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40 Cards in this Set
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direct 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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Seventeenth amendment
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It gave voters the power to elect their senators directly.
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initiative
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It gave voters the power to initiate or introduce legislation.
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referendum
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It is a companion to the initiative.
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recall
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it enables voters to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election.
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Samuel M. Jones
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A self-made man who earned his fortune early in life later he traded it for politics.
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Tom Johnson
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A self-made man who earned his fortune early in life later he traded it for politics.
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Robert M. La Follette
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He began his political career as a loyal republican.
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Wisconsin idea
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La Follette backed a reform program that called for a direct primary.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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The 1900 running mate of McKinley.
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arbitration
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A process by which two opposing sides allow a third party to settle a dispute.
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The Square Deal
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Roosevelt's slogan it called that every man has a square deal no less and no more.
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Elkins Act
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If forbade shipping companies from accepting rebates.
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Hepburn Act
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it 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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He wrote The Jungle.
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Meat inspection act
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It 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 and transportation of food and patent medicine containing containing harmful ingredients.
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Gifford Pinchot
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He 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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It was created in 1916 to preserve the nations natural beauty.
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William Howard Taft
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A secretary of war under Roosevelt.
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Mann-Elkins Act
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It extended regulator powers of the interstate commerce commission to telephone and telegraph companies.
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16th amendment
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it permitted congress to levy taxes based on an individual's income.
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Payne-Aldrich Tarrif
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it was a bill dealing with tariffs.
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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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It signaled Taft's weakness on conservation.
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Joseph Cannon
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The speaker of the house of Illinois.
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George Norris
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a progressive from Nebraska who began an effort to break cannons power.
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Progressive party
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the bull moose party
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woodrow wilson
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he ran on the platform calling for tariff reduction banking reform and laws benefiting wage earners and farmers and stronger antitrust legislation.
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New Freedom
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It was Wilson's program that made proposals to help small businesses.
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Eugene Debs
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Of the socialist party he ran against wilson.
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Clayton Anti Trust Act
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It clarified and extended the 1890 sherman anti trust act.
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federal trade commision
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job was to investigate big corporations.
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adamson act
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it prevented strikes.
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keating-owen child labor act
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it outlawed the interstate trade of products made by child labor
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national women's suffrage association
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it was created to fight for women's suffrage rights.
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alice paul
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founded the congressional union for women's suffrage.
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carrie chapman catt
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she was also a great driving force in the suffrage movement.
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19th amendment
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got women's sufferage!
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