... the state governments included home rule, the initiative, and the referendum. Home rule meant granting cities the right to govern themselves. The initiative gave voters the ability to pass laws without approval from the state legislature. Through the referendum voters could also reject laws accepted by the legislature. Progressives felt the need for social reforms, too. This included reforms in response to the poor quality of meatpacking houses. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle ... exposed the poor conditions ... ...

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... progressive Upton Sinclair was a great and persuasive muckraker. He wrote more than a hundred books about unsanitary condition, political bosses and corruption to open the eyes of the citizen. In 1906 Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, his most famous novel about the meat-packing industry in Chicago. In response to this book Americans demanded federal laws prohibiting unhealthful conditions in food-processing industries and more than ... half of people who read this book became vegetations. As soon as Roosevelt read this book he persuaded congress to get Pure Food and Drug Act and Mea...

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