| A | B |
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| Upton Sinclair | wrote the book "The Jungle" |
| The Jungle | Book that described the sickening conditions of the meat packing industry |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President who wanted to preserve the environment and clean up the government |
| Square Deal | President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt's programs to protect the environment and the common people against Big Business |
| Meat Inspecting Act | law that dictated strick cleanliness requirement for meat packers and created the program of federal meat inspection |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicine and called for truth labeling |
| conservation | the planned management of natural resources involving the protection of some wilderness areas and developing others for the common good (national parks) |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization that worked for equal rights among races |
| Woodrow Wilson | governor from New Jersey who won the 1912 presidential election |
| prohibition | banned the sale, use and consumption of alchohol in the U.S. |
| Federal Reserve Commission | controls the U.S. money supply and created a national banking system |
| 19th Amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| initiative | legislation can be started by the people instead of the lawmakers |
| National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) | organization founed in 1890 to gain voting rights for women |
| muckraker | name given to journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and politics in the early 1900s |
| recall | process for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people |
| Bull Moose Party | another name for the Progressive Party |
| Susan B. Anthony | leader of the women suffrage movement |
| 17th Amendment | legislation that stated U.S. senators should be elected directly by the people |
| Robert M. LaFolette | Progressive Wisconsin governor; targeted the railroad industry |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
