Chapter 21 Section 1
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| show | The Gilded Age was a period of time when inequality between wealthy business owners and workers who worked in terrible conditions was showed.
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| show | Political machines were powerful organizations that used illegal and legal methods to get their candidates votes.
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| show | They would stuff ballot boxes, pay voters and bribe them.
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| Who led the political machines? | show 🗑
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| Give some examples of how the bosses would get votes for the candidates. | show 🗑
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| Who did political machines get most of their support from? | show 🗑
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| What was Tammany Hall? | show 🗑
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| show | They rewarded them with over 12,000 jobs.
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| show | William Marcy Tweed.
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| What did Americans begin to think of President Grant? Why? | show 🗑
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| What was the Whiskey Ring Scandal? | show 🗑
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| What was the Union Pacific Way Scandal? | show 🗑
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| What did the scandals lead to? | show 🗑
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| What was the spoils system? | show 🗑
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| show | They wanted to end it and they made it so that only qualified people could get government jobs.
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| How did President Rutherford B. Hayes help reform? | show 🗑
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| show | President James A. Garfield
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| show | He was a president who passed the Pendleton Civil Service Act which set up a merit system for awarding federal jobs.
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| show | They were a group of reformers in the late 1800s who were working to improve society.
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| show | Crime, poverty, disease, and corruption.
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| show | Education and better working conditions.
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| show | They were journalists that exposed the filthy things about the society.
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| What did muckrakers write about? | show 🗑
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| show | He was a muckraker who exposed corruption in city government.
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| show | She was a muckraker who wrote articles about the unfair business practices of the Standard Oil Company.
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| Who was Upton Sinclair and what did he write about? | show 🗑
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| show | Voters who pressured politicians to reform.
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| show | New professions, education
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| What were some of the new professions? | show 🗑
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| show | Laws were created that required children to go to kindergarten to learn basic skills.
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| Who was Philosopher John Dewey? | show 🗑
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| What was the problem with medical education? What was the solution? | show 🗑
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| show | Reforming gov practices replacing corrupt ballots pressure states to have secret ballots (voter privacy)
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| show | Allowed Americans to vote for Senators directly
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| show | Voters choose candidate for party instead of party leaders choosing
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| show | Citizens can remove politican from office by signing petition = recall votes many recall votes = removal from office
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| show | Allow voters to propose new law by getting petition signed
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| Referendum: | show 🗑
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| show | Council-manager: voters elect city council -> council elects manager for city Commission: elected officials each have a duty in city ex. transportation
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| Who was Robert La Follette? | show 🗑
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