| A | B |
|---|
| discrimination | to judge someone differently based on certain factors, including race |
| exaggerated | that which goes beyond the truth or reality |
| sensational | intended to stir curiosity or interest |
| progressive movement | social reform movement in the early 20th century |
| prohibition | making the sale or use of alcohol illegal |
| muckraker | writer who exposes wrong-doing |
| initiative | a way for people to propose laws directly |
| referendum | a way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote |
| recall | a vote on whether to remove a public official from office |
| suffrage | right to vote; a major goal fo women reformers |
| Upton Sinclair | novelist who exposed social problems |
| The Jungle | novel by Upton Sinclair describing meat-packing industry |
| Meat Inspection Act | Law reforming meat-packing conditions, 1906 |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Law that stopped the sale of unclean food and drugs, 1906 |
| Clayton Anti-trust Act | law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm-organizations |
| Susan B Anthony | leader of the women suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement’s goals and beliefs and to lead its actions. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | president of National Association; who led the campaign for woman suffrage during Wilson's admin. |
| Australian Ballot | the method of voting in which voters marked secret ballots in walled or curtained booths |
| direct primary | voters choose candidates for public office through a special popular election |
| Seventeenth Amendment | constitutional amendment providing for senators to be elected directly |
| Sixteenth Amendment | amendment that provided for graduated income tax |
| eighteenth Amendment | constitutional amendment that prohibited the sale of alcohol |
| Nineteenth Amendment | amendment that provided for women's suffrage |
| Square Deal | President Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President from 1901 to 1909; known for trust-busting "bad" trusts, conservation, and consumer reforms |
| NAACP | National Association of the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1909 to work for racial equality |
| arbitration | the settling of a dispute by an agreed-upon, impartial third party |
| William Taft | came in last in the election of 1912;very conservative;eventually went on to be a Supreme Court Justice;obese |
| Woodrow Wilson | won the election of 1912;a Democratic, reform candidate |
| New Freedom | Wilson's platform and domestic policy |
| laissez faire | term for lack of government intervention in business |
| Fourteenth Amendment | amendment which defined citizenship; used by women who were trying to get the right to vote |
| Square Deal | TR's program of progressive reforms |
| Meat Inspection Act | law reforming meatpcking conditions, 1906 |
| conservation | The planned management of natural resources |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Alfred t. Mahan | wrote the Influence of Sea Power in History |
| imperialism | practice of strong countries taking economic, political and military power over weaker countries |
| Valeriano Weyler | General sent from Spain to Cuba, nicknamed "butcher" |
| Rough Riders | Fighting unit led by T.R. in Cuba |
| USS Maine | US warship that exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898 |
| George Dewey | US naval commander who led the American attack on the Philippines |
| San Juan Hill | location of an important American land victory inCuba |
| yellow journalism | reporting in newspapers and maganzines that exaggerates the news in order to make it more interesting |
| Platt Amendment | provisions in Cuban constitution that gave US broad rights in Cuba |
| Open Door Policy | message sent by John Hay to other coutnries to protect US trading rights in China |
| Josiah Strong | Wrote "Our Country" |
| Boxer Rebellion | rebellion against Western influence in China |
| protectorate | a country that is partly controlled by another stronger country |
| Panama Canal | a channel across Central America, opened in 1914 |
| annex | add to a country as a territory or protectorate |
| Colombia | Panama once belonged to this country |
| Manchuria | resource rich region in China that was fought over by Russia and Japan |
| John Hay | US Secretary of State |
| William Seward | US Secretary of State who orchestrated the sale of Alaska |
| Alaska | also known as Seward's Folly |
| Big Stick Policy | TR's foreign policy |
| Russia | Alaska was purchased from this country |
| Dr Walter Reed | proved that yellow fever was carried by mosquitos |
| Open Door Policy | ensured equal trading rights for all countries in China |
| William McKinley | TR's running mate in the election of 1900 |
| Nicaragua | country that had been in consideration for a canal across Central America; would have made for a longer canal |
