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vocab and other s.s
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A journalist that uncovered the truth about corruption in America in the early 1900s | muckraker |
| Upton Sinclair's novel describing the horrors of the meatpacking plants | The Jungle |
| Laws that segregated schools,trains,parks,and other public places | Jim Crow Laws |
| Allowed U.S senators to vote in their state | 17th Amendment |
| Prohibited the selling of alchohole | 18th Amendment |
| Women suffarage | 19th Amendment |
| A change | A change |
| A person who actively favors or strives for progress toward better conditions | Progressive |
| The enforcement of laws that control conduct or practices | Regulation |
| A political organization that controls enough votes to control its community | Political machine |
| The effort to protect something valuable from being destroyed or used up | conservation |
| The right to vote | Suffarage |
| steel | Andrew Carnegie |
| oil | J.D Rockfellar |
| president | Theodore Rosevelt |
| protect children and workers rights | Mother Jones |
| conservation | John Muir |