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20 Cards in this Set
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Regulation of Big Business
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Democracy
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Referendum
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Scientific Management
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Efficiency
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Women's Christian Temperance Union
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Social Welfare
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Initiative
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Allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it.
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Commission Plan
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Cities run by people who had expertise in city services
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Temperance
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Movement for moderation or elimination of alcohol
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Referendum
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Allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to voters for approval.
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Workers' Compensation
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Insurance fund financed by employers
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Muckraker
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Exposed corruption and scandel
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Seventeenth Amendment
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Provided for the direct election of senators.
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Sixteenth Amendment
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Made it legal for the federal government to tax the income of individuals directly.
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Nineteenth Ammendment
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Guaranteed women the right to vote.
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Wisconsin
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Laboratory of Democracy
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Prohibition
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Banned the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol.
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Richard A. Ballinger
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Tried to open nearly a millions acres of public land to private development.
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Woodrow Wilson
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As governor of New Jersey, he introduced many progressive reforms.
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Ida Tarbell
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Wrote articles criticizing Standard Oil.
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Meat Inspection Act
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was passed in response to The Jungle.
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Children's Bureau
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Investigated and publicized problems with child labor.
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