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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 who receive rewards for their efforts -
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nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants -
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indian removal
Indian removal was a policy of the United States government in the 19th century where Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River, thereafter known as Indian Territory. -
muckraker
to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics. Origin of muckrake Expand. 1675-1685. 1675-85; obsolete muck rake a rake for use on muck or dung. -
susan b anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
andrew carnegie
An american industrialist who owned a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. Andrew worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before going to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859 -
manifest destiny
belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable -
industrialization
industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one involving the extensive re-organization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. -
urbanization
Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. -
eugene v. dubbs
Socialist, presidential candidate & war opponent. Debs became active in the labor movement in the 1870s and created the American Railway Union an industrial union in 1893 -
clarence darrow
In 1925 when he volunteered to defend John Scopes right to teach evolution Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before in a sensational trial in Chicago he saved the child-killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb from the death penalty -
theodore roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly became the 26th president of the U.S in September 1901. He brought a new energy to the White House and won a second term on his own merits in 1904 -
william jennings bryan
became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley. -
jane addams
Jane Addams was an advocate of immigrants, the poor, women, and peace. wrote numerous articles and books, she discovered the first settlement house in the U.S. her best known book is Twenty Years at Hull House it was about the time she spent at the settlement house. -
homestead act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land -
ida b. wells
daughter of slaves , A journalist, Wells led an anti-lynching crusade in the U.S in the 1890s and went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
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the gilded age
The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 30s and was started from writer Mark Twain's 1873 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding -
populism and progressivism
The populist movement started during the 1880's Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. Farmers become united to protect their interests. They even created a major political party -
civil service reform
is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
haymarket riot
was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
dawes act
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
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klondike 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. -
dollar diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
initiative and referendum
the process of initiatives and referendums allow citizens of many U.S. states to place new legislation on a popular ballot or to place legislation that has recently been passed by a legislature on a ballot for a popular vote -
pure food and drug act
An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
16th amendment
Passed by Congress July 2, 1909 and ratified February 3, 1913. 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 popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. the Constitution under which senators were elected by state legislatures. -
federal reserve act
is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes which is now the us dollar -
suffrage
the right to vote in political elections -
19th amendment
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. -
18th amendment
which began the Prohibition era with the outlawing of alcohol, opened the doors to organized crime during the 1920s,overwhelming law enforcement prior to the amendment's repeal in 1933. This was the only American constitutional amendment to be repealed in its entirety -
teapot dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
immigration and the american dream
"life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of -
upton sinclair
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the bad working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. -
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
