Chapter 11 The Progressive Reform Era
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 A political debate produced many plans for bring about progress. | Define the progressive era. |
| A muckrake is a rake or pitchfork uesd to clean manure and hay out of stables, Theodore Roosevelt used this term on Journalist who informed the public about wrongdoing in business | Define the term muckrackers. |
| Injunctions-court orders that prohibit a certain activity. | Define the term injunctions. |
| Social welfare programs help ensure a minimum of standard living. | What are Social welfare programs. |
| relating to a city,as in municipal government. | Define municipal |
| Home rule is a system that gives cities a limited degree on self rule. | What is home rule? |
| An election in which citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections. | Define Direct Primary. |
| A process, in which citizens can put a proposed new law directly in the ballot. | What is initiative? |
| A process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by the legislature. | Define referendum. |
| Procedure permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election. | what is a recall? |
| a firm that buys up stocks and bonds of smaller companies | what is a holding company? |
| people who favor the protection of natural resources. | what are conservationists |
| Roosevelt's plan to Changing America | What is New Nationalism. |
| The new party of progressive and the moose was their symbol to challenge the democrats and republicans | What was the Bull Moose Party? |
| power to order firms and business tactics | What was the (FTC) |
| Divided the country into 12 districts for federal reserve banks | What is the Federal Reserve System? |
| they played a role in major reformation | what were women groups |
| safer conditions and more legal rights | What were some reforms in the workplace |
| They opened nation parks and had environment programs set up. | What were they doing to protect the enviroment. |
| Nonviolent refusal to obey a law in an effort to change that law | What was civil disobedience |
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