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manifest destiny
was a widely held belief in the united states that american settlers were destined to expand to the west -
susam b. anthony
was a american social reformer who played a pivtovil in the woman suffage movement born into quaker family commited to social equality -
indian removal
is a passed law by congress during the presidetency of andrew jackson it authorized the president negotiate with inidan tribes in the southern united states for ther removal to ferderal territory west of the mississippi river in exchange for their homeland -
nativism
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eugene v.debbs
was a amerian union leader oe of the fouding members of the industrial wotkers of the world and the five times of canidate of the social party of america for president of the united states -
clarence darrow
was a american lawyer and a memeber of the amerian civil liberies union -
william jennings bryan
was a leading american politician from the 1890s to his death he was domient force in populist wing of the democratic party standing three times the party -
jane addams
was pioneer american settement soical worker public philsopher soicalogist author and leader in womens sufferage and world peace -
homestead act
was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (ncluding freed slaves and women, was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
ida b wells
was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement -
the gilded age
was a era of rapid economic growth especially in the north and west american wages especially for skilled workers were much higher than in europe whcih attarcted millions of immirgation -
andrew carnegie
Scottish immigrant
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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. -
upton sinclair
was an american author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres he achrived popularity in the first half of the twentieth century acquiring partiular fame for his classic muckraking novel -
sufferage
the right to vote in political elections -
haymarket riot
Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
klomdlike gold rush
Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, the Alaska-Yukon 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. -
muckraker
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. Muckraking magazines—notably McClure's of publisher S. S. McClure—took on corporate monopolies and crooked political machines while raising public awareness of chronic urban poverty, unsafe working conditions, and social issues like child labor. -
teddy roosevelt
was a american politican author,naturalist,soldier explorer and historian who served as the 26th president of the united states of america -
pure food and drug act
was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors. It required that active ingredients be placed on the label of a drug’s packaging and that drugs could -
16th amedment
allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. This amendment exempted income taxes from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes, after income taxes on rents, dividends, and interest were ruled to be direct taxes in the court case (1895). The amendment was adopted on February 3, 1913. -
ferderal reserve act
is an act of congress that creatd and set up the ferderal reserve system the central banking system of the united states of america and granted it the legal authority to issue ferderal reserve notes and ferderal reserve -
17th amendment
the united states established direct electron of the united states sentors by popular vote the amendment supersedes -
19th amendent
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18th amendent
of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession). The separate Volstead Act set down methods of enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, and defined which "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited, and which were excluded from prohibition (e.g., for medical and religious purposes). The Amendment was the first to set a t -
tea pot dome scandal
was a bribery incident that took place in the united states from 1920 to 1923 during the administartion of president warren g harding -
social gospel
movement is a protestant christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century united states and canada -
civil service reform
reforms to movement for the imporvement of the civil service methods of appointment rules of conduct relevant -
third parties politics
the term third party is used in the united states for any and all politcal parties in the united states other than one of the two major parties -
dollar diplomacy
