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Social Studies Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Commute | To travel back and forth regularly |
Slum | A rundown neighborhood |
Tenement | A rundown building |
Cartogram | A map that shows information by changing the size of places |
Progressives | People who believed in using new and creative ideas for social progress and change |
Muckraker | A journalist who wrote about dangerous working conditions or dishonest businesses and politicians |
Suffrage | The right to vote |
Prohibition | Laws that would ban the production and sale of alcohol |
Patronage | A system in which people get political jobs because they had donated money or were friends with politicians |
Initiative | The right of citizens to place an issue on a ballot for a direct vote |
Referendum | A direct vote on a proposed law |