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Urbanization
Urbanization is the movement of people from the countryside to towns and cities. Led to physical changes to landscape as the trees and fields were replaced by wood and brick buildings and paved roads.
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Susan B. Anthony
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony tried to vote claiming she had the right as an American citizen, as well as under the Fourteenth Amendment, but was declined by a judge. By 1890, failure to get women’s suffrage, several women’s group came together and made the National Woman Suffrage Association, under leadership of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine stopped Europeans from making new colonies in the Western Hemisphere. In the late late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the American government extended the Monroe Doctrine in the Caribbean to protect America’s economic interest
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Indian Removal Act
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Nativism
The nativist, born or native to the US, wanted restricted immigration, thinking that the “New Immigrants” would be inferior, because of their other races, religions, and nationalities. As well as arguing that immigrants working for low wages would take away jobs from other Americans.
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Andrew Carnegie
In 1892, Carnegie founded the Carnegie Steel Corporation after the Civil War when he invested in ironworks and built a steel mill in Pittsburgh that sold iron and steel to railroad companies. Later in his life was spent in philanthropy, giving away millions to build libraries and endow universities.
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Social Gospal
In the late nineteenth century this new social movement was made by Protestant clergymen. This movement included the abolishment of child labor and safer working conditions, objected harsh realities of unregulated fee enterprise. Groups like the Salvation Army were made to emphasize Christian Duty and help the less fortunate. Also strongly supported the Temperance Movement, which aimed to ban alcoholic beverages.
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Eugene V. Debbs
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Clarence Darrow
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Theodore Roosevelt
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William Jennings Bryan
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Jane Addams
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Homestead Act
The Homestead Act encouraged western migration and gave land to settlers, in exchange the homesteaders paid a fee and had to stay 5 years before they could own the land. After 6 months homesteaders could purchase the land from the gov. for $1.25 an acre. Homestead Act led to 8 million acres being given by 1900.
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Ida B. Wells
Wells was a social reform movement. After three of her male friends were lynched for crimes they did not commit, she then created an organization a national anti-lynching crusade.
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The Gilded Ages
Entrepreneurs lowered prices, making goods more affordable as well as improving their qualities. They also were able to make profits for themselves making them wealthy, and by their extravagant and flamboyant lifestyle the period of 1865 to 1900 was known as the Gilded Age.
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Upton Sinclair
Sinclair wrote the book The Jungle that revealed the truth of many abuses of the meat-packing industry
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first federal law to restrict immigration in the US. People blamed the unemployment and decline in wages on the Chinese workers. This law temporarily banned Chinese immigration and new requirements for them to stay were placed on them.
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Haymarket Riot
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Dawes Act
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Pure Food and Drug Act
Regulated preparation of food sales and sales of medicine
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Muckrakers
Writers, like investigation reporters, writers and social scientists that exposed abuse of industrial society and government corporations, became known as Muckrakers as they got the dirt on American life. Also examined business practices affecting consumers and the lives of the poor
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16th Amendment
In Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., The Supreme Court declared federal income tax as unconstitutional as it broke the 'rule of apportionment.' It became the bases for federal income tax and was ratified in 1913.
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17th Amendment
After scandalous elections, led the election of senators to be left to the voters of the state and was ratified in 1913.
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Federal Reverse Act
The US was having financial problems in 1907. The US has to pay the Fed's interest after getting money from them. The Federal Reserves then put the money into Wall Street and the selected as dealers deposit the money and are told they have to keep 10% and can loan the remaining 90%.
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18th Amendment
Alcohol was prohibited, the proponents believed that alcohol was dangerous and getting rid of it would better everything, lessen the need for hospitals and prisons, alcohol related deaths declined, but law drove the alcohol business underground and to the blackmarket. The prohibition came to an end when the 21st Amendment was ratified.
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19th Amendment
The 19th is the right for women to vote, women suffrage, even though some states allowed women to vote and hold office, the 19th made it so all women could vote.
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Teapot Dome Scandal