Chapter 6-- Set 1
Terms
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- muckrakers
- journalists who exposed corruption in society
- Progressives
- reformers who were concerned with urban issues
- referendum
- allows citizens to vote on a proposed or existing law
- recall
- allows voters to remove an elected official from office
- Robert M. La Follette
- Progressive American politician, created the Wisconsin Idea
- Wisconsin Idea
- reform program that pushed to make state governments more professonal
- Ida Tarbell
- muckraker who is most famous for exposing John D. Rockefeller's company
- Jacob Riis
- wrote How the Other Half Lives
- Lincoln Steffens
- muckraker who wrote about government corruption in his 1904 book, The Shame of the Cities
- Seventeeth Amendment
- (1913) allowed Americans to directly elect US senators
- initiative
- allowed citizens to propose new laws