US History: Ch 8 Vocabulary
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- tenement
- apartment building found in many cities around the nation
- suburbs
- residential neighborhoods
- urbanization
- the growth of cities
- immigrants
- people from other countries coming to America to look for jobs
- political machine
- well organized political organization that controls election results by awarding jobs and other favors in exchange for votes
- trust
- a legal combonation of companies brought together to gain control of an industry and reduce competition
- progressives
- reformers who dominated the political landscape of the early 1900s
- settlement houses
- institutions that provided educational and social services to poor people
- muckraker
- a writer whose investigative articles or books attacked abuses such as child labor or corruption
- social gospel movement
- a movement emphasizing the application of Christian principles to social problems
- direct primary
- an election open to all votes within the party
- initiative
- allowed all citizens to introduce a bill into the legislative and required members to take a vote on it
- referendum
- established a procedure by which voters cast ballots for or against proposed laws
- recall
- gave citizens a chance to remove an elected official from office before the person's term ended