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14 Cards in this Set
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Progressive |
working to improve society in the late 1800s |
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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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Muckrakers |
Journalist who ranked up and exposed the muck or filth of society |
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Recall |
Remove A politician |
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Initiative |
Allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition |
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Referndum |
Permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a government body |
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17th amendment |
Allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S senators |
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Pendleton civil service act |
More than 10 percent of government job applicants had to pass an exam before they could be hired
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Triangle of shirtwaist fire |
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 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 |
Temperance movements typically criticize excessive alcohol consumption, promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), or use its political influence to press the government to enact alcohol laws to regulate the availability of alcohol or even its complete prohibition.
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18th amendment |
Banning the production , sale , and transportation of alcoholic beverages throughout the U.S. |
