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Chinese Exclusive Act
The statute of 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared the Chinese as ineligible for naturalization. Chinese workers already in the country challenged the constitutionality of the discriminatory acts, but their efforts failed.The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
Robber Barons
Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages. They also drove their competitors out of business by selling their products cheaper than it cost to produce it. Then when they controlled the market, they hiked prices high above original price. -
Initiative
Voters can directly introduce bills to be considered at the state level -
Referendum
a general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision. -
Recall
elections are used to remove an elected official from office before the end of the official's term -
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Progressive Era
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This law was designed to make it much more difficult for business mergers to occur and for monopolies to form. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Required Food and Drug maker to list the ingredients. It also tried to end the false advertising and the use of impure ingredients -
Bull moose Party
a former political party in the United States; founded by Theodore Roosevelt during the presidential campaign of 1912.made of republican progressives who formed a new third party. Platform called for the direct election of senators, adoption of the initiative, referendum, and recall, and also advocated woman suffrage -
Consumerism
to encourage the attainment of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933 -
Women Suffrage
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women's suffrage, -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States -
Tenements
Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
