What Is?
the movement of people to cities
urbanization
a process for allowing voters to propose their own legislation
initiative
_____________ vs. ________________ was the court case which ruled separate but equal facilities were constitutional.
Plessy vs. Ferguson
He was a former slave who became leader of Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T. Washington
The evil Mexican Bandit who murdered 18 Americans in Mexico, and then 17 more in New Mexico was ___________________________.
Pancho Villa
the separation of races
segregation
an exemption from a fee or exam to vote if a person, his father, or grandfather could vote before 1867
grandfather clause
________________ were writers who exposed abuse and corruption in government, business, and society.
muckrakers
This man taught at Tuskegee Institute and found HUNDREDS of uses for peanuts.
George Washington Carver
The former President of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey who won the election of 1912 as a Democrat was ___________________.
Woodrow Wilson
those who believe humans cannot know whether there is a God
agnostics
groups dedicated to stopping the consumption of alcohol
temperance societies
The __________________ Act followed Federal Inspectors to examine slaughterhouses and meat companies and regulated companies that manufactured medications.
Pure Food and Drug
He was the founder of the NAACP, the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard, AND was an outspoken critic of discrimination.
W.E.B. Dubois
Taft's policy of influencing foreign affairs through the investment of American money in foreign countries was called _______________ diplomacy.
dollar
a vote to decide whether to remove an official from office before the end of his term
recall
laws that required the forced separation of the races in trains, schools, and other public accomodations.
Jim Crow laws
Under Wilson, Congress created the _________________ System, which divided the nation into twelve banking districts and created a national bank to control the amount of money in circulation and exercise control over many banking operations throughout the country.
Federal Reserve
She founded the Hull House in Chicago to help aid the poor residents.
Jane Addams
The party of progressives who followed Roosevelt in the split of the Republican Party was nicknamed the ___________________ Party.
Bull Moose
a process where the voters determine whether to accept or reject a proposed law
referendum
the movement to bring about political and social reform through education and direct action by the government
progressivism
The author of The Jungle, which exposed the unsafe and unsanitary practices of the meatpacking industry was ________________________.
Upton Sinclair
Teddy Roosevelt chose this man to be his successor as the Republican candidate for President in 1908.
William Howard Taft
Reformers founded _________________ to provide food, clothing, medical care, childcare, recreation, and classes to those living in tenements.
settlement houses