S.S chptr 21
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- muckrakers
- journalists that exposed the muck, or filth of society
- triangle shirtwaist fire
- led to the passage of laws improving factory safety standards
- progressives
- worked to improve society in late 1800's
- nawsa
- elizabeth cady stanton
- capitalism
- an economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods
- eighteenth amendment
- banned production, sale and transport of alcohol in the U.S
- robert m. la follette
- decreased the power of political machines,wisconsins republican governor
- political machines
- powerful organazations that used legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office
- industrial workers of the world
- its goal was to organize all workers into one large union that would overthrow capitalism
- referendum
- permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a gov. body
- worker's compensation laws
- guarenteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job
- national american woman suffrage association
- promoted the cause of woman's suffrage
- nawsa
- susan b anthony
- alice paul
- founded the national womans party
- initiative
- procedure that allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition
- socialism
- a system in which the gov. owns and operates a country's means of production
- seventeenth amendment
- allowed americans to vote directly for U.S senators
- william big bill haywood
- a socialist union called the industrial workers of the world
- recall
- to remove an official before the end of his term