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24 Cards in this Set
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Direct Primary
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a nominating election in which voters choose the canidates who later run in a general election.
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Seventh Amendment
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Which gave voters the power to elect their senators directly
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initiate
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give voters the power to initiate or introduce legelation
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referendum
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a companion to the intivate
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recall
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enables voters to remove an elected official from officials from office by calling for a special election.
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Mr Jones
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secsusful reform mayors were elected in Ohio
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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. LA Follette
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began his political carrerr 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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his running mate
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arbitration
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process by which two sides allow a third party to settle a dispute
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Square deal
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Roosevelt 1904 campaign slogan
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Elkins Act
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forbade shipping companies from accepting rebates or money given back in return for buisness
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Hepburn Act
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authorized th ICC to set railroad rates and to regulate other companies engaged in interstate commerce, such as pipelines and ferries
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Upton sinclair
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the Jungle an explosive novel that depicted the wreched unsanitary conditions
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Meat inspection Act
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federal Government inspection of meat shipped across state lines.
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Pure food and Drug Act
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the manufacturing, sale, or transportation of food and patent medicine containing harmful ingredients.
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Gifford Pinchot
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a strong conservationist forester and a friend or Roosevelt
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reclamation
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process of making damage land productive again
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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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secratary of war
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Mann- Elkins Act
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extending the regalary powers of the interstate comerce commision to telephone and telegraph companies
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Sixteenth Amendment
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proposed in 1909 and ratified in 1913
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Payne- Aldrich Tariff
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the bill was called
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