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| company bought off senators in order for them not to investigate the company; was doing this openly |
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| big political machines that provided services to the immigrants in order to get them to vote their way; gave away money and jobs; in urban areas; huge webs of corruptions |
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| Laus Teed was the leader; in New York city; ran politics for about 20 to 30 years |
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| George washington Plunkitt |
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| wrote about what was going on at Tammany Hall; told everything that went on; was frank; makes no excuses or apologizes |
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| Journalists that wrote about what was going on; were important in spreading the fear and concern to the middle, white class of America |
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| one of the most famous muckrakers; wrote an exposey about Rockefeller; laid out what had been to corrupt economic and political practices; underhand maneuvers; he bought off politicians so that his agenda was followed; she illustrated the unsettled feelings |
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| Muckraker; focused on the political bosses; shamed the cities; went from city to city and wrote about the political bosses |
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| Initiative and Referendum |
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| was a progressive from the mid-west; elected as governor and US senate; ran unsuccessfully for president |
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| basically the embodiment of the progressive movement; as business gets bigger the government must to; did not think that we should break up business |
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| National Civic Federation |
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| classical expression of corporate liberalism; platform of TR; government will work with the big companies in the best interest of the people; leaves out immigrants, women (not political process), and any person not be part of the political process |
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