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13 Cards in this Set
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Political Machines🍬🍬🍬 |
Powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office |
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Progressives |
Also working to improve society in the late 1800's |
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Muckrakers |
Called this because they "raked up" and exposed the muck, or filth, of society. |
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Seventeenth Amendment |
Allowed Americans vote directly for U.S senators |
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Recall🚫🚫 |
Remove |
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Initiative |
Allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition |
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Referendum |
Permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been propose or passed by government body. |
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Triangle shirtwaist fire |
TSF and similar accidents led to the passage of laws improving factory safety 👷🏻👷🏻 |
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Capitalism |
An economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines 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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18th Amendment |
Banning the production,sale,and transportation of alcoholic beverages |
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19th amendment |
Granted American woman the right to vote |
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American Woman suffrage association |
To promote the cause of woman suffrage (1890) |
