vocab Flashcards
A period in time in America that was marked by extravagant spending and political corruption
Gilded Age
Giving jobs to followers
Patronage
Ability
Merit
Government agency created by the Pendleton Act of 1883 to fill federal jobs on the basis of merit
Civil Service Commission
All federal jobs except elected offices and those in the military
civil service
Government agency organized to oversee railroad commerce
Interstate Commerce Commision
An 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States
Sherman Antitrust Act
Powerful politician who controls work done locally and demands payoff from business.
Political boss
Journalists who exposed corruption and other problems of the late 1800s and early 1900s
Muckraker
Reformer in the late 1800s and early 1900s who who wanted to improve American life
Progressive
The good of the people
Pubic interest
Series of progressive reforms introduced in the early 1900s by Wisconsin governor Robert La Follette
Wisconsin idea
Election in which voters choose their party’s candidate for the general election
Primary
Process by which voters can but a bill directly before state legislature
Initative
Process by which people vote directly on a bill
Referendum
Process by which voters can remove an elected official from office
Recall
Tax on earnings that charges different rates for different income levels
Graduated income tax
Person who wanted to destroy all trusts
Trustbuster
Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign promise that all groups will have equal opportunity to succeed
Square Deal
A 1906 law that required food and drug makers to list ingredients on packaging
Pure Food and Drug Act
Protection of natural resources
Conservation
Area set aside by the national government for people to visit
National Park
Progressive Republicans who supported Theodore Roosevelt during the election of 1912
Bull Moose Party
Woodrow Wilson’s plan to break up trusts and restore American economic competition
New Freedom
