Chapter 21
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| Reform | Movements that set were out to change government corruption and
Abolish slavery.
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| Corruption | When someone benefits from doing wrong?
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| Political Machines | A powerful organizations that used Legal & Illegal methods to get their candidates Elected to public office in the late 1800.
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| progressives | a group of reformers who worked to improve social and political problems in the late 1800s.
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| Muckrakers | a term coined for journalists who "raked up"and exposed corruption and problems of society.( They worked to eliminate problems like crime, disease, and poverty)
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| William Marcy Tweed | Was the boss of Tammy Hall and May have stolen up to $200 million from the city.
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| Tammany Hall | Was one of the most notorius political machines that awareded its supporters about 12,000 jobs.
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| spoils system | This was the practice of giving jobs to the winning candidates supporters.
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| National American Woman Suffrage Association | was founded in 1890 to promote the cause of women's suffrage.
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| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | And similar accidents led to passage of laws improving factory safety standars.
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| Workers Compensation Law | Which guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.
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| Eighteenth Amendment | a constitutional amendment that outlawed the productionvand sale of alcholic beverages in the United States;repealed in 1933.
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| Nineteenth Admentment | a constitutional amendment that gave women the vote.
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| Theodore Roosevelt | took office.
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| Pure Food and Drug Act | This law prohibited the manufacture,sale,and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.
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| Alice Paul | founded what would become the Nationl Woman's Party {NWP}.
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| Pendleton Civil Service Act | More than 10percent of governments aplicants had to pass an exam before they could be hired.
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| What were some examples of political corruption and what was done to correct corruption? | For exmaple,members of political machines stuffed ballot boxes with exrta votes for their candidates.
To stop corrutpoin reformers demeand that only qualified people get governments jobs.
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| Give three examples of muckrakers reform successes. | 1. to help the urban poor by started settlement houses.
2.The creation of new professions like city planners and civiengineering.
3.Improveing eduaction to lead to a better society.
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| What was the consequence of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire? | It caused the death of 146 workers.This led to laws improving factory safety standards.
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| Why was the Pure Food and Drug Act created? | This law prohibited the manufacture,sale,and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.
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| Urban reform created new professions. What were some of these professions and describe the profession? | 1. Cities planning-hepled design safe building codes and opened new public parks.
2. Civil engineers-improve transportaion by paving streets and building bridges.
3.Sanitation engineers tried to slove problems with pollution, waste disposal, impure wate
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| What was the subject of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle? What was the result of this book being published? | THe jungle was about unsanitary practies in the meat processing industry.Because of the book the pure food and drug was it.
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| Why did many women become active in reform? | They became active in reform becuase of new educational opportunities also the right to vote.
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| What was the temperance movement? | This was the act of avoiding alcohol use because it was thought to increasefamily violence and crime.
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| Why did many people at this time worry about women voting? | They are worry about woman voters because they thought they would support minimum wage and child labor laws.
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| How did muckrakers fight crime, poverty, and disease? | They wrote about these issues so that people would know what was happening,which pressured politicians to back reform.
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