Industrial Revolution

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Secret ballot – Progressives wanted people to vote without intimidation.

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Political Reforms

Recall – special election to get rid of a politician.

Auhnold is governor of CA because of a recall election.

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Political reform

Progressives reformed local governments by allowing people to introduce bills (initiative). A referendum is a vote on that initiative.

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Political reform

The Seventeenth Amendment put more power into the peoples’ hands. It allowed for the direct election of US Senators. Before, state legislators would choose.

Here are the Texas

Senators:

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Political reform

Progressives wanted big business out of politics.

Political machines controlled the political parties.

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Political Reform

One famous political machine was the Tammany Ring of NYC.

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Political machines weren’t all bad. They provided jobs to immigrants and other services

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Economic Reform

The Sixteenth Amendment allows for a graduated income tax. That means the rich pay a higher percentage than poor people.

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Women’s suffrage

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Suffragists

We hold these truths to be self evident that all men and women are created

equal.

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Suffragists

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the grandmother of the movement

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Women all over the USA and Britain paraded and protested for suffrage.

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Women’s suffrage

Stanton and Susan B. Anthony fought for women’s rights.

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