| A | B |
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| Bull Moose Party | nickname given to the Progressive Party begun by Teddy Roosevelt |
| Civil Service Reform Act | required that a test be given to earn a government job |
| monopoly | control of the production and sale of a product (like Standard Oil) |
| Temperance Movement | a move to ban the sale and use of alcohol |
| 16th Amendment | it gave Congress the power to tax people based on the money they earned (income tax) |
| 18th Amendment | it banned the sale and use of alcohol |
| 19th Amendment | it gave women the right to vote |
| spoils system | giving government jobs to political supporters regardless of capability to do the job |
| civil service | the body of workers hired for government jobs (not military or elected) |
| conservationist | a person who wanted to protect the environment |
| gender discrimination | treating people differently based on their gender |
| income tax | a tax on a person’s earnings |
| secret ballot | voting in private |
| Woodrow Wilson | a democrat best known for reforming the nation’s banking and currency; he started the Federal Reserve System |
| Teddy Roosevelt | trust-buster, a conservationist and head of the Progressive Party |
| Boss Tweed | a political boss that headed up the political machine in New York, was sent to jail for his crimes |
| James Garfield | president who was assassinated by a person who thought he had been promised a job |
| Coxey | a man who led an army of farmers to D.C. to protest the unemployment problem farmers were having |
| “Grantism” | political corruption |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; organization begun by W.E.B.DuBois |
| muckrakers | who dug out the dirty secrets of American life to bring change for good |
| suffragists | people who campaigned for women’s right to vote |
| progressives | a political group that tackled many problems (tried to end government corruption and monopolies, child-labor, alcoholism, and also tried to improve factory working conditions and gain women suffrage) |
