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Ruthlessly powerful US capitalists or industrialists who were considered to have acquired their money by exploiting natural resources, corrupting legislators, or any other unethical means.
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The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel.
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A political group in which a boss commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses.
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Founded the National Woman Suffrage Association
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A movement led by a group of liberals against the problems in society that were caused by rapid industrialization.
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A term by Mark Twain to describe the time when many Industrialists acquired their wealth and lived lavish lifestyles by corrupt means.
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Created the telephone and founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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A protest that turned into a riot outside Chicagos Haymarket when someone threw a bomb at the police.
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A federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry.
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I house where volunteer workers lived hoping that they could help educate the poor.
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The first federal act that outlawed monopolistic businesses.
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Movements that were started because of peoples dissatisfaction with the government and its inability to deal effectively in addressing the problems.
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A reporter, social reformer, and photographer in the 1890s
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Started an anti-lynching campaign
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Organized the American Railway Union, which started a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago.
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Defended Eugene Debs when he was arrested for the pullman strike.
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Was a dominant force in the Democratic Party.
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A migration by 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Canada
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Three powers that allow voters to propose or repeal legislation or remove an elected official from office.
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Also known as the Patron Saint of Libraries because of how much money he donated to build libraries. The money he donated built a total of 2,509 libraries
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American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt
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Wrote the infamous book, The Jungle, that exposed the horrific secrets of the meat packing industry.
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Prevents the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors.
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A form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power.
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Had the idea of the three C's which were conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
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Allows the federal government to collect an income tax on all Americans
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Created and established the federal reserve system.
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Allowed us to vote for our senators.
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Banned the sale and drinking of alcohol.
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The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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Gives women the right to vote
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Where many tenements were demolished and replaced by apartment complexes for the many people that crowded the city.
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A briber scandal that involved president Warren G. Harding.
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Was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for founding the Hull House