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Reform Test Review
Social Studies 8- Gambitta/Root
Term | Definition |
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Spoils System | The system where one gets a government job based on WHO one knows. |
Merit System | The system where one gets a government job based on WHAT one knows. |
Civil Service | Government jobs. Not military or elected positions. |
Civil Service Commission | Government organization created to fill government jobs with qualified people. Created to end the spoils system. |
Civil Service Exam | Test to determine the person most qualified for a government job. |
muckraker | investigative reporters who exposed corruption |
Jacob Riis | Exposed corruption in city slums (tenements) and the poor in NYC. Wrote the book, How the Other Half Lives. |
Upton Sinclair | Exposed corruption in the meatpacking industry. Wrote the book, The Jungle. |
Thomas Nast | Exposed corruption of Boss Tweed in NYC with his political cartoons. |
What was the result of Jabob Riis' book? | Reform in city slums. |
Ida Tarbell | Exposed unfair business practices oil industry and John D. Rockefeller. |
Susan B. Anthony | Suffragist. Fought for women's right to vote. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Suffragist. Fought for women's right to vote. |
suffragist | someone who fights for the right to vote |
19th Amendment | Passed by Congress in 1920. Gives women the right to vote |
18th Amendment | Passsed by Congress in 1917. Made alcohol illegal. This is known as Prohibition. |
Seneca Falls, NY | Birthplace of the women's rights movement. |
Temperance Movement | Movement to try to stop the sale and consumption of alcohol. Alcohol was a threat to families and society. |
Prohibition | Known as the Noble Experiment. Lasted from 1920-1933 |
21st Amendment | Repeals the 18th Amendment. Allows for the sale and consumption of alcohol. |
What was the result of Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle? | Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was passed into law. |
Nellie Bly | undercover investigative reporter who exposed the unfair treatment of the mentally ill. |
Jane Addams | opened the Hull House, the first settlement house, to improve the lives of the poor and immigrants. |
Lewis Hine | Exposed unfair child labor in the U.S by his pictures. |
What was the result of Lewis Hine's child labor pictures? | Child labor laws and education laws were passed to protect children. |
Boss Tweed | One of the most corrupt men in the history of NYC |
One goal of the progressive reformers was to: | correct injustices in American society |
Prohibition | Time period when alcohol was illegal |
Booker T. Washington | Founded the Tuskegee Institute |
Pure Food and Drug Act | Law that required food and drug makers to list all ingredients in foods and medicines. |