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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 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 |
They were journalists. They raked up and exposed the muck, or filth of society |
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Recall |
Remove |
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Initiative |
A procedure that allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition. |
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Referendum |
A measure that permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a goverment body |
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Seventeenth Amendement |
Allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. Senators |
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Pendleton Civil Service Act |
Passed in 1883, this law set up a merit system for awarding federal jobs. |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
This accedent and others led to the passage of laws improving factory safety standards |
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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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Suffrage |
The right to vote in political elections
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Temperance |
R |
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18th Amendement |
E |
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19th Amendment |
E |
