reconstruction trivia vocabulary, key events, and important people review
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RECONSTRUCTION TRIVIA
Vocabulary, Key Events, and Important People Review
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Crusading journalist who uncovered the
problems in American society Muckraker
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
System that includes most government jobs (except elected positions, judicial
positions, and military positions)
Civil Service
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Process by which citizens vote directly on
a bill (law)
Referendum
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Protection of natural resources
Conservation
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Process that allows voters to put a bill before
state legislature (idea to start a law)
Initiative
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Person who worked to destroy
monopolies and trusts
Trustbuster
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
(Prohibit = to ban)
Prohibition
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Natural area protected and
managed by the federal government
National Park
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Prejudice against Jews
Anti-Semitism
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Election in which voters, rather than party leaders,
choose their party’s candidate for an election
(Primary = first; first election)
Primary
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
When a mob illegally seizes and executes someone
Lynching
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Tax on earning that charges different rates for
different income levels
Graduated Income Tax
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Person who worked for women’s right
to vote
Suffragist
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
Process by which voters can remove an elected official from
office (Recall = to take a broken product
away)
Recall
THE FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT VOCABULARY WORD?
School sponsored by a church
Parochial School