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39 Cards in this Set
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direct primary
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nominating election which voters choose candidates who later run in election
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17th amendment
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gave voters power to elect their senators
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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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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 special election
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Samuel M. Jones
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self-made men who earned their fortunes early in life
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Tom Johnson
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same as Jones
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Rovert M. La Follette
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began political career as a loyal republican
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wisconsin idea
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reform program, became model for other states
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square deal
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Roosevelt's 1904 campain slogan
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arbitrtion
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process by which two opposing sides allow a third party to settle a dispute
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Elkins Act
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forbade shipping companies form accepting rabates
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Upton Sinclair
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published the jungle, an explosive novel that depicted the wreched
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Meat inspection act
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required federal gov inspection of meat shipped across state lines
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Pur food and Drug act
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forbade the manufacture sale or transportation of food and patent medicine containing harmful ingrdients
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Gifford Pinchot
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strong conservationist forester and friend of Roosevelt
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reclamation
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process of making damaged land productive again
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National Park Service
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help supervise parks and monumnets 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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extending regulatory powers of the interstate commerce comission to telephon and telepgraoh 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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bill taft signed
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Richard Ballinger
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tafts secretary of interior
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balling-pinchot affair
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signaled tafts weakness on conservation
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Joaeph cannon
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speaker of house os illinois
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George Norris
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progressive from nebraska began to break cannons power
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progressve party
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also called bull mosse party after roosevelt declared that he felt fit as a bull moose to run
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Woodrow Wilson
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Governor of New Jersey
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New Freedom
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made proposals to help small businesses
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Eugene Debs
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preisdent canidate from socialist party
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federal reserve act
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combined these two views. created a three-riered 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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federal law reducing the workday for railroad workers from 10 hours to 8 with no cut in pay
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Keating-owen child labor act
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outlawed interstate sale of products produced by child labor
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NAWSA
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leading force in suffrage movement
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Alice Paul
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militant young quaker suffragist, broke away from NAWSA
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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NAWSA organizer continued to use traditional political strategies to attain voting rights
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19th amendment
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granted women full voting rights
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