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11 Cards in this Set
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Political Bosses
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Powerful politicans who control work the is done locally and demands payoffs from buisness-total power
Did some good things- CONTROL EVERYTHING IN A CITY |
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Boss Tweed
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Cheated the city out of more the 100 million- fled to spain and then caught-recogized from cartoons- died in jail
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Ida Tarbell
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muckraker- articles about unfair practices of big buissness, standard oil company and demanded for more controls on trusts then the Sherman AntiTrust Act
Worked for McClure's Magazine and wrote THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY. |
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Upton Sinclair
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muckraker-wrote the Jungle(based on meatpacking industry) led to demands for change and the Pure Food and Drug Act
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Wisconsin Idea
Wisconsin Way "Fighting Bob" LaFollette |
"The will of the people is the law of the land" (WI)
ex.Lowered railroad rates led to increase rail traffic better for owners and customers System of Colleges (WW) Govener then US senetor |
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Primary elections
(DIRECT DEMOCRACY) |
voters choose their party's canditate for the general election
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Initiative
(DIRECT DEMOCRACY) |
process by which voters can put a bill directly before the state legislature
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Referendum
(DIRECT DEMOCRACY) |
process by which people vote directly on a bill
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Recall
(DIRECT DEMOCRACY) |
process by which voters can remove an elected official from office
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Direct Democracy
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"We the people are in control"
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Graduated income tax
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tax on earnings that charges different rates for different income levels
The more you make the more you pay! work taxes |
