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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. -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
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 (or, in the context of an impending election, is considered highly unlikely to do so). The distinction is particularly significant in two-party systems. -
political machines
A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Susan B. Anthony
American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She also collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17 -
Indian Removal
It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Andrew Carnegie
American steel industry in the late 19th century -
Eugene V. Debbs
one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
William Jennings Bryan
eading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party -
Jane Addams
pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
homestead Act
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Ida B. Wells
She was a African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement -
populism and progressivism
progressivism
the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society
populism
the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age, which spanned the final three decades of the nineteenth century, was one of the most dynamic, contentious, and volatile periods in American history. -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
Upton Sinclair
American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. -
Civil Service Reform Act
The Civil Service Reform Act is an 1883 federal law that abolished the United States Civil Service Commission. It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called "spoils system." -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United State -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) refers to the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day. -
Klondike Gold Rush
the Canadian Gold Rush, and the Last Great Gold Rush, was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899 -
Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
16th Amendment's
16th Amendment authorized Congress to levy an income tax -
federal reserve act
The 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. -
17th amendment
17th Amendment gave the power to elect senators to the people. -
Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. -
Suffrage
the right to vote in political elections. -
18th admendment
18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. -
19th amendment
19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. -
Tea Pot Dome Scanda
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Immigration & the American Dream
a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard wor -
The americna dream
a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
allows the people (5% of voters in the last gubernatorial election) to bypass the legislators and propose a new statute, ordinance, or constitutional amendment to be placed on the ballot for popular vote of its adoption.
allows voters to approve or reject statutes or constitutional amendments passed by the legislative.
i. 5% of voters in last gubernatorial election w/ 90 day period to file.
allows voters to choose to recall an elected official before their term expires, requiring only the signat -
The dawes Act
Simply put, the Act broke up previous land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservations, and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on.
