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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
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