1. Progressive Era
Business, great and small, had sullied politics: working with powerful bosses, it had won favors and privileges in return for its subsidies to corrupt machines. ... The new party attacked the relationship of corrupt business and corrupt politics and sought to eliminate it. ... Moreover, the Seventeenth Amendment, a result of the movement, also helped assuage the problem of corrupt politicians by mandating the direct popular election of senators. ... Further, taxes, by giving the government more money and power, also increased the government's ability to provide social welfare programs. ....
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