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"Progressives"
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The new crusaders, waged war on evils like monopolies, corruption, inefficiency, and social injustice
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Henry Demarest Lloyd
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Assailed the Standard Oil Company in his book Wealth Against the Commonwealth.
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Jacob A. Riis
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Wrote How the Other Half lives; about the dark and dirty slums of New York.
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Muckrakers
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Popular magazines; they exposed the corruption and scandal that the public loved to hate.
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Lincoln Steffens
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Launched a series of articles in McClures titled The Shame of the Cities, it unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.
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Ida M. Tarbell
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Published a devastating depiction of the Standard Oil Company .
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David G. Phillips
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Published The Treason of the Senatae in Cosmopolitan charged 75 or 90 senators which didnt represent the people but the railroads and trusts.
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Ray Stannard
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Wrote Following the Color line;about the suppression of America's blacks
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John Spargo
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Wrote of the abuses of child labor; in The Bitter Cry of the Children
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Initiative
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Voters could directly propose legislation themselves
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Referendum
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Would place laws on ballots for final approval by the people
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Recall
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Would enable voters to remove faithless corrupt officials.
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17th Amendment
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Passed 1913; established direct election of senators.
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Robert M. La Follette
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Took considerable control from the corrupt corporations and returned it to the people
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Hiram W. Johnson
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Governor of CA; helped to break the dominant grip of the Southern Pacific Railroad on CA politics in 1910.
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