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16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments.
The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy income tax.
The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by voting.
The 18th Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the US.
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. -
Andrew Carnegie, Jane Addams, Teddy Roosevelt.
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is one of the richest people ever.
Jane Addams, known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President. -
Eugene V. Debs, Upton Sinclair, Susan B. Anthony.
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President in the US.
Upton Sinclair Jr. was an American writer who wrote nearly one hundred books and other works in several genres. And the first half of the 20th century.
Susan B Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role into women's suffrage movement. -
Homestead Act, The Dawes Act, Haymarket Riot.
The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing and were required to complete five years.
The Dawes Act of 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Homestead Act, The Dawes Act, Haymarket Riot.
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.
The Dawes Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land.
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Pure Food and Drug Act, Muckraker, Klondike Gold Rush.
P.F.A.D.A, for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation a adulterated or misbranded or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein.
The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the region of Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Teapot Dome Scandal, Federal Reserve Act, William Jennings Bryan.
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability in the United States through the introduction of the Central Bank.
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party.
