the american vision ch 18
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Interstate Commerce Commision | regulated railroad industry, reduced competition, created fair rates |
| scientific management | a company could become more efficient by managing time, breaking tasks into small parts, and using |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | advocated moderation or elimination of alcohol |
| commission plan | city's gov is divided into several departments under control of expert comissioner |
| referendum | allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to voters for approval |
| muckraker | journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption |
| initiative | allowed a group of citizens to indroduce legislation and required legislature to vote on it |
| richard ballinger | Taft's secretary of interior who sold land for private development |
| ida tarbell | published articles critical of standard oil company |
| childrens bureau | investigated and publicized problems with child labor |
| sixteenth amendmant | federal gov could tax people individually |
| wisconsin | laboratory of democracy |
| woodrow wilson | pursued progressive agenda; beat roosevelt |
| seventeenth amendmant | direct election of senators |
| nineteenth amendmant | women's voting rights |
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