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Immigration & The American Dream
Lots of slaves from all over the world were brought here. Many Immigrated here in search of the American dream thinking its the good life -
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. This is caused by job rushes and event such as the Gold Rush -
Political Machines
is 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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Susan B Anothony
was an American social reformer and women's rights advocate who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement -
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Andrew Carnegie
a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
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Manifest Destiny
doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. Basically also America raided a lot of land from other countries soon paying for them out of deity. -
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Eugene V. Debbs
was an 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 -
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Clarence Darrow
was an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
was an 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
was 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. -
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Jane Addams
was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace -
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. -
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Ida B Wells
was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
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Upton Sinclair
was an 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 & Progressivism
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 Exclusive Act
This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. For the first time, Federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities. -
Dawes Act
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. This took land from Indians and was also in effect because of manifest destiny -
Yellow Journalism
journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. This was often used against other races and and attacks on certain people. -
Dollar Diplomacy
he 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. -
18th Amendment
banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages. Known as national Prohibition, the Eighteenth Amendment banned “intoxicating liquors” with the exception of those used for religious rites.