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16th Amendments
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration -
18th Amendment
established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegally -
Urbanization
the process where an increasing percentage of a population lives in industrialized and modernized cities and suburbs. -
Andrew Carnegie
An American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry -
Manifest Destiny
belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents -
Eugene V. Debs
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 -
Clarence Darrow
a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform -
William Jennings Bryan
was an American orator and politician from Nebraska who emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States -
Homestead Act
A law passed in the 1860s that offered up to 160 acres of public land to any head of a family who paid a registration fee, lived on the land for five years, and cultivated it or built on it -
The Gilded Age
the time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings and many wealthy people lived very fancy lives -
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 -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
first significant law restricting Chinese labor immigration into the United States -
Immigration & the American Dream
Anyone can come to the united states and live well and be successful -
Haymarket Riot
a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police -
Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing -
Jane Addams
An advocate of immigrants, the poor, women, and peace and also founder of the first settlement house in the United States -
Ida B. Wells
led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s, and went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice -
Susan B. Anthony
was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement -
Populism
a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite -
Klondike Gold Rush
was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting in the Klondike near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered -
Initiative & Referendum
allow citizens of many U.S. states to place new legislation on a popular ballot, or to place legislation that has recently been passed by a legislature on a ballot for a popular vote -
Yellow Journalism
term for a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was the youngest president who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. known as the great “trust buster” he broke up industrial combinations under the Sherman Antitrust Act -
Upton Sinclair
Wrote a novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
Pure Food & Drug Act
a law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade -
Dollar Diplomacy
was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries
