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14 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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Seventeenth 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 initiate, or 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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M. Jones
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Self-made man who earned their fortunes early in life.
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Tom Johnson
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Self-made man who earned their fortunes early in life.
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Robert M. La Follette
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Began his political career as a loyal Republican.
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Wisconsin Idea
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Became a model for other states.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Ran for re-election with President McKinley
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Arbitration
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Square Deal
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Theodore Roosevelt's 1904 presidential campaign slogan pledging to balance the interests of business, consumers, and labor.
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Elkins Act
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Federal law that prohibited shippers from accepting rebates
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Hepburn Act
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Law that authorized the INterstate Commerce Commission to set railroad rates and to regulate other companies engaged in interstate commerce.
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