Progressive era reforms such as the initiative referendum and recall attempted to

These reforms were meant to give more power to the people, as opposed to consolidating power in the hands of a few. Things like recall elections played a big part in this.

Was giving by lincoln on march 4, 1865-as lincoln prepared to speak, the civil war was drawing to a close-lincolns address of 703 words was the second shortest inaugural address-lincoln mentions god 14 times-505 of the words were one syllable -he used the word "war" or it's pronoun 9 times