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Susan B. Anothony
becoming a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement. -
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Susan B. Anothony
becoming a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement. -
Indian Removal
policy of ethnic cleansing by the government of the United States to move Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. -
Manifest Destiny
widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Political Machines
organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses -
tivism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and leading member if the american civil liberties union -
Homestead Act
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
IdaB. wells
was an african-american journalist, newspapper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movment. -
The Glided Age
satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. -
Upton Sinclair
novelist and social crusader from california, who pioneered the kind of journalism known as muckraking. -
Haymarket Riot
aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration. -
The Dawes act
adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Jane Addamns
Founded one of the first settlements in the united staes, the Hull HOuse in Chicago, Illinois. -
WIlliam jennings bryan
Bryan worked to unite the Democrats and Populists in Nebraska, but later lost a bid for a Senate seat. Out of politics, Bryan became the editor of the Omaha World-Herald and traveled widely as a lecturer on the Chautauqua circuit. -
Klondike Gold Rush
migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
Recall
The first state to adopt the initiative was South Dakota in 1898. a procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office. -
Initiative
the ability to assess and initiate things independently. -
Eugene V. Debbs
was a labor organizer and the socialist party's canidate for U.S. prisendent five times between 1900 and 1920. -
Andrew Carnegie
steel tycoon who c=became one of the 20th centurys most famous philanthropists. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Became the 26th president after the assassination of Presendent william McKinley. -
Muckraker
refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism -
Pure Food And Drug Act
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. -
Dollar diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
16th amendment
16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
populism and progressivism
Populism is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions. Progressivism is a term that encompasses a wide spectrum of social movements that include environmentalism, labor, agrarianism, anti-poverty, peace, anti-racism, civil rights, women's rights, animal rights, -
17th amendment
allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
Suffrage
he right to vote in political elections. -
TeaPot Dome Scandal
surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall.a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
18th amendemnt
With great jubilation the dry forces ushered in this new era in American history called Prohibition. -
19 amendemnt
guarantees all American women the right to vote -
immigration and the american dream
with opportunity, a good job and home ownership. -
Social Gospel
movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Referemdum
a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. -
civil service reform
refers to movements for the improvement of the civil service in methods of appointment, rules of conduct, -
Third Parties Politics
the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties -
urbanization and industrialization
Urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization.
