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12 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 |
Were also working to improve society in the late 1800's |
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Muckrakers |
Journalists who exposed the muck or filth of society |
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17th amendment |
Allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. Senators |
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Recall |
To remove an official before the end. Of his term |
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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 proposed or passed by a government body |
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Pendleton civil service act |
A law that set a merit system for awarding federal jobs(they have to take a test to get in) |
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Suffrage |
The right to vote (women) |
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19th amendment |
Gave women the right to vote in 1920 |
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Temperence movement |
-attempted to restrict the consumption of alcoholic beverages |
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18th amendment |
Called "prohibition" banned the manufacture sale and transport of intoxicating beverages. |
