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Progressive era
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| poll tax | Tax on african americans to prevent them from voting |
| Literacy test | To see if african americans can read of right |
| jim crow laws | laws in the south to inforce segregatoin |
| initiative | allows voters to propose laws |
| 19th amendment | gave women right to vote |
| W.E.B. Dubois | co-founder of NAACP |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that legalized segregation |
| Political Machine | powerful organizations that used legal but mostly illegal methods to control voters and cities. Not an elected official. |
| Progressives | reformers working to improve society and fix problems caused by industrialization in the late 1800s and early 1900s |
| muckrackers | a group of journalists, novelists and photographers |