The progressive era brought along with it problems caused by industrialization and urbanization. The reform movement knows as Progressivism was made up of people who wanted the government to address big business issues and welfare. Muckrakers played a huge role in the progressive era, they were writers who exposed the horrible conditions in the factories, political corruption, and financial deceits of corporations and contributed to the reform efforts. Direct primary, initiative, referendum, and recall where all efforts in the progressive era that made government more responsive and efficient. Prohibition also contributed in this era, they banned alcohol and later passed the eighteenth amendment which meant the banning of manufacturing, selling,