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Progressive Era
Term | Definition |
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political machines | powerful organizations that influenced local governments |
progressives | reformers who wanted to solve the problems of a fast growing society |
muckrackers | journalists who exposed the corruption, scandal, and filth of society |
Seventeenth Amendment | a law letting Americans vote directly for U.S. senators |
recall | a vote to remove an official before the end of his/her term |
initiative | procedure allowing voters to propose a new law |
referendum | procedure permitting voters to approve or reject a law |
Robert M. La Follette | Wisconsin governor e=whose reforms became a model for other states |