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| 352340475 | Australian ballot | secret voting and the use of official ballots rather than party tickets | |
| 352340476 | Bureau of Reclamation | federal agency founded in 1902 providing public funds funds for irrigation projects in arid regions; played major role is development of West by construction dams, reservoirs, and irrigation systems, especially in the 1930s. | |
| 352340477 | Conservation | the efficient management and use of natural resources (grasslands, forests, rivers). | |
| 352340478 | Eighteenth Amendment | prohibited the manufacture or sale of alcohol in the US; ratified in 1919, repealed in 1933. | |
| 352340479 | Federal Reserve Act | revised banking and currency by extending limited government regulation through the creation of the Federal Reserve System; 1913. | |
| 352340480 | Federal Trade Commission (FTC) | government agency founded in 1914 to provide regulatory oversight of business activity. | |
| 352340481 | Fundamentalists | religious conservatives who believe in the literal accuracy and divine inspiration of the Bible; comes from series of pamphlets called The Fundamentals. | |
| 352340482 | Initiative | procedure by which citizens can introduce a subject for legislation, usually through a petition signed by a specific number of voters. | |
| 352340483 | Muckraking | journalism exposing economic, social, and political evils. | |
| 352340484 | New Freedom | Wilson's 1912 program for limited government intervention in the economy to restore competition by curtailing the restrictive influences of trusts and protective tariffs; provided opportunity for individual achievement. | |
| 352340485 | New Nationalism | Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 program calling for strong national government to foster, regulate, and protect businesses, industry, workers, and consumers. | |
| 352340486 | Niagara Movement | African American group formed in 1905 to promote racial integration, civil and political rights, and equal access to economic opportunity. | |
| 352340487 | Nineteenth Amendment | established women citizen's right to vote; 1920. | |
| 352340488 | Preservation | protecting forests, land, and other natural environment features from development or destruction. | |
| 352340489 | Progressive Era | period of 20th century before WWI when many groups sought to reshape America's government in response to pressures of industrialization and urbanization. | |
| 352340490 | Prohibition | ban on production, transportation, and sale of liquor; achieved temporarily through state laws and 18th amendment. | |
| 352340491 | Recall | process of removing an official from office by popular vote, usually after using petitions to call for such a vote. | |
| 352340492 | Referendum | submission of a law, proposed or already in effect, to a direct popular vote for approval or rejection. | |
| 352340493 | Seventeenth Amendment | established the direct popular election of US senators; 1913. | |
| 352340494 | Sixteenth Amendment | authorized a federal income tax; 1913. | |
| 352340495 | Social Gospel movement | effort by leading Protestants to apply religious ethics to industrial conditions and thereby alleviate poverty, slums, and labor exploitation. | |
| 352340496 | Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act | 1913 reform law that lowered tariff rates and levied the first regular federal income tax. | |
| 352340497 | Wobblies | popular name for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). |
