Chapter 8 Terms Quiz Flashcards
Settlement House
A center in an underprivileged area that provides community services
Direct Primary
Voters directly choose a the political parties candidates
Initiative
is a political process by which a citizens vote directly on laws
Referendum
citezens are allowed to aprove or decline laws by vote
Recall
citizens can vote to make a presidents term end early
Florence Kelley
Political reformer who fought for rights for women and children and was the first female factory inspector in the U.S.
Booker T Washington
African american author who founded Tuskegee Institute.
Ida B wells
African American journalist and activist who led an anti lynching crusade in the 1890s.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Iowa State University alumna who devoted most of her life to the expansion of women’s rights around the world and international peace
W.E.B. Du Bois
Fought lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. He was the first black person to earn a PHD from Harvard. founded niagra movement
NAACP
Association that ensures the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice
Niagra Movement
Movement of African-American intellectuals that was founded in 1905 at Niagara Falls by such prominent men as W. E. B. DuBois and William Monroe Trotter. The movement was dedicated to obtaining civil rights for African-Americans.
Urban League
Organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States
ADL
Stops the defamation of the Jewish and strive for justice and equality
Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, corporate law, and consumer protection.
Hepburn Act
1906 United States federal law that expanded the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission and gave it the power to set maximum railroad rates. This led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shipper
Meat Inspection Act
law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions.
Pure food and drug act
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
National Reclamation act
funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 17 states in the American West.
New Nationalism
made in 1910. The central issue he argued was government protection of human welfare and property rights, but he also argued that human welfare was more important than property rights.
Woodrow Wilson
28th president who changed the nation’s economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917
new freedom
1912 presidential campaign, pledging to restore unfettered opportunity for individual action and to employ the power of government in behalf of social justice for all.
Sixteenth amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Federal reserve act
signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.
Clayton Anitrust Act
is a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act seeks to prevent anti-competitive practices in their incipiency. 1914
