Amendments
16st Amendment
What is lets the federal government tax civilian income
What is laissez-faire economics
What is hands-off economics
Who was Theodore Roosevelt and what did he do
what is The 26 president and helped the poor by being very present in the economy and created the FDA
What was the Commission Plan
What is a plan to let the citizens vote for a board of commissioners to fight local patronage
What is a Direct Primary
What is allows people to directly vote for a candidate to run for president
17th Amendment
What is giving the people the right to vote for state senators directly
what are muckrakers
What is a journalist that investigates social conditions and political corruption
Who was William Howard Taft an what did he do
what is the 27th president and he wanted tariffs to be lowered
What was the Pendleton civil service act
What is an act that implemented a merit-based system to replace the before patronage system
Who was Elizabeth Stanton
what is an early leader in the women's sufferage movement
18th Amendment
What is prohibition/ the ban of alcohol
What is an initiative
What is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a government to choose to either enact a law or hold a public vote
Who was Woodrow Wilson and what did he do
what is the 28th president and he supported enactment of the federal income tax
What does the FDA do
What is Regulate foods and drugs being sold to the public
What did Carrie Chapman Catt do
What is directed the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and founded the League of Women Voters (1920) to bring women into the political mainstream
19th Amendment
What is women's sufferage
What is a referendum
What is a general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision
Who was William Mckinley and what did he do
He was the 25 president and he supported an economic reform to the gold standard
What is the women's suffrage act
What is the act that led to women gaining the right to vote
Uptown Sinclair's "The Jungle" led to
What is the meat inspection act
21st Amendment
The repeal of the 18th amendment
What is a recall
What is allows voters to take an official out of office before their term ends
Who was Robert La Follette
What is a Wisconsin Governor that battled State corruption
What was the temperance movement
What is a movement that advocated for the ban of alcohol and let to the implementation of the 18th amendment
What is the meat inspection act
What is signed by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt on June 30, 1906, that prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.