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Roots of Progressive
progressive era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are Muckrakers? | a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society. |
| Direct primary | in which all party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election. |
| Initiative | permitted a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it. |
| referrendum | allowes citizens to vote on proposed laws directly without going to the legislature. |
| recall | provides voters an option to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term had expired. |
| Jacob Riis | published photographs and descriptions of the poverty, disease, and crime that afflicted many immigrant neighborhoods in new york city. |
| Robert M. La Follette | Wisconsin became a model of progressive reform. he attacked the way political parties ran their conventions. |