more social studies! Flashcards
What is urbanization?
The growth of cities and the movement of the population from farms to cities.
What are political machines?
Groups of corrupt people who took control of city governments.
What is patronage?
Giving government jobs to loyal political supporters.
Who are muckrakers?
Investigative journalists who exposed the problems of society to the public.
What is suffrage?
The right to vote.
What did the 19th Amendment accomplish?
Granted women the right to vote.
What is a trustbuster?
Roosevelt’s nickname for breaking up the bad trusts.
What is Prohibition?
The legal act of prohibiting the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of liquor.
What did the Pendleton Act establish?
The Civil Service Commission and set up civil service exams.
What is a settlement house?
A community center that offered services for the poor.
What did the 18th Amendment prohibit?
The manufacturing, sale, and transportation of liquor.
What did the 17th Amendment allow?
Voters to directly elect Senators.
What is the temperance movement?
An effort by many people to limit drinking in the United States.
What are tenements?
Small apartments where the poor people of the cities lived.
