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41 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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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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Referendum
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A 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 a special election.
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Samual m jones
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Self made man who earned fortune early in life
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Tom Johnson
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Self made man who earned fortune 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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Became a model for other states
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Ran as president McKinleys running mate in his re-election
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Arbitration
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The 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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Became Roosevelt's 1904 campaign slogan
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Elkins act
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Forbade shipping companies from accepting rebates.
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The 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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Uptown Sinclair
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Published The Jungle, and explosive novel that depicted the wretched and unsanitary conditions at a meat packing 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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The pure food and drug act
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Forbade the manufacture, Salem 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
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National park service
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Was created in 1916
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William Howard Taft
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Roosevelt's secretary of war.
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Mann-Elkins
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In 1910 extending 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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A low tariff bill nd turned into a high tariff measure
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Richard ballinger
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Rafts secretary of the interior
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Ballinger Pinchot affair
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Signaled rafts weakness on conservation
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George Norris
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A progressive from Nebraska who began and effort to break canons power
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Woodrow Wilson
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He ran for a platform calling for tariff reduction banking reform laws benefiting wage earners.
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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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Supported radically different economy,Ic order including public ownership of all major industries
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Federal reserve act
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It created a three tiered banking system
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Clayton antitrust act
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Clarified and extended the 1890 Sherman antitrust act
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Federal trade commission
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Authorized to investigate cooperations
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Adamson act
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Win applause from reformers but also prevented the strike
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Kreating Owen child labor act
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Rising protest against child labor
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National American woman suffrage association
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Took a nonpartisan local approach to get state legislature to grant women to vote
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Alice Paul
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A militant young Quaker suffragist
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Carrie chapman Catt
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Continue to use traditional political strategies to attain voting rights.
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Nineteenth amendment
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Granted women full right to vote.
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Federal reserve act
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Created three pier banking system
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Sixteenth amendment
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Ratified an individuals income
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