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FIVE I'S
POLITICAL
REFORMS
PRESIDENTS
WORDY WORDS
REFORM IN THE GILDED AGE
100
one country controls the money and government of another.
What is imperialism?
100
Election in which voters choose their party's candidate.
What is a primary?
100
Speaking softly and carrying a big stick abroad, he promised Americans a "Square Deal" at home.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
to control
What is to regulate
100
system by which politicians give government jobs to their friends and supporters
What is the spoils system?
200
Edison's electric generator is an example of this "I"
What is invention?
200
a way for voters to put a bill before the legislature.
What is an initiative?
200
Our "Biggest" President, his foreign policy was Dollar Diplomacy.
Who is William H. Taft?
200
a group of businesses run as one company.
What is a trust?
200
Job of the Civil Service Commission.
What is conduct tests to be sure only qualified people got federal government jobs?
300
Factory jobs and available farmland were the causes of this "I"
What is immigration?
300
a way for voters to vote a bill directly into law.
What is a referendum?
300
"He kept us out of war" until 1917.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
another name for a law.
What is an act?
300
Commission created to be sure that railroads did not keep prices high or reduce competition?
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
400
Building machines and factories to manufacture goods.
What is industrialization?
400
a way for voters to remove an elected official from office.
What is a recall?
400
Spanish American War President.
Who is McKinley?
400
a company that has no competitors and controls an industry or a board game
What is a monopoly?
400
This act made it illegal for companies to restrict competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
People buying a share of a business.
What is investment?
500
a proposed law.
What is a bill?
500
President killed by disappointed office-seeker in 1881.
Who is James Garfield?
500
making large quantities of a product cheaply and quickly
What is mass production?
500
This Commission had the power to investigate businesses and order them to stop using practices to destroy their competition.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?