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40 Cards in this Set
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Direct primary
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Election in which voters choose the candidates
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Seventeenth amendment
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Give voters the power to directly elect their senators
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Initiative
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Gives voters the power to introduce legislation
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Referendum
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Companion to the initiative, which gave voters the power to get a recently passed law on the ballot by getting enough signatures
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Recall
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Enables voters to remove an elected official from office
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Samuel m. Jones
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Successful buisnessman who became a politician
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Tom Johnson
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Successful businessman who became a politician
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Robert La Follette
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Wisconsin's governor elected in 1900
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Wisconsin idea
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A reform program started in Wisconsin
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Theodore Roosevelt
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McKinley's Vice President, and later president
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Arbitration
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When a throw party settles a dispute
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Square deal
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Roosevelt's campaign slogan and reform program
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Upton Sinclair
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Writer who published "The jungle"
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Meat inspection act
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Required federal inspection of meat being shipped
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Pure food and drug act
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Forbade the manufacture, sale, or shipping of food and medicine containing harmful ingredients
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Gifford Pinchot
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Conservationist
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Reclamation
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The process of restoring damaged land
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National park service
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Supervised parks and monuments
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William Howard Taft
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Roosevelt's secretary of war and the republican nomination
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Mann-Elkins act
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Extends the interstate commerce commission to telephone and telegraph companies
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Sixteenth amendment
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Allows congress to levy taxes based on an individual's income
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Payne Aldrich tariff
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Raised the tariff
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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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Incident whee Taft fired Pinchot for criticizing ballinger's sale of public land
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Joseph cannon
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Speaker of the house
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George Norris
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A progressive from Nebraska
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Progressive party
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Teddy Roosevelt's running party, also known as the bull moose party
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Woodrow Wilson
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Democratic candidate
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New freedom program
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Made proposals to help small buisnesses
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Eugene debs
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Socialist presidential candidate
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Federal reserve act
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Created a three tiered banking system
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Clayton antitrust act
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Clarified and extended the Sherman antitrust act
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Federal trade commission
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Investigated corporations
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Adamson act
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Prevented a massive railroad strike
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Keating- owen child labor act
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Outlawed the interstate sale of goods made with child labor
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National woman suffrage association
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Leading force in the suffrage movement, founded in 1890
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Alice Paul
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Formed the congressional union for woman suffrage
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Carrie chapman Catt
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Organizer and one of the leaders of NAWSA
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Nineteenth amendment
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Granted women full voting rights
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