vocab

Question 1

A period in time in America that was marked by extravagant spending and political corruption

Answer 1

Gilded Age

Question 2

Giving jobs to followers

Answer 2

Patronage

Question 3

Ability

Answer 3

Merit

Question 4

Government agency created by the Pendleton Act of 1883 to fill federal jobs on the basis of merit

Answer 4

Civil Service Commission

Question 5

All federal jobs except elected offices and those in the military

Answer 5

civil service

Question 6

Government agency organized to oversee railroad commerce

Answer 6

Interstate Commerce Commision

Question 7

An 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States

Answer 7

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 8

Powerful politician who controls work done locally and demands payoff from business.

Answer 8

Political boss

Question 9

Journalists who exposed corruption and other problems of the late 1800s and early 1900s

Answer 9

Muckraker

Question 10

Reformer in the late 1800s and early 1900s who who wanted to improve American life

Answer 10

Progressive

Question 11

The good of the people

Answer 11

Pubic interest

Question 12

Series of progressive reforms introduced in the early 1900s by Wisconsin governor Robert La Follette

Answer 12

Wisconsin idea

Question 13

Election in which voters choose their party’s candidate for the general election

Answer 13

Primary

Question 14

Process by which voters can but a bill directly before state legislature

Answer 14

Initative

Question 15

Process by which people vote directly on a bill

Answer 15

Referendum

Question 16

Process by which voters can remove an elected official from office

Answer 16

Recall

Question 17

Tax on earnings that charges different rates for different income levels

Answer 17

Graduated income tax

Question 18

Person who wanted to destroy all trusts

Answer 18

Trustbuster

Question 19

Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign promise that all groups will have equal opportunity to succeed

Answer 19

Square Deal

Question 20

A 1906 law that required food and drug makers to list ingredients on packaging

Answer 20

Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 21

Protection of natural resources

Answer 21

Conservation

Question 22

Area set aside by the national government for people to visit

Answer 22

National Park

Question 23

Progressive Republicans who supported Theodore Roosevelt during the election of 1912

Answer 23

Bull Moose Party

Question 24

Woodrow Wilson’s plan to break up trusts and restore American economic competition

Answer 24

New Freedom

Question 25

A 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave the government the power to control the money supply

Answer 25

Federal Reserve Act

Question 26

Government Agency created in 1914 to ensure fair competition

Answer 26

Federal Trade Commision