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lesson 1

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Gilded Age   highlights the inequality between wealthy business owners who profited from the industrial revolution and workers who often labored in under terrible conditions for little pay  
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Political Machines   powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates in office, stuffed ballot boxes, payed people to vote for their candidates,bribed voter counters  
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Bosses   ran political machines  
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Tammany Hall   most notorious political machine  
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William Marcy Tweed   boss of Tammany Hall  
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Members of congress   took bribes to allowed the union Pacific railway to receive government funds  
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Thomas Jefferson   1st to reward supporters with jobs  
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Rutherford B. Hayes   made minor reforms such as firing a powerful member of the New York republican political machine  
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James A. Garfield   attempted reforms/ was shot twice  
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Charles Guiteau   shot Garfield  
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Chester A. Arthur   became president after Garfield was shot / backed the pendleton act  
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Progressives   reformers that were also working to improve society in the late 1800s  
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Muckrakers   journalists that vividly described problems in US society  
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McClure's Mazazine   exposed corruption in city governments  
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Lincoln Steffens   wrote the McClure's Magazines  
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Ida B. Tarbell   wrote articles criticizing the unfair business practices of the standard oil company  
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Upton Saintclair   wrote the Jungle that exposed unsanitary practices in the meat processing industry  
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Susan Blow   opened 1st american public kindergarten in St. Louis in 1873  
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John Dewey   key supporter of early childhood educations  
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Joseph McCormack   worked with the american medical association and brought local medical organizations in 1901  
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Jacob Riis   wrote how the other half lives  
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17th Amendment   allowed Americans to vote for US senators/ passed in 1913  
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Direct Primary   voters choose canadietes for public office directly / favored by reformers  
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Recall   remove official from term early  
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Initiative   allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures for a petition  
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Referendum   permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or past by a government body  
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Robert M La Folette   decreased the power of politcal machines and use university professoes and other experts to help write new laws and work in state agencies /WI republican govenor  
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Spoils System   practice of giving jobs to the winning candidates' suporters  
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Pendleton Civil Service Act   set up a merit system for awarding federal jobs  
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