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Susan B. Anthony
Anthony was raised in a Quaker household and went on to work as a teecher before becoming a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement. -
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Andrew carnegie
He was an American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry -
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manifest destiny
The phrase was first employed by John L. O'Sullivan in an article on the annexation of Texas published in the July-August 1845 edition of the United States Magazine -
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Eugene V. Debs
was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World -
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Clarence Darrow
leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union -
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theodore roosevelt
theodore roosevelt was the 26 president of the United States -
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William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska congressman in 1890. He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver -
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jane addams
one of the first settlements in the United States the Hull House in Chicago. -
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the Homestead Act
the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land -
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Ida B. Wells
Wells led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s, and went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice -
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immigration and the american dream
equal opportunity -
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Urbanization
population shift from rural to urban areas -
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Upoton Sinclair
the Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry -
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Dawes Act
General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887), adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States -
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social gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform -
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16th Amendment
16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
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17th amendment
United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
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18th Amendment
Congress passed the Volstead Act, which set the date for prohibition at January 17, 1920. -
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19th amendment
American women the right to vote a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded -
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muckraker
to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics