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| If a country holds a referendum on a particular policy, they ask the people to vote on the policy and show whether or not they agree with it |
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| An initiative is an important act or statement that is intended to solve a problem |
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| If you are recalled to your home, country, or the place where you work, you are ordered to return there. |
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| Payment in lieu of wages lost or compensation for personal injury sustained as a result of accidents in the course of employment, ie, received at work or travelling to or from work. |
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| a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office |
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| any tax in which the rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increases |
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| Tax reform is the process of changing the way taxes are collected or managed by the government |
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| How did schools change because of John Dewey's reforms ? |
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| Dewey was a relentless campaigner for reform of education, pointing out that the authoritarian, strict, pre-ordained knowledge approach of modern traditional education was too concerned with delivering knowledge, and not enough with understanding students' actual experiences |
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| How did the Gilded Age get its name ? Why was it considered Gilded ? What does the word Gilded mean? |
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| The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. The wealth polarization derived primarily from industrial and population expansion. |
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| What was the Wisconsin idea ? who was the largest supporter of it ? |
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| First attributed to UW President Charles Van Hise in 1904, the Wisconsin Idea is the principle that education should influence and improve people’s lives beyond the university classroom.The Wisconsin Idea has also fostered a long partnership between the University and government. |
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| What is a muckraker ? who were the three leading muckrakers ? what were the titles of their book ? what were the books about ? |
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| Muckrakers are journalists who "rake up" & expose corruption and problem of society. The three leading muckrakers were Lincoln Seffens , "McClure's Magazine" was about exposing corruption in the city government, Ida Tarbell articals critcizing the unfair business pratices of the standard oil company", Upton Sinclair "The Jungle" |
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| what were the two laws past because of Upton Sinclair ? |
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The Meat Inspection Act .
It required inspectioons of animals before slaughter , created standards for industary , continued inspections of slaughtered houses and animals
Second act was the Food & Drug Act .
It tests safety of food and drugsrequirement for prescriptions from licenced physicans before a pattern could purchase certain drugs , require a label warnings on habit forming drugs . |
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