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Political Machines
A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and business, who receive awards for their efforts -
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Urbanization
Urbanization occurs when the population shifts fro rural to urban areas. With the advent of innovative agricultural technologies and industrialization -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants -
Susan B. Anthony
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Indian Removal
All native americans were forcefully removed from their homes, Andrew jackson sent troops to round them up -
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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude during the westward expansion in the 1900's -
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the steel company -
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Eugene v. Debbs
an american union leader and one of the founding leaders of the IWW . -
Bessemer Process
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace -
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Clarence Darrow
Darrow was an American lawyer and was one of the leading members of the American Civil Liberties Union -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt established the pure food and drug act and the meat inspection act. Elected president in 1901 -
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William Jennings Bryan
He was in lots of causes including peace, women's suffrage, prohibition, and christian fundamentalism -
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Jane Adams
Mrs. Adams co-founded settlements in the united states. She also served as the first female president of the national conference of social work -
Homestead Act
This act contributed to westward expansion. It granted 160 acres of land to women and men -
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Ida B. Wells
Founding member of the NAACP. She was an anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, womens rights advocate, journalist, and speaker -
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The Gilded Age
Greed and political corruption is what this era consisted of -
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Industrialization
The industrialism in the US introduced us improved production methods. It gave us the development of new products, a growing population. -
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Social Gospel
religious social-reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920 -
Upton Sinclair
A novelist whose writing reflected the socialistic views -
Populism & Progressivism
The populist movement started during the 1880's. Farmers created their own party by uniting and they became the populist party. MIddle class started in the early 1900's by the middle class people and well-educated people. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration -
Haymarket Riot
a labor protest near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a rally after someone threw a bomb at the police. 8 people died -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act was important for tribal life because it reduced the tribes ability to live in their ways. -
Robber Barons (Captains of Industry)
"Robber baron" is a derogatory term used for some powerful nineteenth-century American businessmen. Robber barons were contrasted with "captains of industry," a term originally used in the United Kingdom during the Industrial Revolution describing a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way -
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Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. This style of writing helped push the U.S and Cuba into war in Cuba -
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Klondike Gold Rush
A migration of an estimated 100,000 prospectors to Yukon in northern canada -
Immigration & the American Dream
Immigrants is associate to to the American dream . The united states offered more opportunity. -
Suffrage
Suffrage is the right to vote in public elections. Womens suffrage was fought for in the 1900's -
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Dollar Diplomacy
President Taft influenced latin americas and asia and guaranteed them loans -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Processes that allow the citizens to vote on particular pieces of the legislation -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This protected the adulteration of of food -
Muckraker
The term muckraker was in the progressive era to characterize reform-minded american journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines. -
16th Amendment
A law that allows the federal government to levy a tax form all americans -
17th Amendments
It allowed the people of each state to elect their representative in the US -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Act was enacted in response to a series of financial crises that occurs. -
18th Amendment
Outlawed alcohol -
19th Amendment
provides both men and women with voting rights -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome scandal became one of the biggest scandals of its times. It was a bribery scandal -
Monroe Doctrine
a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.