Chapter 19 Vocab

Question 1

Civil service

Answer 1

The system that includes most government jobs except, elected positions, the judiciary, and the military

Question 2

Primary

Answer 2

Is an election of which voters rather than party leaders choose their party candidate

Question 3

Recall

Answer 3

A process by which people may vote to remove an elected official from office

Question 4

Initiative

Answer 4

Process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature

Question 5

Graduated income tax

Answer 5

A method of taxation that takes people at different rates, depending on income

Question 6

Muckraker

Answer 6

The term for crusading journalist

Question 7

Trustbuster

Answer 7

A person working to destroy monopolies and trusts

Question 8

Conservatism

Answer 8

The protection of natural resources

Question 9

National park

Answer 9

Natural area protected and manage by the federal government

Question 10

Suffragists

Answer 10

People who works for women’s rights to vote

Question 11

Prohibition

Answer 11

A ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol

Question 12

Lynching

Answer 12

Murder by a mob

Question 13

Parochial school

Answer 13

School sponsored by Church

Question 14

Anti-semitism

Answer 14

Or prejudice against Jews

Question 15

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 15

Became president at age 42 and the youngest president of the United States

Question 16

William Howard Taft

Answer 16

27th President of the United States

Question 17

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 17

28th President of the United States member of the democratic party

Question 18

Carrie Chapman calt

Answer 18

Americans women suffrage leader

Question 19

Alice Paul

Answer 19

American women’s rights activist

Question 20

Francis Willard

Answer 20

American educator

Question 21

Booker T. Washington

Answer 21

An American educator, author, and orator

Question 22

W.E.B Du Bois

Answer 22

American sociologist, socialist, historian, and pan-Africanist civil rights activist