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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 machine
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. -
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. -
Urbanization & Industrialization
factories started mass producing things -
Civil Service Reform
food places started to be cleaner because the quality was questioned -
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 -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was one of the ;eaders in freeing the slaves and giving woman the right to vote. She actually got the 19th amendment nicknamed after her. -
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." -
Eugene V. Debs
elected to the Indiana State Assembly with broad support from Terre Haute’s workers and businessmen -
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. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a steel company owner that was vary successful because he maximized income and minimized waste. -
Ida B. Wells
She recorded all the lynchings, and she was an active supporter in womans rights. -
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 -
Teddy Roosevelt
He was elected the 26th presedent. -
dollar diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
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16th amendment
allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census -
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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. -
William Jennings Bryan
united statessecritary of state, that wanted to make the poor rich by making silver free. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton sinclair influenced the first restriction on jornalism by writing "The Brass Check." -
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18th amendment
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been -
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19th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Clarence Darrow
He was a white lawyer that faught for blacks in alot of big cases. -
Jane Addams
Jane adams was a co-winner of the nobel peace prize.she was mostly known for her feminist belifes. -
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 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. -
The dawes Act
broke up previous land agreements
