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8 Cards in this Set
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Political machines |
Powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office |
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Progressives |
Working to improve society in the late 1800s |
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Muckrakers |
"Raked Up" and exposed muck or filth of society |
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Seventeenth Amendment |
Allowed Americans to vote directly for US Senators |
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Recall |
Or remove |
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Initiative |
Procedure that allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition |
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Referendum |
Permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a government body |
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Robert M. la Follette |
Republican governor of Wisconsin deceased power of political machines used university professors and other experts to help write new laws and work in state agencies made available public info on how politicians voted |
