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Age of Tx Reform
Age of Reform in Texas vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Reform | Changes made to improve something |
Poll Tax | A tax that each person must pay in order to vote. |
Prohibition | Movement to ban (make illegal) alchohol. |
Temperance | The act of staying away from (Avoidance) Alcohol. |
Suffrage | the right to vote. |
18th Amendment | Amendment passed in 1918 that prohibited (made it agains the law) to manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.NO ALCOHOL |
19th Amendment | Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed in 1919 that allowed women the right to vote.RIGHT TO VOTE |
Monopoly | one company's complete control over a type of product or service in a market - ex: Electric Company. |
Trust | A group of companies in the same industry (like oil, or cheetos, or hairspray) that set prices and reduce competition. |
populism | a political movement (IDEA) of the common people (you and me) that resulted in the formation of the People's Party. |
Progressivism | Improving society by goverment. |