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nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Manifest Destiny
Angry Americans were ready to rebel and take over Texas. -
Indian Removal
Anglo-Saxon Texans assert that Indians have to right to possession of texas Land. -
18th Amendament
1st prohibition law is passed in Maine. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan joined the women's rights and suffrage cause in 1845 and met with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -
The Homestead Acts
The Homestead Acts were several US federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost -
Suffrage
Women in the wyoming territorie was allowed to vote. -
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The Gilded Age
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Ida B. Wells
A train conductor orders Wells to give up her seat on the train. She refuses, and later sues the reilroad for illegal racial segregation. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Attends Republican National Convention -
Haymarket Riot
Chicago's Haymarket Square becomes a tiot after someone throws a bomb at police -
The Dawes Act
An Act to provide for the Allotment of Lands in Saveralty to Indians on the Various Reservations, "known as the Dawes Act, amphansized severalty, the treatment of Native American srather than as members of tribes. -
Third Parties Politics
The People's Party, also know as the "Populists", was a short-lived political party in the US estabilished during the Populist movement -
19th Amendment
In 1893, Colorado bacame the first state to ratify the Amendment. -
Eugene V. Debs - Debs Rebellion
A New York Times editorial called Debs "a lawbreaker at large, an enemy of the human race". Strikers fought by estabilishing boycotts of Pullman train cars, and with Debs' eventual leadership, the strike came to be knos as "DEBS REBELLION" -
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Klondike Gold Rush
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Populism & Progressivism
The Gold Standar Act is ratified, placing the US currency on the gold standard. -
Andrew Carnegie
Built and founded Carnegie Hall. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair goes into the factories to investigate th etreatment of the workers. -
Muckraker
Upton Sinclair published his most successful piece of muckraking, The Jungle, which exposed the inhuman working conditions and lack of sanitation within the meatpacking discrict. The outcry from the public forced President Teddy Roosevelt to put through legislation that would regulate the food industry: the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An Act fo rpreventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adultered or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
It's when citizens is able to make an iniative to say if the law is good, place a bill they want to pass on the ballot, and wants to remove a law via petition. -
Immigration & the American Dream
In 1907 immigration hit a peak and it had to be controlled. An act was passed that allowed few immigrants. This connects to the American Dream because people dreamed of living in America and American were dreaming of nativism and nationalism. -
Jane Addams
Addams co-founds the National Association fpr the Advancement of Colored People. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revelution. -
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve Act was an Act of Congress that created and set up the central banking system of the U.S. which is called Fedral Reserve System. Also it granted the legal authority to issue Federal Rserve Notes , which is now commonly known as U.S. Dollar,. The Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.
