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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 canidates elected to public office |
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Progressives |
a group of reformers working to improve society in the late 1800s |
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Muckrakers |
Journalists that "raked up" and exposed muck, or filth, in society. |
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Seventeenth Amendment |
Allowed Americans to directly vote for U.S senators |
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Recall |
Remove |
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Initiative |
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 Folette |
Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr. was an American Republican politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was also a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. Decreased power of political machines and helped erite new laws.
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