Power to the People
Referendum
Process by which voters vote directly on a bill.
Upton Sinclair
Wrote about the horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry. Led to change
The practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs
Spoils System
Roosevelt's campaign promise that all Americans would have the same opportunity to succeed.
Square Deal
The name of the preacher in the video preaching about the evils of alcohol.
Billy Sunday
Initiative
Process that voters to put a bill before a legislature
Temperance
Movement to wanted to make alcohol illegal
A tax based on income. The more you make, the more they take
Graduated Income Tax
Roosevelt was the first president to act on this. Protection of our national resources.
Conservation
People who supported a woman's right to vote.
Suffragists
Recall
process by which voters can remove an elected official from office
Lynching
murder by a mob, usually a hanging
System that includes most government jobs where those jobs are gotten by what you know, not who you know.
Civil Service
Roosevelt was nicknamed this because he wanted to get rid of bad trusts.
Trustbuster
Our most obese president
William Howard Taft
Primary
Election in which voters rather than party leaders, choose their party's candidate for the general election
Journalists who exposed corruption in government and big business
Muckrakers
Government agency that makes sure businesses are not misleading the public.
Federal Trade Commission
Roosevelt was the president when this group started. This organization steps in when they feel African Americans are being discriminated against.
N.A.A.C.P.
Created the National Park system
Teddy Roosevelt
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote nation wide
Period from 1919 to 1933 when alcohol was illegal
Prohibition
Reform movement of the early 1900s that wanted to stop the corruption in government and big business.
Progressiveism
Roosevelt acted after reading this book by Upton Sinclair.
The Jungle
In the video, what did the oilmen use to keep the drill hole from collapsing?
Mud