| A | B |
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| progressivism | movement to improve American society through social reforms |
| recall | process of removing a public official from office by citizens' vote |
| referendum | legal procedure by which citizens can revoke a law passed by the legislature |
| initiative | procedure empowering citizens to propose a law to the legislature |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| accommodation | going along with the desires/demands of others |
| trust buster | person who wants to dissolve business organizations that eliminate competition |
| laissez-faire economics | belief that government should "leave alone" and not regulate businesses |
| bread-and-butter issues | worker concerns about providing the basic necessities of life |
| monoply | a business that controls a product or service that results in no competition |
| muckraker | derogatory term coined by Theodore Roosevelt for writers who exposed corruption in the early 1900s |
| direct primary | election by citizens to choose candidates of their party to run for office |
| lobbyist | representative from a group who tries to influence lawmakers |
| socialism | economic system in which government owns all means of production |
| ratification | approval |
| free enterprise | economic system in which there are few or no government controls over businesses |
| municipal socialism | system in which people, through their local government, own all public utilities |
| arbitration | hearing and settlement of a dispute between two parties by a neutral third party |
| conservation | to use a natural resource wisely to prevent waste |
| tariff | tax on imports |
| melting pot | concept that immigrants of different racial and cultural backgrounds become adapted to American culture |
| imperialism | practice of establishing and controlling colonies |
| propaganda | information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular point of view |
