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Immigration and The American Dream
The American Dream was to live a good life have a good job and own a house. While allowing immigrants to assume a fully american identity. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
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19th Amendments
Constitution granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. -
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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. -
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Yellow Journalism
Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. -
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Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
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Industrialization
The period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one, involving the extensive reorganization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. -
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Robber Barons
Term "robber baron" contrasted with the term "captain of industry," which described industrialists who also benefitted society. Nineteenth-century robber barons included J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W. Mellon, and John D. Rockefeller. -
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Urbanization
Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. -
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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. -
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Federal Reserve Act
Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes -
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Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. -
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17th Amendments
When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. -
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Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. Proponents of an initiative, referendum, or recall effort must apply for an official petition serial number from the Town Clerk. -
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Indian Removal
A policy of the United States government in the 19th century whereby Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River, thereafter known as Indian Territory. -
Bessemer Process
A steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort. -
Monroe Doctrine
A principle of US policy, originated by President James monroe that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americans is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
Manifest Destiny
That god gave the right for the us to expand west. -
William Jennings Bryan
An American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew invested $40,000 in a oil company, which was booming at a massive level at the time, quickly moving him up to the several hundred thousand dollar range and allowing him to move himself forward in the economy. -
The Gilded Age
Mark Twain's 1873 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
Populism and Progressivism
The populist movement started during the 1880's. Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. Farmers become united to protect their interests. They even created a major political party. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
It was 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. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Haymarket Riot
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration 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. -
Jane Addams
A women's activist and lead women's suffrage. She settled the first settlement house in the united states in 1889 and is recognized as a member of the American pragmatism school. She also became the first american women to be awarded the Nobel peace prize. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Theodore Roosevelt
A explorer, author, and soldier. He was the 26th President of the United States, and he served as president from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was a leader of the republican party and was a driving force in the progressive era for the U.S. -
Muckraker
Muckrakers were people who exposed corruption in politics and other things and were journalists/authors. -
16th Amendment
The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes no incomes, from whatever source derived without apportionment among the several states and regard to any census or enumeration. -
Eugene V. Debs
A union leader and one of the founding members of the IWW. Eugene also was a candidate for the Socialist party of America several times and eventually became one of the best known socialists in America. Eugene was also known for his vocal protests against the war which actually led to him being arrested in 1918. -
18th Amendment
Declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Upton Sinclair
An American author with almost 100 titles under his belt. Also a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1943, Upton gained fame throughout his career and is well known for his writings of an Industrialized America from the viewpoint of the working man.