| A | B |
|---|
| Civil Service | All government jobs except for elected positions or those in the armed forces. |
| Monopoly | A company that completely controls the market of a certain industry. |
| Trust | A group of corporations run by a single board of directors. |
| Tariff | A tax on foreign goods brought into the country. |
| Muckraker | A person who reported on corrupt politicians and other problems of the cities. |
| Conservation | The protection of natural resources. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote. |
| 19th Amendment | Granted women's suffrage or right to vote. |
| federal reserve system | set up nation's banking system |
| Ida Tarbell | Muckraker who wrote about corrupt oil companies |
| Lincoln Steffens | Muckraker who wrote about corrupt city governments |
| Upton Sinclair | Muckraker who wrote about poor conditions of meatpacking plants |
| referendum | allows voters to vote on an initiative |
| recall | allos voters to remove an elected official from office |
| initiative | allows voters to put an issue on the ballot |
| Federal Trade Commission | Regulates business practices |
| Taft | President after Roosevelt--Roosevelt supported him (at first!) |
| Interstate Commerce Act | Regulated railroads |
| Alice Paul | Suffragist who went to extremes for voting rights |
| conservation | the protection of natural resources |
| Woodrow Wilson | won the 1912 presidential election |
| urban | relating to cities |
| corruption | shady or unethical |
| Bull Moose | Third party--Roosevelt ran under this in 1912 |
| Square Deal | Roosevelt's plan for reform |
| reform | change |
| progressives | people who wanted change |
| prohibition | banning of alcohol |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | Called for prohibition |
| patronage/spoils system | appointing friends to political position as reward |
| 17th Amendment | Allowed for direct election of senators |
| 16th amendment | called for income tax |
| Meat Inspection Act of 1906 | Required cleanliness in meat packing industry |
| Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906 | Called for safety and truth in labeling of food/medicine |
| political machines | controlled (often by corruption) city governments |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Court case that said segregation was legal (as long as it was "equal")--which wasn't really the case |
| segregation | separating people by race |
| poll tax | allowed people to charge money for voting |
| literacy test | forced people to take a test in reading and writing in order to vote |
| grandfather clause | said that if your grandfather was eligible to vote prior to the Civil War, then you could vote without poll tax or literacy test(meant African Americans in south couldn't vote) |
| Jim Crow Laws | State laws promoting segregation |
| lynching | killing based on race--usually hanging or burning--in order to "teach a lesson" |
| Booker T. Washington | Started Tuskegee Institute, worked for blacks to "earn" equality |
| W.E.B. DuBois | fought for blacks to have immediate equality |
| Ida B. Wells | editor of Africkan American newspaper--released names of whites who were involved in lynching. |
