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U.S history exam: chapter 11
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11th Grade
11/10/2012

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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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what is new freedom?
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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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what are muckrakers?
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journalist who uncovers wrong doing in politics or business.
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what is an initiative?
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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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what is a home rule?
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system that gives cities a limited degree of self rule
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what is a injunction?
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court order prohibiting a certain activity.
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what is a recall?
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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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establish an income tax.
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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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woman and children
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During the Progressive Era many states?
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abolish child labor
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the Clayton antitrust act was especially favored by whom?
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labor unions
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As a measure to prevent bank failures, President Wilson helped create the
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Federal Reserve System
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The progressive movement focused mainly on the problems of what?
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urban (city) residents
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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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