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US History U2
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- 116th AmendmentThe Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes form incomes
- 217th AmendmentAllows voters to cast direct votes for the US senate
- 318th AmendmentEstablished the prohibition of Alcohol in the US
- 4Federal Reserve Act 1913Created a system to mobilize banking and issue a flexible new currency
- 5Clayton Antitrust ActAn act created to prevent big businesses from becoming a monopoly or other unfair methods of competition
- 6MuckrakerA group of American writers who journaled accounts of corrupted political, economical, and social hardships caused by big businesses
- 7Pure Food and Drug ActProhibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food or drugs; led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- 8InitiativeA power to the voters to propose legislation by petition that would anact, amend, or repeal a City Charter or Provision Code
- 9RecallA power reserved to the voters that allows the voters by petition to demand the removal of an elected official
- 10ReferendumLaws recently passed that are placed on the ballot because of petitions signed by voters
- 11Upton SinclairA famous novelist from California who pioneered the Muckraking journalism
- 12Populist PartyA political party that consisted mostly of farmers who are unhappy at the democratic and republican parties
- 13Direct DemocracyDirect participation of citizens in democratic decision making
- 14Susan B AnthonyOne of the most visible leaders in the women's suffrage movement
- 1519th AmendmentEvery US citizen has the right no matter their sex
- 16W. E. B. DuBoisOne of the most important Black protester leader in the first half of the 20th century
- 17Booker T. WashingtonFought for equal rights among people of color and founded Tuskegee University
- 18Ida B. WellsA prominent journalist and activist who won the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting of violence against African Americans
- 19Jane AddamsShe was the second woman to receive the Peace Prize and fought for the women's suffrage movement
- 20Plessy v.s. FergusonA court case over racial segregation after Plessy refused to sit in a train car for blacks only
- 21Social DarwinismThe idea that some people in society will become more powerful in society because they are just better
- 22NAACPA civil rights organization that fought for advancing justice for the colored people
- 23ConstituentsA voter or elector
- 24Direct ElectionA system of choosing a political office holder where the voters directly cast votes for the persons
- 25ConservationThe act of protecting the Earth's natural resources for the current and future generations
- 26BipartisanAn agreement between two political parties that would usually oppose each other's policies
- 27EugenicsThe study of how to arrange reproduction to increase the occurrence of a certain type of hereditary trait within the population
- 28RatifyTo sign or give formal consent to making it officially valid
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- 11th grade US History Flashcards on US History U2, created by Finley Welton on 05/09/2022.
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