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| Initiative | an objective of political progressivism; so voters could directly propose legislation, bypassing state legislatures |
| Referendum | an objective of political progressivism; says to place laws on ballot for final approval by the people |
| Recall | enables voters to remove elected officials, primarily those that had been bribed |
| Conservation | The Desert Land Act of 1877, Forest Reserve Act of 1891, The Carey Act of 1894; Roosevelt put all his effort into conservation, especially of the forests |
| Rule of Reason | in 1890, a doctrine that said that only those combinations that “unreasonably” restrained trade were illegal |
| Muckrackers | the name Roosevelt gave to the newspapers and writers that competed for the most exposing headlines; he compared them to dirt-diggers |
| 17th Amendment | said that senators should be elected by popular vote |
| 18th Amendment | said that the sale or manufacture of alcohol was forbidden (prohibition) |
| Elkins Act | heavy fines could be imposed on the railroads that gave rebates and on the shippers that accepted them |
| Hepburn Act | free passes that hinted bribery were severely restricted |
| Northern Securities | Case Supreme Court ordered Roosevelts antitrust suit and ordered the Northern Securities Company to be dissolved.enhanced Roosevelts reputation |
| Meat Inspection Act | decreed that the preparation of meat shipped overstate lines would be subject to federal inspection |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals |
| Desert Land Act | the federal government sold arid land cheaply on the condition that the purchaser irrigate the soil with in three years |
| Forest Reserve Act | authorized the president to set aside public forests and national parks and other reserves |
| Carey Act | gave federal land to the states under the condition that it be irrigated and settled on |
| New lands Act | Washington was authorized to collect money from the sale of public lands in the western states and then use these funds for the development of irrigation products |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Washington encouraged Wall Street bankers to slice their surplus dollas into foreign areas of strategic concern to the US especially in the far west and in the regions critical to the security of the Panama Canal |
| Payne-Aldrich Act | a betrayal of Aldrichs campaign promise of tariff revision |
| Ballinger-Pinchot Affair | opened public lands in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska to corporate development. |
| Old Guard | Republican wing of the reformist party |
