Definitions
Recall Election
when an elected official can be removed before the end of their term
Law that required federal inspection of meats
Meat Inspection Act
19th amendment
women's suffrage (right to vote)
the Progressive party is also known as...
Bull Moose Party
Muckrakers
journalists whose goal was to expose corruption in society
Jacob Riis
18th amendment
prohibition (banning) of alcohol
Smaller countries imperialized by bigger countries face negative effects like
losing resources, losing control of their government, losing money, power, land, etc.
Referendum
when citizens vote to keep/deny a law already made by the government
3rd party Teddy Roosevelt ran under in the election of 1912
Progressive Party
16th amendment
congress can collect income tax
Resources, money, land, power, etc.
Imperialism
when a bigger/stronger country takes over a smaller/weaker country
Policy created by Teddy Roosevelt that tried to solve problems from the Gilded Age
Square Deal
17th amendment
direct election of senators
This president passed the first official child labor law
Woodrow Wilson
Initiative
when citizens create a new law from a petition
President who won the election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson
Movement that worked to ban alcohol through passing the 18th amendment
Temperance Movement
The court case Northern Securities vs. the U.S. decided
Northern Securities violated the Sherman Antitrust Act