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Reform

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To change for the better

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progressivism

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Fixing society with government change

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Tenements

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Slum apartments in cities

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Political Corruption/graph

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Using a position of power to benefit yourself or your friends

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populism

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More power to ordinary people

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Americanization

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Immigrants learning to be ¨American¨

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Public Education

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Government-run schools

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Environmental Regulations

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laws about how environments treated

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Conservation

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Protecting and preserving the environment

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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16th amendment

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The federal government can collect income tax

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17th amendment

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Senators are directly elected by the people of their state, rather than being appointed by the state government.

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18th amendment

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Prohibition, Banned alcohol everywhere in u.s.

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19th amendment

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Gave women the right to vote

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Muckrakers

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Journalists who exposed wrongdoing

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Theodore Roosevelt

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progressive president: fought for conservation

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Federal Reserve System

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Central Bank created to protect banks from failing

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