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Political machines |
Powerful organization that used both legal and illegal methods to get to their candidates elected to the public office |
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Progressive |
We're also working to improve society in the late 1800s |
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Muckrakers |
Journalists were nicknamed muckrakers because they raked up and exposed he much or filth of society |
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Seventeenth amendment |
Which allowed Americans to vote directly for us senators |
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Recall |
Or remove |
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Initiative |
Allowed all 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 passes by government body |
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Robert m la follette |
Decreased power of political machines and used university professors made available on how politicians voted |
