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18 Cards in this Set
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Term for early 20th Century movements to reform government, promote social welfare, and create economic reform
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Progressivism
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Term for a writer who exposed corruption in American Society
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muckraker
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System to allow voters, rather than party conventions, to choose candidates to run for public office
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Direct primary
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To vote an official out of office
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Recall
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A law passed in 1890 that made it illegal for corporations to gain control of industries by forming Trusts
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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First progressive US president who believed that governments purpose was to ensure people a "square deal"
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Term for controlling the use of America's natural resources - The creation of national parks, for example
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Conservation
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Upton Sinclair's novel about a Chicago meat packing plant; it prompted Roosevelt to pass the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.
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The Jungle
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1908 president, mighty pursuer of antitrust suits , appointed to the Supreme Court in 1921
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William Howard Taft
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Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1913, that gave congress the power to create income taxes.
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16th Amendment
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Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1913, that provided for direct election of US Senators.
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17th Amendment
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1912-1920 progressive president, worked to regulate trusts, empower labor, and reform the US Banking system.
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Woodrow Wilson
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The 1914 law that protected labor union activities and took measures against monopolies.
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Clayton Anti-trust Act
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Law Passed in 1913 that improved the nations banking system and instituted a flexible currency system
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Federal Reserve Act
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Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, also called the Prohibition Amendment
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18th Amendment
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An organizer of the Women's suffrage movement and National American Women Suffrage Association President
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Susan B Anthony
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Suffragist who argued that the US had to give women the vote because they were supporting the war effort.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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The amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1920, that gave women full voting rights
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19th Amendment
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