Progressive Era Political Movement

1. Progressive Era Political Movement By Brian Baglan, Mike Allo& Matt Hawley

2. Political Reforms • Many cities were controlled by corrupted businesses. • Business controlled government. • Tom Johnson, Sammuel Jones and Robert M. La Folette wanted voters to have power.

3. Law Passed • Recalls-voters can remove a person from office before their term ended • Home rule-a city is allowed to govern them self • Initiative laws- voters can pass laws with out need of legislative

4. 17th Amendment • Prior to this amendment only house of representatives were elected by the people • The belief that senators should be elected by the people gained widespread acceptance • Corrupt politicians elected senators that they could by support from • African Americans gained the right to vote • But whites usually prohibited their voting rights • They threatened lives • required literacy tests • Since the authorities couldn’t refuse their rights they found ways around

5. Direct Primary • Party members looking to run for office file petitions to have their names place on the ballot, thus allowing voters to directly vote for the candidate of their choice 2 types: • Closed Primary – limited to those who have registered as members of a party in whose primary they are voting • Open Primary – allows individuals to vote across party lines as in the regular election process • 1st presidential primary passed in Florida, 1901 • Oregon 1st to adopt preferential primary in 1910

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