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25 Cards in this Set
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a process by which citizens prosper legislation or constitutional amendments
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initiative
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a system whereby party members choose their parts canidates for public office
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primary system
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a tax that assigns higher tax rates to ppl with highre income
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progressive tax
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a ban on the manufactoring and sald of alcoholic beverages
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prohibition
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the procedure by which a public official may be voted out of office by the next election.
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recall
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a process by which the people vote directly on proposed legislative.
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referandum
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the right to vote
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suffrage
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a law passed in 1914 tha strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act by defining unfair business practices.
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Clayton Antitrust Act
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the law passed in1913 establishing the Federal reserve Bank system
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Federal reserve act
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a comminsion created by congress in 1914 ti ensure that corporations obey antitrust laws
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Federal trade Commission
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. An organization established in 1909 to secure the legal rights of black Americans
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NAACP
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a 1902 law permitting the use of preceeds from the sale of federal lands in the West to build dams and irrigation projects.
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National Reclamation Act
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the Federal inspection of meat companies
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Meat Inspection Act
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a 1913 law that lowered tariffs on hundreds of items
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Underwood Tariff
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a Latin American dictator
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Caudillo
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an 1850 agreement between the US and Britian in which the 2 nations agreed that any central American canal would be politically neutral
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
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a policy of the US begun under president Taft that aimed to encourage American investment in Latin America
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dollar diplomacy
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the 1901 agreement between the US and Britian which granted the US the sole right ot build a canal in Central America
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HAy-Pauncefote Treaty
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a 1904 corolary to the Monroe Doctrine in which the US claimed the right to intervine in the affairs of the other nations of the Western Hemisphere
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Roosevelt Corollary
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a statement issued by Great Britian in 1917 supporting the establishment of a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine
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Balfour Declaration
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the World War I alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungry and the Ottoman Empire
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Cental Powers
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an organization of nations established at the end of World War I to maintain world stability
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League of Nations
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the 1918 treaty between Germany and russia that took Russia out of World Was I and gave much of its western territory to Germany
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Treaty of Brest
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the peace agreement that formally ended World War I
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treaty of Versailles
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a secret message sent to Mexico in 1917 by the German Foreign minister, proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico if Germany and the US went to war.
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Zimmermann note
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