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38 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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Policy allowing voter to introduce new legislation.
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referendum
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Produce allowing citizens to force the legislature a place a recently passed law on the ballot for public approval
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recall
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Produce enabling voters to remove an official from office by calling for a special election.
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Samuel M. Jones
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His nickname came from his belief in the biblical Golden Rule; self made up men who earned their fortunes early in life.
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Tom Johnson
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Self made men who earned their fortunes early in life.
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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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Robert M. La Follette's reform program for Wisconsin in the early 1900's; became a model for other state gov.
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Teddy Roosevelt
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McKinley ran with this guy for re-election as his running mate
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Square Deal
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Roosevelts 1904 campaign slogan
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Elkins Act
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Forbade shipping companies from accepting rebates, or money given back in return for business.
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Upton Sinclair
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He published The Jungle, and explosive novel that depicted the wretched and unsanitary conditions at a meatpacking plant.
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Meat Inspections Act
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Federal law that required government inspection of meat shipped across state lines.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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Law that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food and patented medicine containing harmful ingredients; also required food and medicine containers to carry ingredients labels.
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Gifford Pinchot
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A stron conservationist, forester, and a fried 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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A federal agency established in 1916 to help supervise national parks and monuments
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William Howard Taft
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he won the nomination on the first ballot. He is so fat he got stuck in his bathtub
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Mann-Elkins Act
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Federal law that extended the regulatory powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission to telephone and telegraph companies.
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Sixteenth Amendment
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Constitutional amendment that permitted Congress to levy income taxes
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff
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Hight tariff measure signed by President William Howard Taft; angered progressives.
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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 in which President William fired Gifford Pinchot as head of the U.S. Forestry Sevice for criticizing Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger's approval of the sale of Alaskan land; weakened support for Taft
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George Norris
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a progressive from Nebraska, began an effort to break Cannon's power
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Progressive party
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Bull Moose Party; reform party that ran Theodor Roosevelt for president in 1912
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Woodrow Wilson
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He ran on a platform calling for tariff reduction, banking reform, law benefiting wage earners and farmers, and stronger antitrust legislation.
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New Freedom
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President Woodrow Wilson's progressive reform program; proposed during the 1912 presidential election
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Eugene Debs
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He won more than 900,000 popular voters but no electoral voters.
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Federal Reserve Act
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Act that created a notional banking system to help the government control the economy
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Clayton Antitrust act
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Law that clarified and strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act by clearly defining what a monopoly or trust was.
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Federal Trade Commission
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Commission established in 1914 to investigate corporation and to try to keep them from conducting unfair trade practices.
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Adamson Act
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Federal reducing the workday for railroad workers from 10 to 8 hours with no cut in pay.
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Keating-Owen child labor act
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Law that outlawed the interste sale of products produced by child labor; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1918
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
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Group formed in 1890 to win the note for women
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Alice Paul
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a militant young Quaker suffragist, broke away from NAWSA
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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Leader of of NAWSA, continued to use traditional political strategies to attain voting rights.
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Nineteenth Amendment
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granted women full voting rights, was ratified in 1920
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