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Chapter 6 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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1. Muckraker | A journalist who spys on a community for corruption |
2. Direct Primary | a vote held by all party members of a political party to decide who is elected next |
3. Initiative | rights of citizen that allows them to measure or issue before a legislature. |
4. Referendum | practice of letting voters agree or disagree on issues by the legislature |
5. Recal | right of voters that allows them to remove an official |
6. Suffarage | the right to vote |
7. Prohibition | laws that ban anything to do with alchohal |
8. Arbitration | settling a dispute by agreeing on a third parties decision |
9. Social Darwinism | Charles Darwin's theory of only the strong survive |
10. Insubordination | disobedience to authority |
11. Income tax | tax directly on how much you make |
12. Unfair trade practices | trading practices that derive a gain at the expense of competition. |