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11/04/2012

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progressive movement
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aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life. protecting social welfare promoting moral improvement creating economic reform fostering efficiency
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Florence Kelley
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advocate for improving the lives of children and women. she won the Illinois factory act in 1893 which stopped child labor and limited the amount of hours a women can work.
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Prohibition
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banning of alcoholic beverages.
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Muckraker
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a person who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s
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scientific management
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the application of scientific principles to increase efficiency in the work place
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Robert M. La Follette
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progressive republican. wisconsin led the way in regulating big business. "fightin bob" was govener for 3 terms then went into senate in 1906. he wanted to drive corporations out of politics.
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Initiative
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a procedure by which a legislative measure can be originated by people rather than by lawnmakers
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recall
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a procedure for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people
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Seventeenth Amendment
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adopted 1913 that provides for election of u.s. senators by the people rather than by state legislature
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Referendum
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a procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted
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