Reform & the Progressive Movement
voters can vote on bills directly
What is a referendum
person working to destroy monopolies and trusts
What is a trustbuster?
Requirement that children attend school up to a certain age
What is compulsory education?
Someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit
What is an entrepreneur?
avoiding involvement in other countries’ affairs
What is isolationism?
ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
What is prohibition?
voters select their party candidates
What is a primary?
Sensational reporting style
What is yellow journalism?
Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
What is collective bargaining?
pride in one’s nation or ethnic group
What is nationalism?
taxes people at different rates depending on income
What is a graduated income tax?
system that includes most government jobs, except elected positions, the judiciary, and the military
What is the civil service?
Center offering help to the urban poor
What is a settlement house?
Group of corporations run by a single board of directors
What is a trust?
building empires by imposing political and economic control over peoples around the world
What is imperialism?
voters can propose bills to the legislature
What is an initiative?
voters can remove elected officials from office
What is a recall?
Buildings divided into many tiny apartments
What are tenements?
Company that controls most or all businesses in a particular industry
What is a monopoly?
glorification of the military
What is militarism?
Amendment concerned with women’s right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
murder by a mob
What is lynching?
Person who opposes all forms of government
What is an anarchist?
System in which privately owned businesses compete freely
What is free enterprise?
prejudice against Jews
What is antisemitism?