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Clarence Darrow
an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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Urbanization
Going from Rural to Urban (of Cities and Towns) -
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Populism
a mode of political communication that is based on contrasts between the "common man" or "the people" and a real or imagined group of "privileged elites", traditionally scapegoating or making a folk devil of the latter. -
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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. -
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Recall
a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended. -
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17th Amendment
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William Jennings Bryan
Cross of gold speach -
Industrialization
the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. -
Monroe Doctrine
a United States policy of opposing European colonialism -
Indian Removal
signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Nativisim
the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Manifest Destiny
a widely held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America. -
Susan B. Anthony
an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
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. -
Robber Barons (Captains of Industry)
A derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich. -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Political Machines
a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. -
Immigration & the American Dream
the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there. To be free, Live Well, and Have Money. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago -
Dawes Act
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people (and richest Americans) ever. -
Ida B. Wells
an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. (led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s) -
Yellow Journalism
a US 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. -
Progressivism
the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America -
Social Gospel
a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ. -
Klondike Gold Rush
a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
Muckraker
The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
Theodore Roosevelt
an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
Dollar Diplomacy
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. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes -
Federal Reserve Act
established the Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the United States to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Jane Addams
known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
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. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
it became synonymous with government corruption and the scandals arising out of the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Since then, it has sometimes been used to symbolize the power and influence of oil companies in American politics. -
18th Amendment
established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
Upton Sinclair
an American writer who wrote nearly one hundred books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 -
Eugene V. Debs
Union Organizers/great railroad strike of 1984