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41 Cards in this Set
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Direct primary
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A nominating election in which voters choose the candidates who later run in a general election.
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17th Amendment
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Gave voters the power to elect their senators directly.
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Initiative
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Gives voters the power to introduce legislation.
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Referendum
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A companion to the initiative.
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Recall
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Enables voters to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election.
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Samuel M. Jones
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Mayor of Toledo in 1897 who strongly believed in the Golden Rule.
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Tom Johnson
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Mayor of Cleveland in 1897, who was said to be the "Best mayor of the best-governed city in the U.S."
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Robert M. La Follette
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Governor of Wisconsin 1900 who backed the reform program, the Wisconsin Idea.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Became president after McKinley was shot and killed of injuries.
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Arbitration
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Process by which two opposing sides allow a third party to settle a dispute.
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Square Deal
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Roosevelt's 1904 campaign slogan that meant, "Every man has a square deal, no less and no more."
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Elkins Act
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Forbade shipping companies from accepting rebates, or money given back in return for business.
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Hepburn Act
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Authorized the ICC to set railroad rates and to regulate other companies engaged in interstate commerce.
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Upton Sinclair
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Wrote, "The Jungle" about the terribly unsanitary conditions at a meatpacking plant.
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Meat Inspection Act
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Required federal government inspection of meat shipped across state lines.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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Forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food and medicine containing harmful ingredients.
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Gifford Pinchot
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A strong conservationist, forester, and a friend of Roosevelt.
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Reclamation
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The process of making damaged land productive again.
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National Park Service
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Created to help supervise parks and monuments, it was created in 1916.
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William Howard Taft
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Roosevelt's secretary of war.
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Mann-Elkins Act
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Extended regulatory powers of the ICC to telephone and telegraph companies.
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16th Amendment
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Permitted congress to levy taxes based on an individuals income.
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff
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Reductions on imports to lower the prices of consumer goods.
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Richard Ballinger
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Taft's secretary of the interior.
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Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
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Signaled Taft's weakness on conservation.
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Joseph Cannon
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Of Illinois, a conservative Republican.
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George Norris
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A progressive from Nebraska who began an effort to break Cannon's power.
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Progressive Party
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A.k.a, Bull Moose Party, had a platform based on the New Nationalism and nominated Roosevelt as their candidate.
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Woodrow Wilson
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Ran for Democratic party, had a platform calling for tariff reduction, banking reform, laws benefiting wage earners and farmers, and stronger antitrust legislation.
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New Freedom
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Program developed by Wilson that made proposals to help small businesses.
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Eugene Debs
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Of the socialist party, supported public ownership of all major industries.
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Federal Reserve Act
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Combined views of Democrats and progressive Republicans that created a three-tiered banking system.
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Clayton Antitrust Act
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Clarified and extended the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act by clearly stating what corporations could not do.
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Federal Trade Commission
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Authorized to investigate corporations.
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Adamson Act
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Reduced the workday for railroad workers from 10 hours to 8 without a cut in pay.
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Keating-Owen Child Labor
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Outlawed the interstate sale of products produced by child labor.
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
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Leading force in the women suffrage movement that took a local approach to grant women the right to vote.
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Alice Paul
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A militant young Quaker suffragist who broke away from the NAWSA, and created her own association.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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Highly skilled organizer who was one of the leaders of NAWSA.
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19th amendment
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Granted women full voting rights.
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Wisconsin Idea
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Reform program created by Robert M. La Follette.
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