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Chapter 19s1
19 cards·by anaesmith
Primary
Party candidates chosen by voters, not party lenderes
Recall
People vote to remove elected offical
Initative
voters ask legislature to vote on a bill they made up
Referendum
Voters vote directly for a bill
16th Amendment
Graduated income tax
17th Amendment
State senators chosen by voters
Spoils Systems
Give something, get something in return
Muckrakers
Journalists who exposed "Dirt" on officials and businesses
Ida Tarbell
Trusts and big business
Jacob Riis
Photos of slum life
Upton Sinclair
Meatpacking Industry
What did the reforms do?
Eliminate the Spoils Systems
Pendleton Act
Set up Civil Service Commission
Who made the Interstate Commerce Act?
G. Cleveland
Interstate Commerce Act
1887, No more rebates controlled how RR's ran
Who made the Sherman Antitrust Act?
B. Harrison
Sherman Antitrust Act
1890, Hard to enforce, tried to increase competition
Progressiveness
Gave power to vote
What did R. LAFollette do?
Appoint commissions, not bosses to lower corruption