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100
The growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
100
Established full-time professional fire departments.
What is fire?
100
Western Kentucky University
What are the Hilltoppers?
100
The city that had the first full-time police force.
What is New York City?
100
A law that established a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to government jobs by means of the merit system.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
200
An office holder’s power to appoint people, usually those who have helped him or her get elected, to positions in government.
What is patronage?
200
Organized full-time, salaried police forces.
What is crime?
200
University of North Carolina
What are the Tar Heels?
200
What political machines got in return for helping the immigrants.
What is votes?
200
The nonmilitary branches of government.
What is Civil Service?
300
The illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
What is graft?
300
Developed sewer lines and created sanitation departments.
What is Sanitation?
300
University of Cincinnati
What are the Bearcats?
300
Illegal payments for service that many corrupt political leaders took during this time period
What are kickbacks?
300
An office holder’s power to appoint people, usually those who have helped him or her get elected, to positions in government.
What is patronage?
400
An agreement by the government of Japan to limit Japanese emigration to the United States.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
400
Introduced chlorination and filtration.
What is water?
400
University of West Virginia
What are Mountaineers?
400
The reason that cartoons were more effective than written stories in exposing corruption.
What is that many people couldn't read?
400
A law that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
Led the Tweed Ring, a group of corrupt politicians, in defrauding New York City.
Who is Boss Tweed?
500
Passed laws that set minimum standards for plumbing and ventilation in apartments.
What is housing?
500
Southern Methodist University
What are the Mustangs?
500
The three things that political machines provided for immigrants.
What are jobs, housing, and naturalization?
500
Influential member of the Social Gospel Movement, who founded Chicago’s Hull House in 1889.
Who is Jane Addams?
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