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| Bosses | Political leaders who controlled elections through bribery and payoffs |
| Political Machines | Organizations that guaranteed votes through legal and illegal methods |
| Mugwumps | Republicans who left their party to support the Democratic nominee who was supporting reform |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | Law that made people take a test to hold a government position (merit system) |
| Progressives | Reformers who wanted to change society |
| Muckrakers | Journalists who wrote about and exposed corruption in society |
| Direct Primary | Allowed voters to choose candidates instead of the party leaders |
| 17th Amendment | Allowed voters to vote directly for U.S. senators |
| Recall | Measure that allowed voters to sign a petition to allow voters to remove an elected official from office |
| Initiative | Measure that allowed voters to propose new laws if they were able to collect enough signatures |
| Referendum | Measure that allowed voters to approve or disapprove legislation that was already proposed by the state |
| Wisconsin Idea | Program of reform to decrease the influence of political machines in state governments |
| Ida Tarbell | Female Muckraker who wrote about improper business practices |
| Robert M. La Follette | He came up with the Wisconsin Idea to limit the power of political machines |
| Lincoln Steffens | Muckraker who exposed corruption in city governments |
| Lawrence Veiller | Progressive reformer who helped pass the New York tenement law to outlaw poorly lit and airless apartments |
| Samuel L . Jones | Mayor of Toledo, Ohio who attacked corruption and ran the government like a business |
| Susan Blow | Education reformer who opened the first public kindergarten |
| John Dewey | Educational philosopher who supported early childhood education "made school like home" |
| Joseph McCormack | Medical reformer who helped organize the AMA to support laws protecting public health |
| Socialsim | Economic system where the workers and government own the businesses |
| Capitalism | Economic system where the businesses are privately owned |
| Child Labor | One thing the labor unions and progressive reformers tried to ban |
| Higher Wages, Less hours, safer working conditions | Three things the labor unions were trying to improve for workers |
| Business owners | Who did the government support in most labor union court cases |
| Suffrage | The right to vote, something the progressive women were fighting for |
| 18th amendment | PRohibited the production and sale of alcohol |
| Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony | Two women who started a suffrage movement |
| Carrie Nation | Woman from Kansas who wanted alcohol prohibited and used an axe to smash bottles |
| Booker T. Washington | Black reformer who wanted to improve education to get more opportunities (Atlanta Compromise) |
| NAACP | Group that strived to fight segregation and discrimination for Blacks |
| National Urban League | Group that helped Blacks find jobs and homes in larger cities |
| Arbitration | Roosevelts idea to have formal meetings between workers and owners to resolve conflicts |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Prohibited the sale or transporting of food that was contaminated or mislabeled |
| Conservation | Roosevelts movement to preserve nature |
| Bull Moose Party | Progressive Party that supported Roosevelt for president |
| 16th amendment | This gave the government the power to tax your income |
| Federal Reserve Act | This formed a banking system |
| Clayton Anti-trust Act | This act strengthened laws against monopolies |
| Wilson | Democratic president who pushed for reforms against trusts and unfair business practices |
