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| political machine | a powerful organization that influenced city and county politics in the late 1800s |
| Progressives | a group of reformers who worked to improve social and political problems in the late 1800s |
| muckrakers | a term coined for journalists who'raked up' and exposed corruption and problems of society |
| Seventeenth Amendment | (1913)a constitutional amendment allowing American voters to directly elect U.S.senators |
| recall | a vote to remove an official from office |
| initiative | a method to allowing voters to propose a new law if enough signatures are collected on a petition |
| referendum | a procedure that allows voters to aprove or reject a law already proposed or passed by government |
| Robert M.La Follete | He was elected to the U.S.House of Representatives in 1884 |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | a factory fire that killed 146 workers trapped in the building;led to new safety standard laws |
| worker's compensation laws | regulations guaranteeing a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job |
| capitalism | an economic system in which private bussiness run most industries |
| socialism | economic system in which the government owns and operates a country's means of production |
| William"Big Bill"Haywood | Its goal was to organize all workers into one large union |
| Industrial Workers of the World | (IWW)a union founded in 1905 by socialists and union dealers that included workers not welcomed in the AFL |
| Eighteenth Amendment | (1919)a constitutional amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States repealed in 1933 |
| National American Suffrage Association | (NAWSA)an organization founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1890 to obtain women's right to vote |
| Alice Paul | a founder of the National Woman's Party (NWP) |
| Nineteenth Amendment | (1920)a constitutional amendment that gave women the vote |
| Booker T. Washington | Born into slavery,he bacame a respected educator |
| Ida B.Wells | wrote articles about the unequal education available to African American children |
| W.E.B.Du Bois | took a direct approach to fighting injustice |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | (NAACP)an organization founded in 1909 by W.E.B.Du Bois and other reformers to bring atention to racial inequality |
| Theodore Roosevelt | He called this policy the Square Deal 1902 |
| Pure Food and Drug Act conservation | (1906) a law set regulatory standards for industries involved in preparing food |
| William Howard Taft | He favored business regulation and opposed socialism |
| Progressive Party | a short lived-politico party that attempted to institute social reforms |
| Woodrow Wilson | This amendment allows the federal government to impose direct taxes on citizens'incomes |
| Sixteen Amendment | (1913) an amendment to the Constitution that allows personal income to be taxed |
