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8 Cards in this Set
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Political machines |
Powerful organizations that I used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office |
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Progressives |
Were also working to improve society in the late 1800s by government intervention |
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Muckrakers |
Journalists who "raked up" and exposed the muck, filth, of society |
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Seventeenth Amendment |
which allowed Americans to vote directly for US senators |
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Recall |
remove |
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initiative |
A procedure allowed voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition |
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Referendum |
Another measure permited voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by government body |
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Pendleton |
10% job applicant |
