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Term | Definition |
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Patronage | giving government hobs to people who helped a candidate get elected. "spoils system" |
Pendleto Act | eliminate patronage-reduce |
Muckracker | journalist who searches for and exposes corruption |
17th amendment | direct election of Senators instead of state legislators deciding |
Progressivism | Movement that would return control of the government to the people, end corruption, and correct injustices. |
What was progressivism 4 main goals that were made to protect living and work conditions | 1: protect social warfare(prohibit child labor, limit women's work hours) 2: Moral improvements(promote prohibition) 3:Create economic reform(criticize "big business") 4:faster efficiency (increase productivity-assembly lines) |
women's suffrage | right to vote |
What did Theodore Roosevelt want to do for the people | "square deal" protect common people from big business and corruption |
Pure food and drug act | stop the sale of contaminated foods, medicine, and truthful labels |