**Chapter 9 Vocab

Question 1

law forbidding the sale, manufacturing, and consumption of alcohol

Answer 1

prohibition

Question 2

a journalist who exposed the unfortunate aspects of society

Answer 2

Muckracker

Question 3

(gradual)
make changes in order to improve it.

Answer 3

reform

Question 4

allows federal government to collect income tax

Answer 4

16 admendment

Question 5

establishes direct election of senators by how many votes

Answer 5

17 amendment

Question 6

established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport, and sale of alcohol

Answer 6

18 amendment

Question 7

granted American women the right to vote

Answer 7

19 amendment

Question 8

the leading organization promoting prohibition (they support alcohol being illegal)

Answer 8

anti-saloon league

Question 9

the right to vote.

Answer 9

suffrage

Question 10

National American Woman Suffrage Association an organization promoting womens right to vote

Answer 10

NAWSA

Question 11

a fair deal

Answer 11

square deal

Question 12

Act that works to prevent misbranded meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions

Answer 12

meat inspection act

Question 13

law for other drug and food items and truth in advertising

Answer 13

pure food and drug act

Question 14

federal government gets power to choose where water should be distributed

Answer 14

National Reclamation Act

Question 15

is the act of preserving and protecting

Answer 15

conservation

Question 16

wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities

(focused on improving horrible conditions)

Answer 16

upton sinclair / The Jungle

Question 17

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization that promotes equality

Answer 17

NAACP

Question 18

is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices

federal government can REGULATE.

Answer 18

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 19

illegal to form trusts and monopolies when it hurts people

Answer 19

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 20

regulates railroads

Answer 20

Elkins Act

Question 21

federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction

Answer 21

Hepburn Act

Question 22

amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

provides further specification of the antitrusts

Answer 22

Clayton Antitrust

Question 23

federal agencies to stop unfair trade and businesses

Answer 23

Federal Trade Commission

Question 24

is the central banking system of the U.S.

Answer 24

Federal Reserve System