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Chapter 19 US History

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  • What were mutualistas?
    self-help groups formed by Mexican Americans
  • The crusading journalist Ida Tarbell was a well known______
    muckraker
  • Most federal jobs during the Gilded Age were part of ______
    civil service
  • Which president established the Federal Trade Commission in 1914?
    Woodrow Wilson
  • When the public votes for or against a proposed law it is ...
    referendum
  • Who was the educator who promoted patient progress for African Americans?
    Brooker T. Washington
  • W.E.B DuBois founded the _____
    NAACP or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • What is the process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature called
    initiative
  • Who was Alice Paul?
    A forceful suffragist who confronted Woodrow Wilson about suffrage
  • What was a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol called?
    Prohibition
  • What is a trustbuster?
    A person who works to destroy monopolies and trusts
  • What group fought prejudice against Jewish people?
    The Anti-Defamation League
  • Who often lived in "barrios"
    Mexican - Americans
  • A recall does what?
    Gives people a chance to remove an elected official from office
  • What was a parochial school?
    Educational facility sponsored by a church
  • True or False: Sarah Walker often wrote against lynching in her newspaper.
    False, Ida B Wells
  • Who was a suffragist with a detailed plan to win the vote state by state
    Carrie Chapman Catt
  • An election in which voters choose their party's candidate is a ...
    primary
  • True or False: The Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act were passed to limit the power of big business
    True
  • Why did reformers in the Gilded Age criticized the spoils system?
    It spread corruption
  • How did the "Gentlemen's Agreement" affect Chinese women?
    They got to join their husbands in the United States
  • Theodore Roosevelt formed the ______ Party
    Bull Moose
  • True or False: Mexican and Japanese immigrants often faced prejudice
    True
  • True or False: Women first received equal suffrage in the North.
    False, West
  • True or false: The chief goal of company owners was to give more power to voters
    False
  • Who helped found the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
    Brooker T Washington
  • Members of the temperance movement wanted to outlaw ...
    alcohol
  • What is lynching
    being hung by a mob
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