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David: America History of our Nation - Chapter 19 - Flashcards

Terms in this set (28)

civil service
system that includes most government jobs, except elected positions, the judiciary, and the military.
primary
an election in which voters, rather than party leaders, choose their party candidate.
recall
a process by which people may vote to remove an elected offical.
initiative
a process that allows voters to put a bill before state legislature.
referendum
A way for people to vote directly on an proposed new law
Muckraker
becoming a term for a crusading journalist
Theodore Roosevelt
was the youngest president to take office.
trustbuster
a person working to destroy monopolies and trusts
conservation
the protection of the natural resources
Carrie Chapman Catt
devised a detailed strategy to win suffrage, state by state.
suffragists
people who worked for women's right to vote
Alice Paul
suffragist that took more forceful steps than usual.
Frances Willard
Became the president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, or WCTU
prohibition
a ban on the sale or consumption of alcohol.
Booker T. Washington
emerged as the most prominent African American during discrimination.
W.E.B Du Bois
had a different view than Booker T. Washington
lynching
murder by a mob.
parochial schools
schools sponsored by a church
anti-Semitism
prejudice against Jews.
Gilded Age
The period after the civil war, this suggests falseness beneath the surface glitter
gilded
Means coated with a thin layer of gold paint
graduated income tax
a method of taxation that taxes people at different rates depending on income
William Howard Taft
for secretary of war that Roosevelt backed and he wont the presidential election. Supported all the Progressive causes such as favoring graduated income tax, approved safety rules for mines and an 8 hour work day
Election of 1912
Roosevelt lost the Republican nomination to Taft and then he started his own party the progressive party as a result the two split the Republican vote and Wilson won as the democratic candidate.
Woodrow Wilson
He hoped to restore free competition among corporations. Program was called the New Freedom he had congress create the FTC in 1914.
FTC
created 1914 and it had the power to investigate companies and order them to stop using unfair practices to destroy competitors
Clayton Anti Trust Act
1914, Wilson signed this and the new law banned some businesses practices that limited competition and stopped antitrust laws from being used against unions.
Federal Reserve Act
1913, Congress passed this and it set up a system of federal banks and gave the government the power to raise or lower interest rates and control the money supply
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