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| what is a direct primary? |
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| a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office. |
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| is the policy of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson which promoted antitrust modification, tariff revision, and reform in banking and currency matters. |
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| journalist who uncovers wrong doing in politics or business. |
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| a process in which citizen's can put a proposed new law directly on the ballot in the next election by collecting voter's signatures on a ballot. |
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| system that gives cities a limited degree of self rule |
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| court order prohibiting a certain activity. |
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| procedure that admits voters' to remove public officials from office before the next election. |
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| what is a social welfare program? |
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| it's designed to ensure a basic standard of living for all citizens. |
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| most progressives agreed that the government should... |
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| protect worker and help the poor |
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| president Wilson established the federal reserve system should do what? |
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| reorganize the federal banking system |
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| restricting the power of political machines was usually left to whom? |
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| opposing political machines,the press, and the voters. |
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| which belief was held by most progressives? |
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| the governments should be more accountable to it's citizens. |
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| how did Woodrow Wilson's reform platform during the 1912 campaign differ from that of Theodore Roosevelt? |
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| Wilson promised to preserve free competition |
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| in 1906, where Upton Sinclair's novel entitled The Jungle exposed dangerous workplace conditions? |
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| in the meat packing industry. |
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| journalists known as muckrakers worked at doing what? |
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| exposing political and business corruption |
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| one way reformers hoped to end corruption in the government was to do what? |
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| Roosevelt vigorously enforced what? |
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| the Sherman Antitrust Act |
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| The new Labor Department supported legislation that would benefit? |
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| During the Progressive Era many states? |
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| the Clayton antitrust act was especially favored by whom? |
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| As a measure to prevent bank failures, President Wilson helped create the |
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| The progressive movement focused mainly on the problems of what? |
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| The anti-suffrage movement argued that if women could vote, they would... |
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| threaten the stability of American society and government |
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