Ch. 6 Sec. 1
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- Referendum
- Allows citizens to place a recently passed law on the ballot, allowing voters to approve or reject the measures.
- Ida Tarbell
- Wrote a scathing report condemning the business practices of the Standard Oil Company.
- WEB Du Bois
- One of the progressives who formed the multiracial NAACP.
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- At least 140 people died in a factory after being locked in for fear that they might rob the owners.
- Labor Unions
- Worked to secure laws ensuring workers a minimum wage.
- Seventeenth Amendment
- Gave voters the power to directly elect their US senators.
- Lincoln Steffens
- Exposed the corruption of the city governments in The Shame of The Cities.
- Robert M. La Follette
- Governor who came up with the Wisconsin Idea.
- Jane Addams
- One of the progressives who formed the multiracial NAACP.
- Initiative
- Allows voters to put a proposed law on the ballot for public approval.
- Florence Kelley
- Helped persuade Illinois to prohibit child labor and to limit the number of hours women were forced to work.
- AFL
- American Federation of Labor, a labor union.
- Jacob Riis
- Author of How the Other Half Lives.
- Muckrakers
- Journalists who exposed the filth of society.
- Recall
- Enables citizens to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election.
- How the Other Half Lives
- Book published to bring the filth of society to America's attention.
- Wisconsin Idea
- Electoral reforms, such as limits on campaign spending.
- Progressives
- Reformers that addressed many of the social problems that industrialization created.
- NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.