"The Progressives": HTML5 Crossword

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6. Republicans and Democrats commonly nominated who for state and federal office in state conventions dominated by party bosses? (10)
7. What was the first state to adopt a system successfully tried in Australia of issuing ballots printed by the state and requiring voters to mark their choices secretly within a private booth? (13,0)
10. Who wrote The Shame of the Cities? (7,7)
13. Who wrote How the Other Half Lives? (5,4)
14. Who introduced a new system for bypassing politicians and placing the nominating process directly in the hands of the voters the direct primary? (6,2,8)
15. A period of growing idealism and sweeping social, economic, and political change? (11,3)

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1. The cornerstone of Progressive ideology was faith in? (9)
2. First people to articulate the new spirit of national reform were crusading journalists who began to direct public attention toward social, economic, and political injustices? (10)
3. A method that allowed citizens to vote directly on proposed laws printed on their ballots? (10,0)
4. They were optimistic that society was capable of improvement and that continued growth and advancement were the nation’s destiny? (12)
5. What was the first state to give the voters the opportunity to elect U.S. senators directly? (6)
8. U.S. senators had been chosen by this group rather than by direct vote of the people? (5,12,0)
9. Enabled voters to remove a corrupt politician from office by majority vote before that official’s term had expired? (6)
11. What famous book did Upton Sinclair publish? (3,6)
12. A method by which voters could compel the legislature to consider a bill? (10)