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Nativism
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Suffrage
Suffrage is the right to vote gained through the democratic process. -
Susan B. Anthony
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Indian Removal
Indian Removal by the government of the United States to move Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. -
Indian Removal
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Civil Service Reform
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Andrew Carnegie
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Eugene V. Debbs
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Clarence Darrow
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Political Machines
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Teddy Roosevelt
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William Jennings Bryan
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Jane Addams
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Homestead Act
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Homestead Act
Was signed by President Abraham Lincoln; This law means anyone who took up arms against U.S. was 21 years old or older or the head of the family could file for a land grant. -
Ida B. Wells
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Social Gospel
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The Gilded Age
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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny idely held belief in the United States that American settlers -
Upton Sinclair
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Haymarket Riot
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The Dawes Act
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The Dawes Act
This act allowed the President to survey the native's land and divide it into reservations so that most of it could be used for new American settlers. -
Klondike Gold Rush
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Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush, also known as Yukon Gold Rush, the Canadian Gold was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors. -
Muckraker
Muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption -
Third Parties Politics
Third Parties Politics any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals -
Dollar Diplomacy
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Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative, Referendum, Recall is a process that allows citizens of many U.S. states -
Pure Food and Drug Act
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Pure Food and Drug Act
it was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt. It was established to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of audulterated or misbranded or poisonous or delerious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating trafic therein, and for other purposes. -
16th Amendment
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17th Amendment
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Federal Reserve Act
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Social Gospel
Social Gospel is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent -
18th Amendment
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
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19th Amendment
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Teapot Dome scandal
Teapot Dome scandal bribery incident that took place in the United States -
Federal Reserve Act
is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve notes
