Vocabulary:

1. Populism - an independent political party

2. Progressivism - a political reform movement

3. drought - a period of little or no rain

4. initiative - the right or procedure by which citizens can propose a new law by petition and have it voted on by other citizens

5. referendum - the practice of placing a measure directly before the voters rather than deciding it through a legislative body

6. petition - a written document making a request

7. commission - a group of people who are given power to carry out a job or duty

8. compensation - payment for work or injury

9. prohibition - the forbidding by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

10. suffrage - the right to vote

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