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38 Cards in this Set
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Direct primary
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A nomination 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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Initiation
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Gives voters the power to initiate, or introduce, legislation
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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 by calling for a special election
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Samuel M.jones
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Self-made men who earnedhid fortunes early in his life "golden rule"
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Tom Johnson
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Earned his 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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Became a modal for other states
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Mckkenly
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Square deal
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Roosevelts campaign Slogen
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Elkins act
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Forbade sipping compain from excepting rebates, or money given back I. Return for business
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Hepburn act
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Authorized the icc
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Upton Sinclair
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Published the jungle Noval depicted the wreched and unsanitary conditions at meatpackaging plants
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Gifford Pinchot
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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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To help 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 ans telegraph companies
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Sixteenth amendment
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Permitted congress to levy taxes based on an individual income
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Payne-Aldrich tariff
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Betrayed the reform Cause
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Richard ballinger
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Tafts secretary of interior
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BallingerTafts Pinchot affair
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Tafts weakness on conservation
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Joseph cannon
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Conservative republican
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George norris
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Began an effort to break cannons power
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Progessive party
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Bull moose party
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Woodrow party
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Ran on a platform calling for tariff reduction, banking reform, laws benefiting wage earners and farmers, and strong antitrust legislation
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New freedom
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Made proposals to help small businesses
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Eugene debs
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Socialist party canidant
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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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Clarified and extended the 1890 Sherman antitrust act
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Federal trade commission
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Authorized to investigate corporations
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Adamson act
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Prevented a strike
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Keating-Owen child Labor
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Outlawed the interstate sale of products produced by child labor
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National American Women Suffrage Association
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Press for voting rights for women
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Alice Paul
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A militant young Quaker sufferage
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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Leader of NAWSA
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Nineteenth Amendment
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Granted women full voting rights
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