Vocabulary
Procedure that allows the public to vote to remove an elected official from office.
What is a Recall?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This government act was created due to public outcry following the publication of the book The Jungle.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This man exposed the meat packing industry with his novel The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Referendums, initiatives, and recalls were created to help make the government more this to voters and the public.
What is Responsible and Democratic?
Procedure that allowed the public to put a proposed law on the ballot.
What is an Initiative?
This amendment gave formerly enslaved people US citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A social movement where the goal was to give poor people a place to stay while they got jobs and places to live lined up.
What is the Settlement House movement?
This woman exposed Standard Oil's pathway to becoming a monopoly in the oil business.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This organization was created by President Woodrow Wilson to protect consumers and workers, and to encourage business competition.
What is the Federal Trade Commission or Federal Reserve System?
This term is used for an investigative journalist who is looking to expose some form of injustice in the world.
What is a Muckraker?
This amendment prohibited the consumption or creation of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This act led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration and protected prepared food and medicine being made.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This president continued Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive work with things like the Federal Reserve System or the National Parks System.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This movement combined with the Populist Party ideals led to the creation of the Progressive Movement.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
The Progressive Era and movement was created to correct the injustices caused by this process.
What is industrialization?
Procedure that allows the public to vote to approve or overturn a state law.
What is a Referendum?
This amendment gave Congress the power to collect income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This movement was against the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages.
This man helped establish the NAACP in the early 1900s.
Who is WEB duBois?
The Populist Party was an example of this type of political organization that helped introduce new ideas to the major parties.
What is a Third Party?
An election where voters choose candidates to run for a party's nomination in a future election.
What is a Direct Primary?
This amendment gave the people the power to directly elect their Senators to Congress.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This man helped convince President Theodore Roosevelt on the importance of land conservation in the US.
Who is John Muir?
This woman was an African American reporter who exposed the horrors of lynching happening in the US.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Both Populists and Progressives argued that an increase in the Government's ________ was beneficial as long as it was for the good of the public.
What is power or influence?