muckraker - reporters and writers who exposed corruption and the abuses of big business, suffrage - the right to vote, 18th amendment - Prohibition - prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, 19th amendment - established the right to vote for women, recall - procedure by which a public official may be removed from public office by popular vote, referendum - procedure by which voters can vote for a proposed initiative on a ballot, trustbuster - term used to describe Roosevelt's attempt to reform big business by breaking up trusts, conservation - the preservation of wilderness areas, Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) - regulation of the preparation of foods and then sale of medicines, Bull Moose Party - Teddy Roosevelt's political party in the election of 1912. Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate., W.E.B. Du Bois - Early civil rights leader and co-founder of the NAACP. He demanded equality for African Americans, Upton Sinclair - author of "The Jungle" a book that described the terrible conditions of the meat packing industry. His book led to the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act,

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