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8 Cards in this Set
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Political Machines |
Organizations that used legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office |
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Progressives |
People who worked to improve society in the late 1800's |
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Muckrakers |
Journalists who wrote stories to expose problems in the U.S. |
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Seventeenth Amendment |
Allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators |
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Recall |
To remove and official before the end of his term |
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Initiative |
A process which 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 |
Helped to decrease the power of political machines and used university professors and other experts to help write new laws and work in state agencies |
