Chapter 6 vocab 1
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- Lincoln Steffens
- wrote part of Ida Tarbell's expose on the standard oil CO.
- Muckrakers
- journalists that exposed the filth of society
- Referendum
- Allowed citizens to place a recently passed law on the ballot, allowing voters to approve or reject the measures
- Ida Tarbell
- one of the leading muckrakers during the progressive era
- Robert M. La Follette
- Governer that proposed the Wisconsin Idea
- Jacob Riis
- Journalist and Photographer that wanted to show how the poor and homeless lived in NY
- Wisconsin Idea
- Proposal to have more electoral reforms
- Initiative
- Allowed voters to put a proposed law on the ballot for public approval
- Progressives
- Reformers that addressed the social problems caused by industrialization
- Seventeenth Amendment
- Gave voters the power to directly elect their US senators
- Recall
- Enabled citizens to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election