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17 Cards in this Set
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progressive era
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Turn of the century reform movement dedicated to political and social change through government action
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spoils system
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gives goverment gobs to sorpoters
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muckraker
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writers during the Progressive Era who exposed conditions needing reform.
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monopoly
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when a person contros a whole industry
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primary
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Voters select the candidate for the general election -Effort to have citizens participate more in government
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initiantive
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gave voters the right to put a bill directly before the state legislature to vote on
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referendum
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Putting a bill right on the ballot & having voters decide whether or not to vote it into law
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recall
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removal of a corrupt official from elected office
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16th amendement
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income tax (1913)
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17th admendement
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direct election of Senators by voters--expands democracy (1912)
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18th amendent
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Prohibition--outlawed the sale of alcohol from 1917-1932
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19th amendent
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granted women right to vote (1920)
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suffragist
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individual who fought for women's right to vote
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meat inspection
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made is so that meat had to be clean
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"the jungle"
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a book that open up peoples eyes about the meat industry
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pure food and drug act
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result of the Jungle, forces food and drug products to have labels listing dietary content
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prohibition
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the ban of achole
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