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| civil service | a system that includes most government jobs, except elected positions, the judiciary, and the military |
| primary | an early election in which voters, rather than party learders, choose their party's candidate |
| initiative | is a process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature |
| recall | a process by which people may vote to remove an elected official from office |
| graduated income tax | a method of taxation that taxes people at different rates depending on income |
| referendum | is a way for people to vote directly on a proposed law |
| trustbuster | a person working to prosecute and dissolve monopolies and trust |
| muckraker | a crusading journalist that searches for and exposes misconduct in public life |
| national park | a natural area protected and managed by the federal government |
| conservation | the protection, preservation, management, or restoration of wildlife and of natural resources such as forests, soil, and water |
| prohibition | ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol |
| suffragest | people who worked for women's rights to vote |
| parochial schools | schools sponsored by a church |
| lynching | to punish a person usually by killing without legal process or authority for perceived offense or as an act of bigotry |
| William Tweed | carried corruption to new extremes as the leader of the Tammany Hall political machine |
| anti-semitism | the intense dislike and prejudice against Jewish people |
| William Howard Taft | former secretary of war that easily won the presidential election of 1908 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | became president when William McKinley was assassinated and was the youngest president to take office |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | devised a detailed strategy to win suffrage state by state |
| Woodrow Wilson | brilliant scholar and cautious reformer that won the presidential election of 1912 |
| Francis Willard | President of the Woman's Christian Temperence Union who worked to ban the sale of alcohol |
| Alice Paul | suffragist that met with President Wilsonto achieve an amendment to the constitution regarding the voting rights for women |
| WEB DuBois | urged African Americans to fight discrimination rather than patiently submit to it |
| Bookier T Washington | advised African Americans to learn trades and seek to move up gradually in society as they would eventually have money and power |
