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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 Untied 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 reservations, and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on. -
Ida B. Wells
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
organizations in which authouritive boss or small group comands the suport of a corps -
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immigration and american dream
people were immigrating to the US for a better life. (american dream) -
Nativism
Nativist movements included the Know Nothing or American Party of the 1850s, the Immigration 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 -
Clarence Darrow timeline
Darrow wrote a short article titled “Women” in which he criticized discrimination against women. -
William Jennings Bryan
Elected U.S. Congressmen -
Andrew Canegie
In 1892, his primary holdings were consolidated to form Carnegie Steel Company. -
suffrage
to have the right to vote.
(1893 when all women and men can vote) -
Klondike gold rush
Was a migration by an estimated 100,000 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 becomes the vice president the National Women's trade Union League. -
Social Gospel
The movement applied Christian beliefs to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, and crime. -
Upton 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 transportation of misbranded or poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors for other purposes. -
dollar diplomacy
the use of a contries financial power to extend its international influences -
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16,17,18,19 amendments
The significance of these four amendements changed american society by giving women and minorities the right to vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
Was an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System -
Eugene V. Debs
June 16, 1918—Debs made his famous anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting World War I 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. -
Teapot dome scandal
Albert 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 sevice commision.
