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15 Cards in this Set
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Political machines |
a powerful organization that influenced city and county politics in the late 1800s |
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Progressives |
a group of reformers who worked to improve social and political problems in the late 1800s |
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Muckrakers |
a term coined for journalists who “raked up” and exposed corruption and problems of society |
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Recal |
a vote to remove an official from office |
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Initiative |
a method of allowing voters to propose a new law if enough signatures are collected in petition |
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referendum |
a procedure that allows voters o approve or reject a law already proposed or passes by government |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
a factory fire that killed 146 workers trapped in the building; led to new safety standards |
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capitalism |
an economic system in which private businesses run most industries |
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conservation |
the planed management of natural recourses to prevent their destruction |
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Pure Food and Drug Act |
(1906) a law that set regulatory standards for industries employed in preparing food |
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
(NAACP) an organization formed in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois and other reforms to bring attention to racial inequality |
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19th Amendment |
a constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote (1920) |
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18th Amendment |
a constitutional amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S (repealed in 1933) |
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17th Amendment |
a constitutional amendment allowing American voters to directly elect U.S. senators |
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socialism |
an economic system in which the government owns and operates a countries means of production |
