Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that
best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Robert M. La Follette gained fame for being a
a. | reform governor | c. | hard-hitting journalist | b. | socialist labor
leader | d. | supporter of
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Why were early efforts to enact federal bans on child labor unsuccessful?
a. | They had little public support | c. | Factory owners simply ignored the
laws | b. | Labor unions fought the legislation | d. | The Supreme Court ruled them
unconstitutional |
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The Seventeenth Amendment allowed for
a. | suffrage for women | c. | the prohibition of liquor | b. | a federal income
tax. | d. | the direct election of
senators |
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Scientific management was an effort to improve efficiency by
a. | developing interchangeable parts | c. | raising wages to improve
workers’ attitudes | b. | making production tasks simpler and
easier | d. | improving the
balance among business, government, and the worker |
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In the mid-1800s, most women who held jobs worked as
a. | clerks | c. | servants. | b. | teachers | d. | factory workers |
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In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed
a. | dangers faced by working children | c. | the corrupt business practices of
the Standard Oil Company. | b. | unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing
industry | d. | illegal deals
between special interests and the U.S. Forest Bureau |
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A new federal income tax was enacted mainly because
a. | newly created federal agencies needed to be funded. | c. | the government had lost revenue by
enacting lower tariffs. | b. | demands for social welfare had drained the
federal budget | d. | the division
between the rich and poor was growing too wide |
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In 1912, which candidate was considered a conservative?
a. | Eugene V. Debs | c. | Theodore Roosevelt | b. | Woodrow Wilson | d. | William Howard
Taft |
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Was “kicked upstairs” but then became an immensely popular
president
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Oversaw banking reform and the founding of the Federal Reserve System
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Served only one term as president
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Was described as a man who “was born halfway between the Bible and the
dictionary and never got away from either
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Became unpopular because, despite promises to lower tariffs, he signed a bill
that did not accomplish this
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Promised to do all he could to correct conditions in the meatpacking
industry
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Demanded settlement of a major coal strike and confessed to being tempted to
throw a mine owner out a White House window
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Actively supported civil rights for African Americans
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Served both as president and as chief justice of the Supreme Court
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Was accused by his predecessor of being a fathead with the brain of a guinea
pig
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Planned a “New Freedom” from trusts, tariffs, and high
finance
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Became so enraged by an African-American critic that he made him and his
delegation leave the White House
a. | Theodore Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow Wilson | b. | William H. Taft | d. | None of these |
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Social reform movement in the early 20th century
a. | Republicanism | c. | Democracy | b. | progressive movement | d. | National
Socialism |
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Social reformer
a. | Florence Nightingale | c. | Florence Kelley | b. | Herman Goering | d. | Jane Adams |
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23.
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Making the sale or use of alcohol illegal
a. | legalization | c. | prohibition | b. | California 502 | d. | bootlegging |
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Writer who exposes wrongdoing
a. | muckraker | c. | new dealer | b. | populist | d. | tabloid
journalist |
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Using scientific ideas to make work more efficient
a. | Scientology | c. | technological electronics | b. | industrialization | d. | scientific management |
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26.
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Progressive Wisconsin governor and senator
a. | Howard Dean | c. | Robert M. LaFollette | b. | H.
Clinton | d. | Wm. Jennings
Bryan |
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A way for people to propose laws directly
a. | referendum | c. | proponent | b. | recall | d. | initiative |
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A way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote
a. | referendum | c. | initiative | b. | recall | d. | amendment |
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A vote on whether to remove a public official from office
a. | impeachment | c. | referendum | b. | recall | d. | initiative |
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30.
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Amendment providing for senators to be elected directly
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31.
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Well-known teacher of science at Vassar College, one of the new colleges for
women
a. | Eleanor Roosevelt | c. | Maria Mitchell | b. | Sarah Walcott Anderson | d. | Jane Adams |
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National Association of Colored Women; founded in 1896 to improve living and
working conditions for African-American women
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The right to vote; a major goal of women reformers
a. | registration | c. | civil rights | b. | suffrage | d. | prohibition |
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NAWSA _____; founded in 1890 to help women win the right to vote
a. | National Association of Women Social Activism | c. | National American Woman Suffrage
Association | b. | National Admitted Women Singles Association | d. | National American Women Suffering
Activity |
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Leader of the woman suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement’s
goals and beliefs and to lead its actions
a. | Margaret Sanger | c. | Susan B. Anthony | b. | Melissa Stone | d. | Carrie Nation |
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Novelist who exposed social problems
a. | Upton Sinclair | c. | F.Scott Fitzgerald | b. | Anthony Lewis | d. | Earnest
Hemingway |
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Novel by Upton Sinclair describing meatpacking
a. | Food at any Price | c. | The Jungle | b. | Meatpacking scandal | d. | The Forest of
Food |
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President from 1901 to 1909
a. | William Howard Taft | c. | William Jennings Bryan | b. | Theodore Roosevelt
| d. | Woodrow
Wilson |
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Square Deal - President _____ program of progressive reforms
a. | Truman’s | c. | Taft’s | b. | Roosevelt’s | d. | Wilson’s |
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Law reforming meatpacking conditions, 1906
a. | meat prohibition | c. | Interstate Commerce Act | b. | Chicago Stock Yards
Bill | d. | Meat Inspection Act
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Law to stop the sale of unclean food and drugs, 1906
a. | Pure Food and Drug Act | c. | Food and Drug Administration
Act | b. | Meat Inspections Act | d. | Clean Food Act |
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The planned management of natural resources
a. | CCC | c. | conservation | b. | Natural Resources Planning and
Management | d. | Wildlife
Fund |
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NAACP , _____ founded in 1909 to work for racial equality
a. | Urban League | c. | National Association for the Administration Colored
People | b. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | d. | National Association for the Advancement of
Crazy People |
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44.
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President from 1909 to 1913, successor to Roosevelt
a. | Woodrow Wilson | c. | William Jennings Bryan | b. | Franklin
Roosevelt | d. | William Howard
Taft |
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45.
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Tariff Bill meant to lower tariffs on imported goods
a. | Smoot-Haley | c. | Interstate Commerce | b. | Taft-Hartley | d. | Payne-Aldrich |
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46.
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Head of the U.S. Forest Service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was
possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them
a. | Ansel Adams | c. | Gifford Pinchot | b. | Howard Taft | d. | La Folleitt |
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Nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in
the election of 1912
a. | Progressive Party | c. | Bull Moose Party | b. | Teddy Party | d. | Libertarian
Party |
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Winner of the 1912 presidential election
a. | Woodrow Wilson | c. | Howard Taft | b. | Teddy Roosevelt | d. | Herbert Hoover |
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49.
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Law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm
organizations
a. | Smoot-Hawley Act | c. | Federal Communications Act | b. | Interstate Commerce
Act | d. | Clayton Antitrust Act
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A federal agency set up in 1914 to investigate businesses to help enforce the
laws
a. | Interstate Commerce Commission | c. | Intrastate Commerce
Commission | b. | Federal Trade Commission | d. | Federal Communications Commission |
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National banking system begun in 1913
a. | Federal Deposit Insurance Commission | c. | National Mint | b. | Federal Reserve
System | d. | Federal Banking
Commission |
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52.
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President of NAWSA, who led the campaign for woman suffrage during
Wilson’s administration
a. | Carrie Nation | c. | Elizabeth Stanton | b. | Carrie Chapman Catt | d. | Annie Hall |
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Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote
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54.
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Maria Mitchell
a. | founder and first president of Vassar College | c. | Native American woman who spoke out
for the Ponca people | b. | arrested for attempting to vote in a national
election | d. | first woman
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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NACW
a. | National Alliance of College Women | c. | National Association of Clubs for
Women | b. | National Association for Colored Women | d. | National Association of Childcare
Workers |
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Suffrage
a. | discrimination | c. | the right to vote | b. | women’s rights | d. | the denial of the right to
vote |
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Susan B. Anthony
a. | discovered a new comet | c. | first American woman to earn a professional
degree | b. | leader in the woman’s suffrage movement | d. | first American woman elected to a national
political office |
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NAWSA
a. | National American Woman Service Association | c. | National American Woman Scientists
Association
| b. | National American Woman Suffrage Association | d. | National American Workers and Servants
Association |
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Which party won the 1912 election?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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To which party did William Howard Taft belong?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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Which party was known as the Bull Moose Party?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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Which party nominated Woodrow Wilson for president?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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Which party split over the Payne-Aldrich Tariff and other issues?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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Which party ran the most conservative candidate in the 1912 election?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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Which party nominated Eugene V. Debs for president in the 1912 election?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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66.
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Which party chose the incumbent president as its candidate in the 1912
election?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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Which party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president in the 1912
election?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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Which party did Theodore Roosevelt represent during his two terms as
president?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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Which party nominated a candidate to serve a third term as president in the 1912
election?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democratic Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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Which party was the presidential administration that fired Gifford Pinchot from
the U.S. Forest Service because of his conservationist ideas?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democrat Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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71.
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Which party’s candidate endorsed a progressive platform called the
“New Freedom” that demanded stronger antitrust legislation, banking reform, and reduced
tariffs?
a. | Socialist Party | c. | Democrat Party | b. | Republican Party | d. | Progressive
Party |
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Matching
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a. | recall | f. | Florence Kelley | b. | initiative | g. | Robert M. La Follette | c. | prohibition | h. | scientific management | d. | referendum | i. | progressive movement | e. | mucraker | j. | Seventeenth Amendment |
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This is a vote on an initiative
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73.
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This is another name for progressivism
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74.
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This is a bill initiated, or launched by citizens
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75.
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this allowed for the popular, or direct, election of U.S. Senators
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76.
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This was one of the inspirations for the creation of assembly lines at the Ford
Motor Company
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77.
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This reform goernor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin made the railroad industry
a major target of the progressive movement
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78.
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this allows voters to force public officials to face another election before
the end of their terms if enough voters ask for it
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79.
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this is a term used to describe a journalist who exposed government abuses and
big business corruption to the readers of mass circulation magazines and newspapers
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80.
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Members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union fought for this cause
by entering saloons, singing, praying and asking saloon-keepers to stop selling alcohol
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81.
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This progressive championed the rights of women and children by moving into a
settlement house, working as a Chief Inspector of Factories for Illinois, and helping to win passage
of the Illinois Factory Act
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a. | recall | f. | Florence Kelley | b. | initiative | g. | Robert M. La Follette | c. | Prohibition | h. | scientific management | d. | referendum | i. | progressive movement | e. | muckraker | j. | Seventeenth
Amendment |
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82.
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This is a vote on an initiative
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83.
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This is another name for
progressivism
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84.
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This is a bill initiated, or launched by
citizens
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85.
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This allowed for the popular, or direct, election
of U.S. Senators
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86.
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This was one of the inspirations for the creation
of assembly lines at the Ford Motor Company
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87.
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This reform governor and U.S. senator from
Wisconsin made the railroad industry a manor target
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This allows voters to force public officials
to face another election before the end of their terms if enough voters ask for it
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89.
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This is a term used to describe a journalist who
exposed government abuses and big business corruption to the readers of mass circulation magazines
and newspapers
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90.
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Members of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union fought for this cause by entering saloons, singing, praying and asking saloon-keepers to stop
selling alcohol.
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91.
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This progressive championed the rights of women
and children by moving into a settlement house, working as a Chief Inspector of Factories for
Illinois and helping to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act
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