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- Initiative
- a procedure enabling a specified number of voters by petition to propose a law and secure its submission to the electorate or to the legislature for approval
- Seventeenth Amendment
- an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1913, providing for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years.
- Wisconsin Idea
- the boundaries of the University of Wisconsin should be the boundaries of the state, and that research conducted at the university should be applied to solve problems and improve health, quality of life, the environment and agriculture for all citizens of the state
- Recall
- the right or procedure by which an official may be removed by vote of the people
- Lincoln Steffens
- wanted to expose the pattern of corruption and the real villains, the supposedly respectable, honest businessmen whose bribes and greed fueled the whole system by muckracking
- Muckrakers
- to search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business
- Robert M. La Follette
- n advocate of farm relief and reform of the tax system
- Ida Tarbell
- a trustbuster, later coming to the defense of American business'
- Jacob Ries
- an immigrant who wrote and photographed urban poverty, and published his book "How the Other Half Lives"
- Referendum
- the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative
- Progressives
- one believing in moderate political change and especially social improvement by governmental action