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Patronage the practice of awarding government jobs to political supporters
Spoils system practice of rewarding supporters with government jobs
Merit ability
Civil service commission government agency created by the Pendleton Act of 1883
Interstate commerce act act signed in 1887 that forbade pools and rebates
Interstate commerce commission government agency organized to oversee railroad commerce
Sherman Antitrust Act an 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States
Political bosses powerful politician who controls work done locally and demands payoffs from businesses
Muckrakers journalist who exposed corruption and other problems of the late 1800s and early 1900s name taken from fictional character in John Bunyan’s book: Pilgrim’s Progress
Progressives reformer in the late 1800s and early 1900s who wanted to improve American life
Public interest the good of the people
Ida Tarbell a muckraker (1857-1944)
Primary election in which voters choose their party’s candidate for the general election
Initiative process by which voters cab out a bill directly before the state legislature
Referendum process by which people vote directly on a bill
Recall process by which voters can remove an elected official from office
16th Amendment an amendment that gave Congress the power to pass an income tax
17th Amendment an amendment that allowed the direct election of senators
Theodore Roosevelt the Progressive vice president to William McKinley who became president after McKinley was assassinated
Trustbuster person who wanted to destroy all trusts
Square Deal Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign promise that all groups would have an equal opportunity to succeed
Conservation protection of natural resources
William H. Taft Roosevelt’s Secretary of War and president
Bull Moose Party Progressive Republicans who supported Theodore Roosevelt during the election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson Democratic and Progressive president
Federal Trade Commission government agency created in 1914 to ensure fair competition
Clayton Antitrust Act 1914, banned certain business practices and stopped antitrust laws from being used against unions
Suffrage the right to vote
Seneca Falls Convention an 1848 meeting at which leaders of the women’s rights movement called for equal right for women
Carrie Chapman Catt a school principal and reporter who became a leader of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Alice Paul a suffragist who had fought for women’s rights in Britain and then picketed the White House
19th Amendment a 1919 amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gives women the right to vote
WCTU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union) group organized in 1874 that worked to ban the sale of liquor in the U.S.
Frances Willard president of the WCTU
Carrie Nation a radical temperance supporter whose husband died from heavy drinking
18th Amendment a 1917 amendment to the U.S. Constitution that made it illegal to sell alcoholic drinks
Jacob Riis Depicted the misery of NYC slums in How the Other Half Lives in 1890
Ida Tarbell Business practices of SO in magazine articles, 1904
Lincoln Steffens Shame of the Cities in 1904
Upton Sinclair The Jungle in 1906
Lewis Hins Photographed child labor
The Jungle Revealed unsanitary conditions and lives of workers of the meat industry
Bubbly Creek South Fork of the Chicago River became a notorious open sewer for the Chicago Stock Yards. The bubbles were caused by decaying animal carcasses hurled into the stream. Bubbly Creek’s decaying riverbed continues to bubble to this day.
William McKinley Leads to victory in Spanish-American war Strong economy (high tariff) Made him elected and popular
Theodore Roosevelt Party hoped to bury him as VP of William McKinley Became president after assassination 1901-1908
William H. Taft High tariff which angers Progressives 1908-1912
Election of 1912 Roosevelt- 4 million McKinley- 3.5 million Wilson- 6.5 million Roosevelt and McKinley split Republican vote

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  1. Carrie Chapman Catt → a school principal and reporter who became a leader of the National Woman Suffrage Association - 7 misses
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