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15 Cards in this Set
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Political machine |
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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Recall |
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 on a petition |
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Referendum |
a procedure that allows voters to approve or reject a law already proposed or passed by government |
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Triangle shirtwaist fire |
a factory fire that killed 146 workers trapped in the building; led to new safety standard laws |
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Capitalism |
an economic system in which private businesses run most industries |
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Socialism |
economic system in which the government owns and operates a country’s means of production |
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Seventeenth amendment |
(1913) a constitutional amendment allowing American voters to directly elect U.S. senators |
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Eighteenth amendment |
(1919) a constitutional amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States; repealed in 1933 |
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Nineteenth amendment |
(1920) a constitutional amendment that gave women the vote |
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
an organization founded in 1909 by W. E. B. Du Bois and other reformers to bring attention to racial inequality |
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Pure food and drug act |
(1906) a law that set regulatory standards for industries involved in preparing food |
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Conservation |
the planned management of natural resources to prevent their destruction |
