Chapter 18 Social Studies

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Progressive Era

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The time period between 1870 and 1920, reform movment dedicated to political and social change through government actions

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Reform

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To fix or make something better

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Spoils System

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When an elected official puts the people who helped get them there in places in the government

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Pendelton Civil Service Act

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Created the Civil Service Comission to test people who wanted to be placed in government positions

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Monopoly

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When a company controls an entire industry

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Forbidded buisness from trying to overcome or destroy eachother (prevented monopoiles)

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Muckraker

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A investigative reporter that dug up dirt on corruption in America

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Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis

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Famous muckrakers, Upton wrote The Jungle, Ida exposed Mr. Rockefeller, and Jacob exposed the hardships of slum life

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Primary

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An election previous to the main election to choose a running canidate for a party

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Initiative

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Gave people the right to give a proposed bill to the state legislature to vote on

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Referendum

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Putting a bill on a ballot to have people vote on whether it should be a law or not

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Recall

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The process to remove a corrupt official from office

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16th Amendment

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Set an income tax (1913)

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17th Amendment

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Prohibits direct election of senators by voters, helping to further democracy (1912)

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18th Amendment

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Prohibition, or a ban on the sale of alcahol from 1917-1932

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19th Amendment

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Granted women the right to vote (1920)

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Sufferage

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the fight for the right for women to vote

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Meat Inspection Act

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Act that stated that all meat processing places will be inspected to make sure the meat is being made safely and cleanly

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"The Jungle"

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Book that exposed the way that Americas meat was really made (with rotten meat and rats)

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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Required that all products must show their ingredients on the container of their product

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Prohibition

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the prevention of alcahol

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Civil Service Comission

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system that made you take a test to recieve a government job, exempting the military and elected office

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Graduated income tax

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a method of taxation that taxes people depending on their income rate

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William "Boss" Tweed

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Baron that scammed NYC of 100 million dollars, and was arrested in Spain for his crimes

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Corruption

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bribery in the government so that the rich people pretty much ran the government