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41 Cards in this Set
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direct primary
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nominating election in which voters choose the candidates who run for office
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Seventeenth Amendment
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gave voters power to elect senators directly
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initiative
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gives voters power to initiate legislation
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referendum
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companion to the initiative
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recall
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enables voters to remove elected officer
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Samuel M. Jones
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self made man
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Tom Johnson
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earned fortune early in life
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Robert M. La Follette
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began career as a Republican
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Wisconsin Idea
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became model for other states
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Theodore Roosevelt
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running mate with McKinley
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arbitration
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allow a third party
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Square Deal
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Roosevelt's campaign slogan
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Elkins Act
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forbade shipping companies to accept rebates
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Hepburn Act
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authorized ICC to set railroad rates
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Upton Sinclair
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published The Jungle
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Meat Inspection Act
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required inspection of meat shipped across state lines
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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forbade manufacture of food containing harmful ingredients
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Gifford Pinchot
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strong conservationist
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reclamation
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process of making damaged land productive
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National Park Service
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created in 1916
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William Howard Taft
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secretary of war
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Mann-Elkins Act
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extended regulatory powers
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Sixteenth Amendment
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permitted Congress to levy taxes based on income
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff
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bill the was signed
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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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signale Taft's weakness
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Joseph Cannon
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conservative Republican
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George Norris
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progressive from Nebraska
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Progressive Party
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Bull Moose
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Woodrow Wilson
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Democratic government
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New freedom
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helped small business
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Eugene Debs
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of the Socialist Party
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federal reserve act
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combined two views
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Clayton Antitrust Act
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in October 1914
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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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prevented a strike
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Keating-Owen Child labor Act
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in 1916
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national American woman suffrage association
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founded in 1890
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Alice Paul
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Quaker suffragist
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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attain voting rights
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Nineteenth Amendment
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granted women full voting rights
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