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What established direct primaries?
Robert M. LaFollette(Progressives)
How did Progressives plan to improve government?
Progressives believed that the government should have policies that protected workers. They also thought government should help the poor.
What are Progressives and Muckrakers?
Progressives were reformers who worked to improve social and political problems, begining in the late 1800s; Muckrakers were mostly progressives who exposed political corruption in big business through journalism in order to bring about reform.
What were progressives most concerned with?
socioeconomic issues
Why progressives in the early1900s sought government action to control monopolies?
Pretty much all progressives sought action to control monopolies. Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft stand out as the two glaring examples of progressives who took action to control monopolies.
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