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 Accountable 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 president began the process of conserving land for future National Parks.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This process was used to create steel faster and for less money.
What is the Bessemer Process?
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?
Progressivism was created to correct the injustices caused by this process.
What is industrialization?
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 encouraged Americans to help their fellow man and led to the Progressive Party.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
Progressives and Populists agreed that some of this was needed to protect consumers from abuses of industrialization.
What is government/federal regulations?
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.
What is the Temperance Movement?
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?
A preliminary election where voters decide their party's candidates.
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 and advocating for equality.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This act established a merit system for evaluating government employees.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act?