Chapter 28 Key Terms

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Australian ballot

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A system that allows voters privacy in marking their ballot choices.

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Developed in Australia in the 1850's , introduced to the us during the progressive era to help counteract boss rule.Dillar

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Dollar diplomacy

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Name applied by president Taft critics to the policy of supporting u.s investments and political interests abroad.

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First applied to the financing of railways in China after 1909, the policy then spread to Haiti, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

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Elkins Act

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Law passed by congress to impose penalties on railroads that offered rebates and customers who accepted them. This law strengthened the interstate commerce act of 1887.

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Hetch hetchy valley

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The federal government allowed the city of San Francisco to build a dam here in 1913.

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Was a blow to preservationists, who wished to protect the Yosemite national park, where the dam was located

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Initiative

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A progressive reform measure allowing voters to petition to have a law placed on the general ballot.

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Like the referendum and recall, it brought democracy directly "to the people" and helped foster a shift toward interest group politics and away from old political "machines"

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Locker v New York

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A set back from labor reformers; this 1905 Supreme Court decision invalidated a state law establishing a ten hour day for bakers.

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It held that the right to free contract was implicit in the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment.

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Meat inspection act

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A law passed by congress to subject meat shipped over state lines to federal inspection.

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The book the jungle written by uptown Sinclair earlier that year with its description of conditions in slaughterhouses and meat packing plants mobilized public support for government action.

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Muckrakers

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Bright young reporters in the twienth century who won this unfavorable moniker from Theodore Roosevelt ,but boosted circulation of their magazines by writing exposes of widespread corruption in American society.

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Business manipulation of government ,white slavers, child labor , illegal deeds of trusts, help spur the passage of reform legislation

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Miller v orgeon

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A landmark supreme case in which crusading attorney

Louis d Brandeis persuaded the Supreme Court to accept the constitutionality of limiting the hours of women workers.

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Established the different standard for male and female workers

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Payne Aldrich bill

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While intended to lower tariff rates, this bill was eventually revised beyond all recognition, retaining high rates on most imports.

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Pure food and drug act

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A law passed by congress to inspect and regulate the labeling of all foods and pharmaceuticals intended for human consumption.

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Replaced now by more comprehensive food,drug, and cosmetic act of 1938

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Recall

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A progressive ballot procedure allowing voters to remove elected officials from office.

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Referendum

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A progressive reform procedure allowing voters to place a bill or on the ballot for final approval,even after being passed by legislature.

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Social Gospel

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A reform movement led by Protestant ministers who used religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor.

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Advocates of prohibition in the us found common cause with activists elsewhere especially in Britain.

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Woman's Christian Temporance Union

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Founded in 1874, this organization advocated for the prohibition of alcohol, using women's greater purity and morality as a rallying point.