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14 Cards in this Set
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17TH AMMENDMENT |
The ammendment that allowed voters to vote directly for people in congress |
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PROGRESSIVES |
People who were trying to fix society using the government |
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MUCKRAKERS |
Journalists who looked for bad things in society and reported them |
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RECALL |
Remove |
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INITIATIVE |
Allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a position |
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REFERENDUM |
Permitted voters to approve or reject a law that's had already been proposed or passed by a government body |
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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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TRIANGLE FIRE |
a fire in which a clothes factory was burned down killing 145 workers inside |
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CAPITALISM |
an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth. |
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SOCIALISM |
a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. |
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IWW |
an international industrial labor union, considered radical by many, that was organized in Chicago in 1905 and that disintegrated after 1920. Abbreviation: I.W.W., IWW |
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18th AMENDMENT |
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1918, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption: repealed in 1933. |
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19th AMENDMENT |
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, guaranteeing women the right to vote. |
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NAACP |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.a group of African American activists that peacefully protested for the rights of African American citizens |
