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16 Cards in this Set
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Political machine |
Powerful organizations linked to political parties |
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Kickback |
An arrangement in which contractorters padded the amount of their bill for city work and paid back a percentage of that amount to the bosses |
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Boss Tweed |
Headed New York city's democratic polition Tammant Hall |
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Civil service |
The body of non-elected government workers |
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Spoils system |
Gave them government jobs |
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Trusts |
Combinations of companies |
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muckrakers |
A journelist who uncovers abuses are corruption ion a society |
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Lincoln Steffens |
Reported for McClures's magazines and exposed corrupt machine politics in New York, Chicago, and other cities. |
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Upton Sinclair |
Described the horrors at meat packing industery in Chicago |
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Meat Inspection Act |
Banning the sale of harmful food |
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Pure Food And Drug Act |
Labeling food and medicine |
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Robert LaFollette |
Led Wisconsin reform- minded Republicans, he is also called "Fighting Bob" |
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Primary |
An election allowing the state's voters to choose their party's candidates |
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Initative |
The right of citizen to place a measure or issue before the voter on the legeslative for approval |
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Referendum |
The practice of letting voters accept or reject measure proposed by the legislative |
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Recall |
The right that enabled |
