Vocabulary: The Progressive Era

Use your textbook or the Internet to define each term. A brief description  identifying one or two important details will do. Answers are available.

1) Progressivism:
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2) Populism: 
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3) Mugwumps:
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4) Henry George:
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5) Edward Bellamy:
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6) Jacob Riis:
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7) Muckrakers:
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8) Ida Tarbell:

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9) Lincoln Steffens: 
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10) The Jungle:
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11) Robert "Battling Bob" La Follette
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12) Direct Primary:
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13) Referendum:
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14) Initiative: 
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15) Recall:
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16) Secret Ballot:
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17) Seventeenth Amendment:
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18) National Woman Suffrage Association: 
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19) Booker T. Washington:
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20) William E. B. Du Bois:


21) NAACP:
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22) United Mine Workers:
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23) Hepburn Act:
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24) Pure Food & Drug Act:
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25) Newlands Act:
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26) Bull Moose Party:
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27) Federal Reserve Act:
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28) Clayton Anti-trust Act:
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