Vocabulary
Person who works to break up powerful combinations of businesses.
What is a trustbuster?
African American journalist who fought against mob violence aimed at African Americans.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This Amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Women first received equal suffrage in this region of the country.
What is the West?
He helped found the National Association for Colored People (NAACP), which used lawsuits as a primary tool to actively fight discrimination and work toward equal rights for African Americans.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
A process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature.
What is an initiative?
Forceful suffragist who met with President Woodrow Wilson.
Who is Alice Paul?
This Amendment gave Congress the power to impose an income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Members of the Temperance Movement wanted to outlaw this.
What is alcohol?
What are barrios?
A vote that results in the removal of an elected official from office.
What is a recall?
Educator who supported patient progress for African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Americans demanded that something be done to limit the power of railroads and monopolies. The government responded by passing this to control railroads and this to keep business from destroying competition.
What are the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890?
This movement rose as a result of people opposing political corruption and poor practices in big business.
What is the Progressive Movement?
What are mutualistas?
An election in which voters choose their party's candidate.
Progressive President known for his tough stance on trusts and who was responsible for the Sherman Anti-trust Act and the Square Deal. He also started the Bull Moose Party.
Who is President Theodore Roosevelt?
A response to the Spoils System, this Act created the Civil Service Commission to fill jobs on the basis of merit instead of political connections.
What is the Pendleton Act?
People criticized and sought to reform the Spoils System because they felt it led to this.
What is corruption?
In 1907, Roosevelt and Japan reached this agreement, which stated that the Japanese would stop sending more workers to the U.S. and the U.S. would allow Japanese women to join their husbands in the U.S.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
This means that people pay taxes at rates depending on their level of income.
What is the graduated income tax?
Democratic President who took office in 1912 and was responsible for the New Freedom, which established the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Reserve and Clayton Anti-trust Act.
Due to this Act, employers on the West coast began hiring Japanese workers in the early 1900s.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The Anti-Defamation League was formed to help this particular group of people fight against prejudice.
Who are the Jews?
Anti-Catholic feeling was common in schools. In response, American Catholics set up their own types of schools known as ______________.
What are Parochial Schools?