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spoils system
the widespread award of public jobs to political jobs to political supporters after an electoral victory
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patronage
the power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters; also the jobs and favors themselves
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grandfather clause
a law permitting citizens to register as voters only if their grandfathers had been eligible to vote
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direct primary
the selection of party candidates by a popular vote rather than by the party convention
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Recall
a law that permits voters to remove an elected official from his post and elect a replacement if they are dissatisfied with their performance
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Referendum
a direct vote on whether or not t adopt a particular law or government policy
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Voluntarism
the view that citizens should themselves improve their lives, rather than rely on the efforts of government
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Syndicalists
members of a revolutionary movement that, like socialists, believed in the Marxist principle of class struggle and advocated the organization of society on the basis of industrial unionism
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General strike
a strike that draws in all the workers in a society, with the intention of shutting the entire system down
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Populism
late 19th century political movement of farmers, most notably in the West and South, that identified laissez-faire capitalism (in which the gov't has limited involvement) and big business as responsible for the worsening economic circumstances in rural America
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Industrial union
a group of workers in a single industry (auto, mining, railroad) organized into a single association, regardless of skill, rather than into separate craft-based associations
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Labor movement
the efforts of workers as a group, often as a union, trying to improve their economic position and general welfare
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labor theory of value
the belief that the price of a product should reflect the work that went into making it and should be paid mostly to the person who produced it
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yellow journalism
newspapers that specialize in sensationalistic reporting
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Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt's (1901-1909) domestic reform program that called for gov't control of corporate abuses
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Progressivism
a wide-ranging 20th century reform movement that advocated gov't activism to mitigate the problems created by urban industrialism
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Social Purity Movement
progressive reform movement of the late 19th century that aimed to rid cities of vice, particularly prostitution
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National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
suffrage organization created in 1890 by the union of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association
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National Woman's Party
political party originally formed as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1913; fought for equal rights amendment in the US Constitution
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
a coalition of blacks and whites who sought legal and political rights for African Americans through the courts
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Niagara movement
a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by William Monroe Trotter and W.E.B. Dubois that called for universal male suffrage, civil rights, and leadership by a black intellectual elite; helped build the NAACP
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