unit 6 level 1

Activist

a person dedicated to the cause of reform and prepared to use political action toward that goal

Arbitration

a legal process in which a neutral outside party helps resolve a dispute

Civil Service

nonmilitary government employees

Conservation

the limited use of natural resources

Eighteenth Amendment

Extractive Industries 

businesses that take mineral resources from the earth

Federal Reserve System

the central banking authority of the United States, which manages the nation's money supply

Graduated Income Tax

an income tax requiring people with higher incomes to pay a larger percentage of their earnings than people with lower incomes

Hull House

the first settlement house in Chicago, founded by Jane Addams

Infrastructure

the facilities or equipment required for an organization or community to function, including roads, sewage and power systems, and transportation

Initiative

a lawmaking reform enabling citizens to propose and pass a law directly without the state legislature

Muckrakers 

a journalist who wrote about social, environmental, and political problems Americans faced in the early 1900s

National American Woman Suffrage Association

a group formed by leading suffragists in the late 1800s to organize the women's suffrage movement

National Association of the Advancement of Colored People

a group formed in 1909 to fight through the courts to end segregation and ensure that African American men could exercise voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment

National Child Labor Committee

a progressive organization formed in 1904 to promote laws restricting or banning child labor

New Freedom

President Woodrow Wilson's reform program that focused on transferring power from the trusts to small businesses and average citizens, restricting corporate influence, and reducing corruption in the federal government

Nineteenth Amendment

a constitutional change ratified in 1920 declaring that women have the right to vote in state and national elections