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Susan B. Anthony
American social reformer who played a key role in the Women's Suffrage -
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Political Machines
in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
Indian Removal
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Andrew Carnegie
Led the massive expansion of the American steel industry -
Suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise –distinct from other rights to vote– is the right to vote gained through the democratic process. -
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Eugene V. Debs
American union leader, one of the founding memeber of the industrial worker of the world -
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Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
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William Jennings Bryan
He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party. -
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Jane Addams
A pionner American social worker, and leader in Women's suffrage and world peace -
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Homestead Act
movement that promoted the free ownership of land in the Midwest, Great Plains, and the West by people willing to settle on and cultivate it. -
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Ida B. Wells
Isa Bell Wells-Barnett was a American journalist, as well as a leader in the civil rights movement -
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The Glided Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe, which attracted millions of immigrants. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
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Upton Sinclair
a famous noelist and social crusader -
Haymarket Roit
was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square[2] in Chicago. -
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The Dawes Act
adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Gold was discovered there on August 16, 1896 and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors. -
Nativism
a term used by scholars to refer to ethnocentric beliefs relating to immigration and nationalism -
Third Parties Politics
In electoral politics, a third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals -
Muckraker
The term muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Served as the 26th President of the United States -
Pure Food and Drug Food
was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
foreign policy created by U.S. president William Howard Taft (served 1909–13) and his secretary of state, Philander C. Knox, to ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending American commercial and financial interests there. -
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16th,17th,18th,19th Amendents
rights for the people giving many people equality and divides power between congress and helping making the U.S better. -
Federal Reserve Act
is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
Social Gospel
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
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Teapot Dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the reign of President Warren G. Harding. -
Immigrantion & the American Dream
The American Dream is a national ethos of the united states, its freedom -
civil service
applies to labor organizations which represents employees in most agencies of the executive branch of the Federal Government. -
Initiative & Referendum
tax-exempt educational and research organization dedicated to the study of the I&R process.
