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Progressive Era
1876-1914
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| person who wanted to destroy all trusts | trustbuster |
| law that required food and drug makers to list all ingredients on their packages | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| the protection of natural resources | conservation |
| Roosevelt and his supporters split the Republican party in 1912 | Bull Moose Party |
| act to regulate banking | Federal Reserve Act |
| Commission with the power to order companies | Federal Trade Commission |
| former slave who founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama | Brooker T. Washington |
| Professor,author,and public speaker,who was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard | W.E.B. DuBois |
| Organiation formed in 1909 to seek equal rights for African Americans | NAACP |
| scientist who discovered new uses for crops grown in the south | George Washington Carver |
| crusading jounalists who exposed social evils and corruption | muckrackers |
| good of the people | public interest |
| governor who introduced Progressive reforms in Wisconsin | Robert La Fallette |
| election in which voters choose their party's candidate for the general election | primary |
| procudure that allows voters to put a bill directly brbore the state legislature | initiative |
| process in which a bill is submitted to a direct vote of the people | referendum |
| procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office | recall |
| giving jobs to loyal supporters | patronage |
| service that includes all federal jobs exept for elceted positions and those in the armed forces | civil services |
| group resonsible for filling jobs in the federal government | Civil Service Commission |
| group that was to oversee the railroad industry | Interstate Commerce Commission |
| act that prohibited trusts or other businesses from limiting some competition | Sherman Anti-trust Act |
| a president how took steps toward ending the spoils system | Rutherdord Hayes |
| entered the White House in 1881 and tried to kimit the spoils system | James Garfeild |
| Vice President,became president after Garfield's death | Chester Aurthur |
| the public outcry led the government to take steps to__________ railroads and other businesses | regulate |
| The Sherman Antitrust Act was used to stop A._______.Later the courts began to use the Sherman Antitrust Acts aganist B.________ | A: labor unions B: trusts |
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