Reform
- To change for the better
- Example: passing the ¨ meat inspection act ¨
progressivism
- Fixing society with government change
- Example: passing the prohibition of alcohol (18th amendment)
tenements
- slum apartments in cities
- Example: the apartment they live in in the jungle
political corruption
- using a position of power to benefit yourself or your friends.
Example: taking bribes.
populism
-more power to ordinary people.
Americanization
-Immigrants learning to be ¨american¨.
public education
- government-run schools
- Example: Lancaster City schools.
Environmental regulations
- Laws about how environments treated
- Example: its illegal to dump waste from your factory int rivers.
Conservation
- protecting and preserving the environment.
suffrage
- the right to vote.
16th amendment
- The federal government can collect income tax.
17th Amendment
- senators are directly elected by the people of their state, rather than being appointed by the state government.
18th amendment
- Prohibition
- Banned alcohol everywhere in the us
19th amendment
- Gave women the right to vote.
Sherman Anit- trust
- Anti- monopolies merging and helped labor unions.
clayton anti-trust act
- stopped monopolies merging and helped labor unions
Muckrakers
- Journalists who exposed wrongdoing
Theodore Roosevelt
- Progressive president: fought for conservation
federal reserve system
- central bank created to protect banks from falling
sixteenth amendment
- allowed income tax
initiative
- a bill originating with the people rather than lawmakers
Referendum
- a vote on an initiative
recall
-enablesvoters to remove elected officials from public office through a special edition
Directprimary
- made it so the people could choose candidates rather than party leaders and political bosses choosing them.
