Progressive Era Vocabulary

Allows voters to put proposed law on the ballot for public approval

• Referendum

• Recall

• Secret ballot

• Initiative

Referendum

• Vote on an initiative

• Allows voters to remove public officials from elected positions

• Allows voters to put proposed law on the ballot for public approval

• Method that allows all voters to vote in secret without influence from individuals

Allows voters to remove public officials from elected positions

• Recall

• Referendum

• Initiative

• Direct primary

Method that allows all voters to vote in secret without influence from individuals

• Secret ballot

• Direct primary

• Initiative

• Civil service

Voters select the nominees for upcoming election.

• Civil service

• Third party

• Conservation

• Direct primary

Working as part of the government in a non-elected position

• Civil service

• Third party

• Conservation

• Regulation

Regulation

• Working as part of the government in a non-elected position

• Power of an authority to enforce rules

• To save resources of the environment

• A political party, not one of the two dominant parties in American politics

To save resources of the environment

• Conservation

• Tariff

• Independent candidate

• Third party

A political party, not one of the two dominant parties in American politics

• Third party

• Federal Reserve

• Tariff

• Independent candidate

Sometimes also rebel candidates from a party contesting the election, who were unable to secure their party's nomination

• Independent candidate

• Monetary policy

• Federal reserve

• Tariff