Significant Terms
Government-sponsored volunteers who participated in early 20th-century food safety trials led by chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley, consuming foods laced with various preservatives and chemicals to demonstrate the dangers of adulterated products.
What is the Poison Squad?
A vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
What is a secret ballot?
This law established the Fed as the central bank of the United States to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. The law sets out the purposes, structure, and functions of the System as well as outlines aspects of its operations and accountability.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
A vote held by all members of a political party to decide their candidate for public office.
What is a direct primary?
A journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society.
What is a muckraker?
Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of gender.
What is the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
The Democrats nominated Woodrow Wilson, giving him a strong progressive platform called the "New Freedom" program. The Republicans were split between Taft and Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party with its "New Nationalism" program. By the division of the Republican Party, a Democratic victory was ensured. Woodrow Wilson won
What is the 1912 election?
First legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The direct power of the voters to enact new or change existing laws.
What is an intiative?
A novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906. The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, it was an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. Because of the public response, the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906, and conditions in American slaughterhouses were improved.
What is The Jungle?
Established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States
What is the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
The right to vote in political elections.
What is suffrage?
An attempt to influence government action through either written or oral communication.
What is lobbying?
A general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision.
What is a referendum?
A tax someone pays, but the tax burden falls on someone else.
What is an indirect tax?
Established the popular election of United States senators by the people of the states.
What is the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
This political and economic movement began in 1867 to advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the United States.
What is the Grange Movement?
This law defines unethical business practices, such as price-fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
A power reserved to the voters that allows the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official.
What is a recall?
A tax imposed on a person or their property.
What is a direct tax?
Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
What is the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
A third-party movement that sprang up in the 1890s particularly known for advocating the unlimited coinage of silver.
What is the Populist Party?
Support for or advocacy of social reform.
What is progressivism?
Settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider.
What is arbitration?
A tax based on the net income of a person or business.
What is an income tax?