mart US History Terms 1
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| 46865114 | Progressivism | reform movement that believed the situation to social problems lay in a more active role on the part of the government | |
| 46865115 | Muckrakers | journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption | |
| 46865116 | Jacob Riis | muckraker who wrote about the poor conditions facing many immigrant neighborhoods in New York City | |
| 46865117 | Commission plan | a system of city government in which a board of commissioners with expertise in city services hires specialists to run city departments | |
| 46865118 | Robert La Follette | Republican governor of Wisconsin who attacked the way political parties ran their conventions and introduced the direct primary | |
| 46865119 | Direct primary | a party election in which all party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election | |
| 46865120 | Initiative | a reform that allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it | |
| 46865121 | Referendum | a reform that allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to the voters for approval | |
| 46865122 | Recall | a reform that allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term had expired | |
| 46865123 | Suffrage | right to vote | |
| 46865124 | Alice Paul | suffragist who formed the National Woman's Party | |
| 46865125 | Temperance | the moderation or elimination of alcohol | |
| 46865126 | Prohibition laws | banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol | |
| 46865127 | Socialism | the idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole | |
| 46865128 | Square Deal | the reform programs of President Roosevelt | |
| 46865129 | Northern Securities | a giant holding company broken up by Theodore Roosevelt | |
| 46865130 | United Mine Workers | a union for mine workers | |
| 46865131 | Arbitration | a settlement imposed by an outside party | |
| 46865132 | Hepburn act | a law intended to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission | |
| 46865133 | Upton Sinclair | author of The Jungle, which described horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry | |
| 46865134 | Joseph G. Cannon | Speaker of the House under President Taft | |
| 46865135 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff | a law passed during the Taft administration that did not effectively lower tariffs | |
| 46865136 | Richard Ballinger | Taft's secretary of the interior who was a conservative corporate lawyer | |
| 46865137 | Syndicate | a business group |