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Vocabulary Practice

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• 18th Amendment

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• 1919-
• Made the
• manufacture and
• sale of alcoholic
• beverages illegal.

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• TemperanceMovement

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• People who
• organized in
• order to create a
• ban on alcohol.
• -Carry Nation
• -Francis Willard
• -Womens Christian Temperance Union

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• 19thAmendment

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• 1920-
• Guaranteed the
• right to vote
• regardless of sex
• (women can vote)

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• Jane
• Addams

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• Founder of Hull House in Chicago, a settlement
  house for the poor.

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• Reform

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• To change or improve

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• Progressives

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• Nickname for people who worked for change during
  the Progressive Movement

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• Urbanization

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• The movement of people from rural areas (like the
  country) to cities

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• Settlement
• House

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• Building in a poor or ethnic neighborhood that
  offered services, education, and activities.

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• Hull House

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• Settlement House in Chicago opened by Jane Addams

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• Civil Service Reform

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• Changed in govt hiring process that focused on
  merit rather than connections.

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• Muckraker

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• Journalists who tried to improve society through
  their investigative reporting and photography.
  Exposed health conditions, corruption in
  government, and social problems.

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• Conservation

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• The preservation of natural resources

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• The Jungle

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• Book by Upton Sinclair which exposed the abuses
  of the meat packing industry

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• MeatInspectionAct

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• 1906 Law passed as a result of Upton Sinclairs
  novel, The Jungle. Authorized the inspection of
  all meat products shipped in interstate commerce
  (from state to state)

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• NAACP

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• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People

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• ProgressiveMovement

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• Time of reform, generally centered in urban areas.

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• Prohibition

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• The ban on alcoholic beverages in the U.S. after
  the 18th Amendment

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• Pure Food and Drug Act

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• 1906 Law-
• Forbidding the manufacture and sale of
  dishonestly labeled product All products must
  have ingredients listed

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• Sherman Antitrust Act

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• 1890 Law
• Prohibited monopolies

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• Interstate Commerce Act

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• Law that monitored railroads in order to restrict
  unfair business practices

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• Social
• Activist

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• Individuals who protest and defend individual
  rights.
• Ex. Jane Addams

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• Square
• Deal

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• President Theodore Roosevelts idea that all
  people should have an opportunity to succeed in
  the U.S.

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• Tenement

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• Overcrowded apartment building in a city slum

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• Suffrage

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• The right to vote

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• Political Bosses

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• Powerful politicians who took control of big
  cities for . They were corrupt (like Boss Tweed)

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• Civil Service Commision

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• Group that sets up exams (civil service exams)
  that applicants for federal jobs must take. This
  is a fair way of filling government positions.