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Indian Revalution
encompasses activities and ideas aiming to end first the company rule and then the rule of the British Raj. The independence movement saw various national and regional campaigns, agitations and efforts, some nonviolent -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Political Machines
politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century -
Susan B. Anthony
Anthony traveled, lectured, and canvassed across the nation for the vote. She also campaigned for the abolition of slavery, the right for women to own their own property and retain their earnings, and she advocated for women's labor organizations. In 1900, Anthony persuaded the University of Rochester to admit women -
Manifest Destiny
was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Suffrage
the right to vote in political elections. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs 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 -
Clarence Darrow
was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks. -
Teddy Roosevelt
was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States. -
Jane Addams
was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government including freed slaves and women, was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
The Gilded Age
he nation was rapidly expanding its economy into new areas, especially heavy industry like factories, railroads, and coal mining. In 1869, the First Transcontinental Railroad opened up the far-west mining and ranching regions. Travel from New York to San Francisco now took six days instead of six months -
Social Gospel
movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr., was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle. -
Civil Service Reform
in the U.S. was a major issue in the late 19th century at the national level, and in the early 20th century at the state level. Proponents denounced the distribution of office by the winners of elections to their supporters as corrupt and inefficient. -
Haymarket Riot
was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
The Dawes Act
An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations, -
Third Parties Politics
is used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties The term can also refer to independent politicians not affiliated with any party at all and to write-in candidates. -
Klondike Gold Rush
also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, the Canadian Gold Rush, and the Last Great Gold Rush, was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Referendum" is a general term which refers to a measure that appears on the ballot. In political terminology, the initiative is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. recall is a procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office. -
Urbanization & Industrialization
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Muckraker
refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
Populism & Progressivism
was a period of social activism and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s -
Pure Food and Drug Act
was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products. -
16th amendment
income taxes the purpose was to raise revenue for government programs and reduce reliance on tariffs. -
17th amendment
direct election of senators -
Dollar Diplomacy
to ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending American commercial and financial interests there. It grew out of President Theodore Roosevelt’s peaceful intervention in the Dominican Republic, -
Federal Reserve Act
is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
18th amendment
prohibition -
19th amendment
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. After President Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement -
Immigration & the American Dream
Latin American immigration is a political, economic, and social issue that has captured the attention of popular news media and its consumers in both the United States and Latin American markets. Latino immigrants come from Mexico, Central America, South America, and islands in the Caribbean. A few of the motivating factors that bring Hispanic immigrants to the United States include a lack of resources and opportunities in their home countries,
