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Manifest Destiny
the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. -
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Susan B. Anthony
an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. -
Indian Removal
indian were moved to unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders -
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Andrew Carnegie
a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry -
Third Parties Politics
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). -
Political Machines
a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
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Eugene V. Debbs
an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States -
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Clarence Darrow
an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks -
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Teddy Roosevelt
an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States -
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William Jennings Bryan
a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States. -
Urbanization and Industrialization
a large numbers of people leave farms to work and live in cities. -
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Jane Addams
a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
Any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
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Ida B. Wells
an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
The Gilded Age
a period of rapid economic growth but also much social conflict. America's industrial economy exploded, generating unprecedented opportunities for individuals to build great fortunes but also leaving many farmers and workers struggling merely for survival. -
Social Gospel
a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life. -
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Upton Sinclair
an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle. -
Haymarket Riot
a square in Chicago: scene of a riot (Haymarket Riot) in 1886 between police and labor unionists. It first started of with a peacful protest demanding 8 hour shifts until a bombing occured in one of the buildings. -
The Dawes Act
The Act broke up previous land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservations, and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on. -
Initiative, Referendumm, Recall
a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. -
Klondike Gold Rush
A rush of thousands of people in the 1890s toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there. -
Popularism & Progressivism
• Populism came from the farmers and the poor sections of the society from down south while progressivism came from middle classes, who were fed up with the corruption of the rich and the appeasement of the poor by the government. -
Muckraker
Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1905 to expose labor abuses in the meat packing industry. But it was food, not labor, that most concerned the public. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
16th ,17th ,18th ,19th amendment
All four of the Progressive Era Amendments were ratified during his term in office.
Amendments
16th-Income taxes
17th-Senatorial elections
18th-Prohibition of liquor
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Federal Reserve Act
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
Women's Right to Vote. -
Nativeism
A sociopolitical policy, especially in the United States in the 19th century, favoring the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States. It was the most serious scandal in the country’s history prior to the Watergate affair of the Nixon administration in the 1970s. -
Immigration and the American Dream
Immigrant wanted to settle in america to seek freedom and oppertunities -
Immigration & the American Dream
Immigrants wanted to go to america to seek out freedom and oppertunities. -
Civil Service Reform
government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit.
