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These journalists exposed the filth of society.
Who are muckrakers?
This muckraker wrote a book that exposed the filth of the meat packing industry.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
A group that accepted bribes in exchange for votes.
What is a political machine?
This group seeks to improve working conditions for all types of employees.
What is a labor union?
These workers went on strike outside their steel mill to protest unsafe working conditions and were assaulted by the Pinkertons.
Who were the Homestead Workers?
The voting process to remove a state official.
What is a recall?
This amendment gave all American women aged 21 and over the right to vote.
What was the 19th Amendment?
This suffragist tried to vote in a New York election in. 1872 but was caught, arrested and sent to jail.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
The ability to vote privately without fear or coercion.
What is a secret ballot?
An extreme tactic used by protesting workers where they don't work for a period of time.
What is striking?
This suffragist toured the country to grow support for the suffrage movement and was tortured while she was imprisoned for "obstructing traffic."
Who was Alice Paul?
This amendment allowed voters to elect their state's senators directly every 6 years.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Jacob Riis exposed this problem in American cities.
What is overcrowding?
Who was Ida B. Wells?
The most notorious political machine controlled large parts of New York City.
What was the Tweed Hall Ring?
The snow planet the rebel base is located on in the beginning of Star Wars Episode V: "The Empire Strikes Back."
Where is Hoth?