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asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition. | Progressivism |
Investigative journalists view the muckrakers as early influences and a continuation of watchdog journalism. | Muckrakers |
a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. | initiative |
in which an entire electorate is asked to vote on a particular proposal. | referendum |
a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term has ended. | recall |
An election in which voters choose candidates to run on a party's ticket in a subsequent election for public office. | direct primary |
March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
gives Congress the power to collect taxes on income without apportioning it among the states | 16th Amendment |
direct election of senators by the people | 17th Amendment |
prohibition of alcohol | 18th Amendment |
female suffrage/right to vote | 19th Amendment |
President of the United States;hero of the Spanish-American War;Panama Canal was built during his administration; | Teddy Roosevelt |
The Coal strike of 1902, eastern Pennsylvania. Miners were on strike asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. | Anthracite Coal Miners Strike |
a law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade | Pure Food and Drug Act |
preservation, protection, or restoration of the natural environment, natural ecosystems, vegetation, and wildlife. | Conservation |
a former political party in the United States; founded by Theodore Roosevelt during the presidential campaign of 1912; | Bull Moose Party |
an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. | Federal Reserve Act |
provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; Attempts to prohibit certain actions that lead to anti-competitiveness | Clayton Antitrust Act |
state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965. | Jim Crow Laws |