Progressive Practice

What group was convinced that rich industrialists and bankers had a stranglehold on the government?

• Grangers

• Populists

• Muckrakers

• large corporations

When voters can directly introduce bills to state governments and vote on whether they want the bill is passed is called

• initiative

• referendum

• recall

• roundhouse

Why did Jacob Riis publish his book of photographs "How the Other Half Lives"?

• Exposing Rockefeller

• Expose the meat packing industry

• Exposing the railroads

• Exposing how the urban poor lived

Why did Roosevelt and Wilson push the creation of national parks and the National Park Service?

• decrease climate change

• preserve natural resources

• obtain fossil fuels

• control flooding

During the Progressive Era, one goal of state level political reformers was to

• prevent party leaders from changing campaign platforms

• limit the use of judicial review

• promote direct democracy

• increase business owner influence

What was the result of Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle"?

• direct democracy

• new taxes on food

• less government regulation

• laws created to protect health and safety

What was the 17th amendment?

• prohibition

• women's suffrage

• income tax

• direct election of senators

Who created Hull House to aid immigrants and the poor?

• Ida B. Wells

• Ida Tarbell

• Jane Addams

• Susan B. Anthony

When voters can remove an elected official from office this is called

• initiative

• referendum

• recall

• robocop