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Chapter 21
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reform | Movements that set were out to change government corruption and Abolish slavery. |
| Corruption | When someone benefits from doing wrong? |
| Political Machines | A powerful organizations that used Legal & Illegal methods to get their candidates Elected to public office in the late 1800. |
| progressives | a group of reformers who worked to improve social and political problems in the late 1800s. |
| Muckrakers | a term coined for journalists who "raked up"and exposed corruption and problems of society.( They worked to eliminate problems like crime, disease, and poverty) |
| William Marcy Tweed | Was the boss of Tammy Hall and May have stolen up to $200 million from the city. |
| Tammany Hall | Was one of the most notorius political machines that awareded its supporters about 12,000 jobs. |
| spoils system | This was the practice of giving jobs to the winning candidates supporters. |
| National American Woman Suffrage Association | was founded in 1890 to promote the cause of women's suffrage. |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | And similar accidents led to passage of laws improving factory safety standars. |
| Workers Compensation Law | Which guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job. |
| Eighteenth Amendment | a constitutional amendment that outlawed the productionvand sale of alcholic beverages in the United States;repealed in 1933. |
| Nineteenth Admentment | a constitutional amendment that gave women the vote. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | took office. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | This law prohibited the manufacture,sale,and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs. |
| Alice Paul | founded what would become the Nationl Woman's Party {NWP}. |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | More than 10percent of governments aplicants had to pass an exam before they could be hired. |
| What were some examples of political corruption and what was done to correct corruption? | For exmaple,members of political machines stuffed ballot boxes with exrta votes for their candidates. To stop corrutpoin reformers demeand that only qualified people get governments jobs. |
| Give three examples of muckrakers reform successes. | 1. to help the urban poor by started settlement houses. 2.The creation of new professions like city planners and civiengineering. 3.Improveing eduaction to lead to a better society. |
| What was the consequence of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire? | It caused the death of 146 workers.This led to laws improving factory safety standards. |
| Why was the Pure Food and Drug Act created? | This law prohibited the manufacture,sale,and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs. |
| Urban reform created new professions. What were some of these professions and describe the profession? | 1. Cities planning-hepled design safe building codes and opened new public parks. 2. Civil engineers-improve transportaion by paving streets and building bridges. 3.Sanitation engineers tried to slove problems with pollution, waste disposal, impure wate |
| What was the subject of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle? What was the result of this book being published? | THe jungle was about unsanitary practies in the meat processing industry.Because of the book the pure food and drug was it. |
| Why did many women become active in reform? | They became active in reform becuase of new educational opportunities also the right to vote. |
| What was the temperance movement? | This was the act of avoiding alcohol use because it was thought to increasefamily violence and crime. |
| Why did many people at this time worry about women voting? | They are worry about woman voters because they thought they would support minimum wage and child labor laws. |
| How did muckrakers fight crime, poverty, and disease? | They wrote about these issues so that people would know what was happening,which pressured politicians to back reform. |
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