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referendum |
process by which citizens vote on a law passed by their legaslature
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3. Subsidy:
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Payment made by the government to encourage the development of key industries
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16. Graft:
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Use of ones job to gain profit
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1. Gilded age
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The years of 1877 to 1900
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Urban
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1. relating to a city
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4. Spoils system:
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System or practice of giving appointed offices as rewards from the successful party in an election; name for the patronage system under president Jackson.
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12. Suburbs:
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Residential community surrounding a city
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5. Blue laws:
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A law that prohibits private activities such as drinking on Saturday.
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22. Progressive era 1890-1920:
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a period of time in the U.S. history that we became more progressive on local, state and federal levels
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2. Laissez Faire:
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A government policy of not interfering in private business
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Initiative
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1. Process by which citizens propose new laws by gathering signatures in a petition.
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6. Pendleton civil service act of 1883:
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1883 law that created a civil service commission and stated that federal employees could not be required to contribute to campaign funds and could only be fired for political reasons.
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17. Prohibition:
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A legal ban on manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages
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7. Munn vs Illinois:
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1877 supreme court decision that allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders.
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Municipal
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relating to a city as in municipal government
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9. Steerage:
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large open area beneath a ships deck in which many poor immigrants traveled in
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20. Settlement House:
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community center organized to provide various services to the urban poor.
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8. Civil Service:
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System of non-elected government workers
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13. Tenements:
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Crowded apartment building with poor standards of sanitation safety and comfort
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10. Quarantine:
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A time of isolation to prevent the spread of disease
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21. Muckrakers:
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journalist who uncovers the wrongdoing on the part of politicians or corporations
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18. Vice:
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Immoral or corrupt behavior
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11. Segregation:
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Forced sepertaion
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15. Political machiene:
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An unofficial organization to keep a particular group or party in power and usually headed by a single and powerful boss
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19. Temperance
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movement: an organized campaign to eliminate the consumption of alcohol
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14. Ghettos:
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an area where one ethnical or racial group dominates
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