Chapter 8 Vocab

 Something that is painted with gold paint so it looks nice but is cheap on the inside

 Powerful organizations whose only goal was to get their candidates elected to office through any means possible

 Political machine in NYC

 Leader of the political machines

 Boss of Tammany Hall

 Giving jobs to loyal party supporters even if they weren’t qualified

 Set up a merit system for people to get government jobs

 A group of ideas favoring social change

 Allowed voters to choose candidates for public office

 Allowed Americans to vote directly for Senators

 Allows voters to sign a petition asking for a special election to remove an elected official before his term is up

 Allows voters to vote on proposed laws

 Gives voters a chance to vote to accept or reject a law that has been proposed by the state

 A disaster in which 146 immigrant girls died when a fire broke out

 Banned mislabeled and contaminated food and drugs

 Believed that alcohol was evil and the cause of many problems so they wanted to ban it

 Banned the manufacture, sale or distribution of alcohol in the U.S.

 Refers to the period of time after the 19 th amendment made alcohol illegal until the 21 st amendment repealed it

 The right to vote

 Gave women the right to vote

 School founded to provide vocational training for black people

 Pronounced “N – double A – C – P”  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

 The protection of nature and its resources

 Created to supervise national parks and monuments