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Susan B. Anthony
American social reformer and feminist activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Monroe Doctrine
U.S. policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas . -
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century, richest person. -
Industrialization
Process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods -
Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
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Eugene V. Debs
American union leader, 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. -
Bessemer process
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
American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
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William Jennings Bryan
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. -
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Jane Addams
Pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
This act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
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Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
The Gilded Ages
The period that was glitted on the surface but corrupt underneath. -
Social Gospel
movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. -
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Upton Sinclair
American writer of nearly 100 books and other works across a number of 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. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populists focused on the economic system, Populism is socially conservative
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
First significant law restricting immigration into the United States passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Haymarket Act
Aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
This act authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Muckrakers
Journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in politics and business. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Gold was discovered in many rich deposits along the Klondike River causing a huge immigration. -
Yellow Journalism
Journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. -
Initiative, referendum, and recall
Three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
Robber baron
American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Preveted 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. -
Dollar Diplomacy
The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
16th Amendment
"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." -
Urbanization
The process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas. -
Nativism
Anti-immigration movement which favored those descended from the inhabitants of the original Thirteen Colonies. -
17th Amendment
Senators were elected by state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. -
18th Amendment
"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." -
Political Machines
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. -
19th Amendment
Guarantees all American women the right to vote. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Was characterized by scandal and corruption, the most controversial of which was the Teapot Dome oil scandal. -
Indian Removal Act
This act authored the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.