Unit 7 Slurves
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Unit 7 Slurves Jennifer Lyon 4/8/13 1. The progressive movement contributed to a decline in party influence. This resulted in a decline in voter turnout. After 1912, the voter turnout never again reached 70%, when it had regularly been in the 80%s in the late nineteenth century. The power of the parties was replaced by interest groups. 2. Wilson was, in general, a trustbuster. He believed that big business was both unjust and inefficient. He thought that monopoly could not be regulated and thus had to be destroyed. This was the basis of his successful New Freedom program.