Progressive Political Reform Vocab

A direct vote in which the people vote on a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new law.

• laissez-faire

• recall

• referendum

• direct primary

A process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot.

• Initiative

• secret ballot

• muckraker

• nativist

A procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office.

• entrepreneur

• recall

• horizontal integration

• secret ballot

a primary in which voters choose candidates via direct vote

• secret ballot

• direct primary

• vertical intergration

• referendum

reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in popular magazines.

• nativist

• initiative

• laissez-faire

• muckraker

a strategy whereby a company owns or controls its suppliers, distributors, or retail locations to control its value or supply chain.

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

• infrastructure

• recall

absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

• entrepreneur

• laissez-faire

a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

• initiative

• entrepreneur

• muckraker

• nativist

 policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society

• horizontal integration

• referendum

• laissez-faire

• vertical integration

a social philosophy advocating the removal of inequalities among people.

• egalitarianism

• nativist

• direct primary

• infrastructure