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14 Cards in this Set
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Progressive |
We're also working to improve society in the late 1800 |
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Political machines |
Powerful organization that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office |
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Muckrakers |
Rake up |
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Recall |
Remove |
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Initiative |
Allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures |
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Referendum |
Permitted votes to approve or reject a law |
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17th amendment |
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Pendleton civil service act |
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Triangle |
similar accident led to passage of laws improving factory safety standards |
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Capitalism |
An economic system in which private business run most industries and competition determines the prices of good |
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Socialism |
A system in which the government owns and operates a country means of production |
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Suffrage temperance |
Temperance movements typically criticize excessive alcohol consumption, promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), or use its political influence to press the government to enact alcohol laws to regulate the availability of alcohol or even its complete prohibition.
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