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Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Homestead Act
Opened up settlement in the western part of the United States. -
Gilded Age
An era of serious social problems masked by a thin Gold Gilding. -
Dawes Act
The Act broke up previous land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservation, and separated thm into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on. -
Ida B.∑ells
Ida Wells wins her case in the lower courts, and is granted a settlement for illegal racial segregation. -
Haymarket Riot
Was a bombing that happened at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Political Machine
Oranization in which authouritive boss or small groups comands the suport of a corps. -
Nativism
Nativist movements included the Know Nothing and American party of the 1850s, the Immigrantion Restriction league of the 1890s, the anti-Asian movements in the West, resulting in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907. -
William Jennings Bryan
Elected U.S. Congressmen -
Suffrage
To have the right to vote (1893 when all women and men can vote) -
Klondike Gold Rush
Was a migration by an estimated 100,00 prospectors in search for gold. -
Muckraker
Refers to Journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Elected into office. -
Jane Addams
She became the Vice President of the National Women's Trade Union League. -
Social Gospel
The movemnet applies Chistian beliefs to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, and crime. -
Uptom Sinclair
Wrote the book "the judge" a story that about the meat industry and how everything in Chicago. -
Susan B. Anthony
Gave her famous speech " Failure is impossible" -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This Act was for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportantion of misbranded or poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors for the purposes. -
Dollar diplomacy
the use of a countries financial power to extend its international influences -
Federal Reserve Act
Was an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System -
Eugen V. Debs
Made his famous anti war speech in Canton, Ohio, Protesting WW1 which was raging in Europe. For this speech he was arrested and convicted in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the war-time espionage law. -
Andrew Carnegie
A Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Alebert B. Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Civil Service Reform
Federal law that abolished the U.S. civil service commision. -
Clarence Darrow
Darrow wrote a short article titled "Women" in which he criticized discrimination against woman.