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Federal Trade Commission
agency of the United States government that investigates business and helps to enforce the laws TERM 2
Federal Reserve System
DEFINITION 2 central banking system of the United States. TERM 3
Woodrow Wilson
DEFINITION 3 President of the United States. A leader of the Progressive Movement, TERM 4
Upton Sinclair
DEFINITION 4 American author/novelist who exposed social problems TERM 5
Susan B. Anthony
DEFINITION 5 women's rights movement and introduced women's suffrage into the United States.
What is Conservation?
planned management of natural resources TERM 7
President William H.
Taft
DEFINITION 7 President of the U.S. after Rossevelt TERM 8
Square Deal
DEFINITION 8 President Roosevelt'splan to protect the common people from big business. TERM 9
Progressive Movement
DEFINITION 9 Protect social welfare and improving and promoting social, political, and economic reform and foster efficiency TERM 10
Muckracker
DEFINITION 10 journalists who wrote for magazines and the corruption of business and public life
Bully Pulpit
provide an opportunity to speak out and be listened to. Teddy Roosevelt was known for it. TERM 17
Pure Food and Drug Act
DEFINITION 17 a law to stop unclean food and drugs from being made and sold TERM 18
NAACP
DEFINITION 18 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, African-American civil rights organization in the United States, the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination-. TERM 19
1912 Election
DEFINITION 19 Election with 4 candidates instead of 2 TERM 20
Assembly Line
DEFINITION 20 manufacturing process ( Ford Motor Company) that produces a product in a sequential manner to create a finished product much fasterand less cost
17th
Amendment
Senators to be elected directly TERM 22
Goals of Prohibitionists
DEFINITION 22 a cause taken up by the Woman's Christians Temperance Union TERM 23
Child Labor
DEFINITION 23 raised the age, limited what kind of jobs and how long they can work TERM 24
Suffrage Strategies
DEFINITION 24 Organizing National American Womens' Suffrage Association TERM 25
Roosevelt and Trust
DEFINITION 25 Filed 44 antitrust Suits under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
