CH 6 group 1
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- how the other half lives
- book wrote by Jacob Riis in order to show the lives of the poor
- wisconsin idea
- number of reforms by la follette
- 17th amendment
- allowed American voters to directly elect US senators
- lincoln steffens
- muckraker, wanted to expose the real villians of the cities "businessmen" that bribed people
- progressives
- reform movements to better life in cities
- ida tarbell
- muckraker, wanted to show others the effects the Standard Oil Company did to society
- the jungle
- book writen by upton sinclair that exposed the wretched and unsanitary living conditions at meatpacking plants
- initiative
- a method of allowing voters to propose a new law on the ballot for public approval
- robert m. la follette
- state government reform
- recall
- enables citizens to remove an elected official
- jacob riis
- journalist and photographer;wanted to show the lives of the poor, HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
- muckrakers
- journalists who exposed corruption and problems of society
- referendum
- allows citizens to place a recently passed law on the ballot, in order to approve or reject ballot