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24 Cards in this Set
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Direct Primary
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is 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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which gave the voters the power to elect their senators directly
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Initiative
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gives voters the power to initiate
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Referendum
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is a companion to the initiative
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Recall
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enable voters to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election
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M.Jone and Tom Johnson
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were 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 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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as his running mate
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Arbitration
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Arbitration is the process by which two opposing sides allow a third party to settle a dispute
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Square Deal
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became Roosevelt's 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 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, such as pipelines and ferries
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Upton Sinclair
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published the jungle, an explosive novel that depicted the wretched and unsanitary conditions at a meatpacking plant
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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 conservationist, forester, and a friend of Roosevelt
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Reclamation
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the process of making damaged land productive again
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National Park service
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was created in 1916 and the National park system has continued to grow
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William Howard Taft
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his secretary to war Taft won the nomination on the first ballot
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Mann Elkins Act
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in 1910, extending the regulatory power
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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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as the the bill was called
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Richard Ballinger
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Taft's secretary of the interior
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