Chapter 8 Terms Quiz

Question 1

Settlement House

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A center in an underprivileged area that provides community services

Question 2

Direct Primary

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Voters directly choose a the political parties candidates

Question 3

Initiative

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is a political process by which a citizens vote directly on laws

Question 4

Referendum

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citezens are allowed to aprove or decline laws by vote

Question 5

Recall

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citizens can vote to make a presidents term end early

Question 6

Florence Kelley

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Political reformer who fought for rights for women and children and was the first female factory inspector in the U.S.

Question 7

Booker T Washington

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African american author who founded Tuskegee Institute.

Question 7

Ida B wells

Answer 7

African American journalist and activist who led an anti lynching crusade in the 1890s.

Question 8

Carrie Chapman Catt

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Iowa State University alumna who devoted most of her life to the expansion of women’s rights around the world and international peace

Question 9

W.E.B. Du Bois

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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

Question 10

NAACP

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Association that ensures the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice

Question 10

Niagra Movement

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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.

Question 11

Urban League

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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

Question 12

ADL

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Stops the defamation of the Jewish and strive for justice and equality

Question 12

Square Deal

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Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, corporate law, and consumer protection.

Question 13

Hepburn Act

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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

Question 14

Meat Inspection Act

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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.

Question 15

Pure food and drug act

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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce

Question 16

National Reclamation act

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funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 17 states in the American West.

Question 17

New Nationalism

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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.

Question 18

Woodrow Wilson

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28th president who changed the nation’s economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917

Question 19

new freedom

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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.

Question 20

Sixteenth amendment

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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.

Question 21

Federal reserve act

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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.

Question 22

Clayton Anitrust Act

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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