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41 Cards in this Set
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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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Recall
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enables voters to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election.
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Directory 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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Referendum
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a companion to the initiative
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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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self-made men who earned their fortunes early in life.
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Robert M. LaFollette
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began his political career as a loyal republican
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Wisconsin Idea
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that became a model for other states
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Theodore Roosevelt
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ran for election of 1900 with President McKinley
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Arbitration
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two opposing sides allow a third party to settle a dispute
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Square deal
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was roosevelts1904 campaign slogan.
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Elkins act
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forbade shipping campanies 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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published the jungle, an explosive novel that depicted the wretched and unsanitary meatpacking plant conditions.
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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 patent medicine containing harmful ingredients.
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Gifford Pinchot
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was a strong conversationist, forester, and a 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 the parks and monuments.
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William howard taft
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president roosevelts secretary of war.
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Mann-Elkins act
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extended the regulatory powers of the interstate commerce commission to telephone and telegraph companies
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Sixteenth 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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lower the prices of consumer goods.
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Richard Ballinger
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Tafts secretary of the interior
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Ballinger-Pinchot affair
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signaled tafts weakness on conservation
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Joseph Cannon
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conservative republican
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George Norris
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a progressive from nebraska, began an effort to break Cannons power.
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Progressive party
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also called the bull moose party after roosevelt declared that he felt fit as a bull moose to run
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Woodrow Wilson
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ran on a platform calling for tariff reduction, banking reform, laws enefting wage earners and farmers, and stronger antitrust legislation
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New Freedom
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program made proposals to help small businesses
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Eugene Debs
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socialist party
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Federal Reserve act
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combined 2 views
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Clayton Antitrust act
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clarified and extended the 1890 Sherman antitrust by clearly stating what corporations
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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 the strike
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Keating-Owen child labor act
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child labor
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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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militant young quaker suffragist
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Carrie Chapman catt
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use traditional political strategies to attain voting rights
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19th ammendment
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granted women full voting rights
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