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6.1 Progressives
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| political machines | powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office |
| Gilded Age | A name for the late 1800s |
| Progressives | reformers who wanted to solve the problems of a fast-growing society in the late 1800s |
| muckrakers | journalists who exposed the corruption |
| Seventeenth Amendment | a law letting Americans vote directly for US. senators |
| civil service | the group of people whose job it is to carry out the work of the government |
| recall | a vote to remove an official before the end of his or her term |
| initiative | procedure allowing voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition |
| referendum | procedure permission voters to approve or reject a law |
| Robert M. La Follette | Wisconsin governor whose reforms became a model for other states |
| Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed | New York political machine |
| Ida B. Wells | African American journalist. published statistics about lynching |
| Direct Primary | members of a political party can indicate their preference for a candidate |
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