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Susan B Anthony
an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Nativism
political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous people -
Political Machines
a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives,money or political jobs. -
Jane Addams
an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. -
Homestead Act
Provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. -
Ida B Wells
American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. -
W.E.B Dubois
an American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. -
Upton Sinclair
an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Prohibited immigrating Chinese laborers from america. -
Homestead Strike
industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. -
Klondike Gold rush
a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899. -
Initiative
a petition signed by a certain number of registered voters can force a government to choose either to enact a law or hold a public vote in the legislature. -
Muckracker
reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications. -
Referendum
a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. -
Recall
a power reserved to the voters that allows the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official. -
16th amendment
allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. -
18th amendment
outlawed the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
19th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.