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15 Cards in this Set
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Political machines |
Powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get candidates to vote |
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Progressives |
Where also working to improve society |
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Muckrakers |
Journalist that raked up and exposed the muck |
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Seventeen admendment |
Allowed Americans to vote directly for u.s candaintis |
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Recall |
Remove |
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Initiave |
allowed voters to propose a new law |
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Referendum |
Permitted voters to approve or reject a law |
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Robert M. La Follette |
Decrease the power of political machines |
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Triangle fire |
Led to passage of laws improving factory safety |
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Capitalism |
an economic system in which private business run most industries and competition determine the price of goods |
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Socialism |
A system in which the government owns and operates a country's means of production |
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Industrial workers of the world |
(IWW) a socialist Union caused by the Big Bill |
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18th amendment |
Banning the production sale and transportation of alcoholic beverage throughout the United states |
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19th admendment |
granting the women the right to vote |
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NAACP |
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) an organization that called for economic education equality for African Americans |
