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Industrialization
Transition to new manufacturing processes -
Susan B. Anthony
womens rights activist who played a major role in the womens suffrage movement. -
Nativism
Political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Indian Removal
Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within state borders. -
Urbanization
the process of making an area more urban. -
Andrew Carnegie
American industrial leader in the early 1900s, Led expansions if the steel industry west -
Manifest Destiny
doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Eugene V. Debbs
He was an American Union Leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, As well as five time the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Clarence Darrow
was an American Lawyer and a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
Theodore Roosevelt
American Statesman, Soldier, and 26th President of the U.S. -
William Jennings Bryan
was a U.S. Secretary of State as well as three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Jane Adams
Was a pioneer of American Settlement and considered the Mother of Social Work -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of 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. -
Ida B. Wells
An American newspaper journalist as well as early leader civil rights activist -
Third Parties Politics
Any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals -
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The Gilded Age
An era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
Political Machines
Political organization in which an authoritative boss commands the support of a corps of businesses -
Upton Sinclair
American author that wrote nearly 100 books and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 -
Civil Service Reform
Law enacted in 1883 which established that positions in the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair was 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 land and divide it into lots for individual Indians. -
Populism and Progressivism
Those who follow progressivism are mostly powerful poeple while those who support populism are the generally masses. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
Migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
Initiative and Referendum
Three powers reserved to enable the voters to propose or repeal legislation to remove an elected official from office. -
Muckraker
Term that characterized reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors. -
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. -
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. -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State elected by the people thereof, for six years and each Senator shall have one vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
Intended to establish a form of economic stability in the United States through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy. -
Suffrage
The right of women to vote in elections. -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States. -
19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote. -
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922. -
American Dream and Immagration
Entering a country illegally looking for the american dream in the pursuit of opportunity, a good job, owning a home and in many cases, safety from war or persecution.
