Progressive Era

Allows voters to petition to have an elected representative removed from office.

• initiate

• recall

• direct primary

• populist

Allows voters to decide if a bill or proposed amendment should be passed.

• Progressives

• The Jungle

• Secret Ballot

• Referendum

Answer explanation

Allows voters to decide if a bill or proposed amendment should be passed.

Allows voters to petition state legislatures in order to consider a bill desired by citizens.

• Initiative

• Referendum

• Secret Ballot

• Muckrakers

Privacy at the ballot box ensures that citizens can cast votes without party bosses knowing how they voted.

• Political Boss

• Secret Ballot

• Direct Primary

• Populist

Ensures that voters select candidates to run for office, rather than party bosses.

• Jane Addams

• Commissioner Plan

• Progressives

• Direct Primary

A novel published by ____ ____, exposing the conditions of the meat packing industry is titled, The Jungle.

Act requiring federal inspection of meat so through interstate commerce and require the agriculture department to set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants.

• Women Suffrage

• Food and Drug Act

• Farmers Alliance

• FBI

City Commissioner Plan

• Cities hired experts in different fields to run a single aspect of city government.

• Ensures that voters select candidates to run for office, rather than party bosses.

• Economic principle that explains why prices rise and fall.

• Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs.

City Manager Plan

• Left entire city in ruins

• Permitted a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it.

• Provided voters an option to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before the term has ended.

• A professional city manager is hired to run each department of the city and report directly to the city council.

People (many times journalists) who exposed problems ("muck" or dirt) in society to the public are