohol in the US |
| Ida B. Wells | African American journalist who urged boycotts of white institutions |
| Brooker T. Washington | wrote Up From Slavery |
| NAACP | National Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People |
| WEB DuBois | started NAACP |
| Gentlemena's Agreement | limited Japanese immigration |
| barrios | Mexican neighborhoods |
