Which sentence best describes a referendum? a. a political party holds a primary to choose a candidate for legislative elections. b. citizens vote directly on a proposed law in their city or state. c. the state house of representatives holds a hearing to appoint a new speaker. d. the state's citizens votes to remove their governor from office. e. the state conducts a voluntary census so it can change legislative districts.

B. Citizens vote directly on a proposed law in their city or state.

A referendum is a measure that is "referred" to the people, more broadly, it refers to is a direct vote in which citizens vote on a particular proposal, law or bill of their city, state or country. It often offers the electorate a choice of accepting or rejecting a proposal, but it also can provide multiple options.

In the United States, referendums are on local and state level over issues concerning their area such as new zoning ordinances, new taxes for schools, and new limits on spending.

the industrial development of cities in the ruhr area in the nineteenth century is described. the research was based on english and german language sources. several factors that shaped growth and paths of the cities were categorized and analyzed. they are locations, resources, traditions, entrepreneurs, and technological developments. locations and resources were the most important among them; other factors may be regarded as consequences from locations and resources. among the cities, bochum, essen, gelsenkirchen, and dortmund had the richest resources and most favorable locations in the transportation network and grew to be the largest cities in the ruhr area near the end of the nineteenth century. riverside location was also a favorable factor for the development, as shown in the development of duisburg on the confluence of rhine and ruhr. resource distribution can explain the rise of textile industry, metallurgical industry, and coal and iron industries, and the northward progression of the mining industry. tradition was an important factor for cities such as krefeld, barmen, elberfeld, solingen, and remscheid, which experienced development based on their traditions through the nineteenth century. various entrepreneurs exerted influences within and beyond the local level over the ruhr area. technological development stimulated the northward progression of the mining industry and the deep connection between the coal and the iron industries.

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