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| Political machines | political organizations that used legal and illegal methods to ensure that their candidates won elections |
| Bosses | corrupt political leaders who used bribery and favors to win votes and elections |
| progressives | reformers who worked to improve social and political problems, beginning in the late 1800s |
| muckrakers | journalists who wrote about corruption in business and politics in order to bring about reform |
| direct primary | method of allowing voters to choose their own candidates for office |
| Seventeenth Amendment | allowed Americans to vote directly for US Senators instead of state legislators |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | an accident in a clothing factory where 146 women died because their exit doors were locked |
| Susan B. Anthony | a suffragist who fought for the right to vote by founding NAWSA |
| WCTU | Woman’s Christian Temperance Union; an organization that united women from various backgrounds in the fight against alcohol abuse |
| Eighteenth Amendment | banned the manufacture, sale, or distribution of alcohol in the US |
| National American Woman Suffrage Association | an organization with the goal to get women the right to vote |
| Nineteenth Amendment | gave women the right to vote in the US |
| Booker T. Washington | an African American leader who believed in equality through vocational education and accepted social separation |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | an African American leader who believed in full political, civil, and social rights for all African Americans |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; an organization formed to end discrimination and fight for equal rights |
