A | B |
17th Amendment | State senators are elected by the voters instead of state legislatures |
19th Amendment | Women's’ right to vote |
Segregation | Enforced separation of racial groups in schooling, housing, and other public areas. |
Federal Trade Commission | Set up to control unfair business practices under Wilson. It was not very powerful |
Booker T. Washington | Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education. He accepted social separation of races. |
W.E.B. DuBois | Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African-Americans |
The Jungle | Book by Upton Sinclair revealing the practices in the meatpacking industry |
16th Amendment | Gave the government the right to tax income |
18th Amendment | Outlawed the sale and consumption of alcohol |
"Jim Crow" Laws | Regulations passed in the South to institutionalize a system of legal segregation to discriminate against African-Americans. |
Pure Food and Drug Act | Passed under Roosevelt to regulate the food and medicine industries. Companies had to list ingredients on packages |
Reserve Act | Passed under Wilson to regulate the banking industry. Created the Federal Reserve system. |
Tammany Hall | The name of meeting place of New York’s political machine under "Boss" William M. Tweed |
Upton Sinclair | Wrote The Jungle, a book about the practices in the meatpacking industry |
Boss William Tweed | He ran the political machine in New york City and was a very corrupt politician |