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40 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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which gave voters the power to elect their senators directly
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initiative
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gives voters the power to initiative, or introduce, legislation
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referendum
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is a companion to the initiative
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recall
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enables voters to remove an elected official from the office by calling for a special election
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Samuel M. Jones and Tom Johnson
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were self-made men who earned their fortunes 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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elected governor in 1900, La Follette vigorously backed a reform program
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Theodore Roosevelt
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1900 president McKinley ran for re-election with him as his running mate then he became president
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arbitration
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is the process by which two opposing sides allow a third party to settle a dispute
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Square Deal
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became Roosevelt's 1904 campaign slogan every man has no less no more
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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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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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Upton Sinclair
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published the jungle an explosive novel that depicted the wretched and unsanitary conditions at a meat packing plant
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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 again
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National Park Service
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help supervise the parks and monuments
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William Howard Taft
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Roosevelt's secretary of war
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Man-Elkins Act
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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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proposed in 1909 and ratified in 1913, the amendment permitted Congress to levy taxes based on an individual's income
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff
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high tariff measure signed by Taft an angered progressives
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Richard Ballinger
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Taft's secretary of war
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Ballinger-Pinchot affair
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signaled Taft's weakness on conservation
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Joseph Cannon
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a conservative republican
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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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aka Bull Moose Party after Roosevelt declared that he felt "as fit as a bull moose" to run
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Woodrow Wilson
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ran a platform calling for tariff reduction, banking reform, laws benefiting wage earners and farmers, and stronger antitrust legislation
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New Freedom
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program made proposals to help small businesses
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Eugene Debs
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another candidate for the socialist party
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Federal Reserve Act
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it created a three-tired banking system
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Clayton Antitrust Act
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this act clarified and extended the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act by clearly stating what corporations could not do
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Federal Trade Commission
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by congress in September 1914 was authorized to investigate corporations
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Adamson Act
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not only won applause from reformers but also prevented a strike
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Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
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in 1916 an act that outlawed the interstate sale of products produced by child labor
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
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first two presidents Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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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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NAWSA continued to use traditional political strategies to attain voting rights
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Nineteenth Amendment
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granting woman full voting rights
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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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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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