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39 Cards in this Set
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Direct Primary
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A nominating election
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Seventeenth Amendment
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Gave voters the power to elect their senators.
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Initiative
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Gives voters the power to initiate legislative
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Referendum
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Companion to the initiative.
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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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Self-made man
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Tom Johnson
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Self made man
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Robert M. La Follette
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Began career as a loyal republican, became a district attorney
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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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McKinley's running mate.
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Arbitration
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Where two sides allow a third to to settle a dispute
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Square Deal
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Roosevelt's campaign slogan
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Elkins Act
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Forbade shipping companies from accepting rebates.
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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
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Meat Inspection Act
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Required federal government 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.
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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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Helped supervise the parks and monuments
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William Howard Taft
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Secretary of war
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Mann-Elkins Act
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Extended the regulatory powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission to telephone and telegraph
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Sixteenth Amendment
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Permitted Congress to levy taxes based on an individual's income
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff
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Bill proposed by Taft
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Richard Ballinger
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Taft's secretary of of the interior
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Ballinger-Pinchot affair
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Signaled Taft's weakness
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Joseph Cannon
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Speaker of the House
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George Norris
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Progressive from Nebraska
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Woodrow Wilson
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Governor or New Jersey who runs for President and wins
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New Freedom
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Program that made proposals to help small businesses.
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Eugene Debs
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From the Socialist party
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Federal Reserve Act
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Combined two views
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Clayton Antitrust Act
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Clarified the Sherman Act of 1890
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Federal Trade Commission
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Allowed to investigated corporations
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Adamson Act
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Won applause and prevented a strike from happening
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Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
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Outlawed interstate sale of products created through child labor.
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
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The leading suffrage movement in 1890
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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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NAWSA organizer
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Nineteenth Amendment
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Granted women full voting rights
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