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Manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines this shifted into powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production.
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Direct Election of U.S. Senators. Americans did not directly vote for senators for the first 125 years of the Federal Government senators would be elected by state legislatures.
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He was amassed wealth and power during the period of the industrial growth following the American Civil War
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Created separate spheres of European and American influence. ... The United States would not interfere with current European colonies in the Western Hemisphere. No European nation would be allowed to establish a new colony in the Western Hemisphere.
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President Andrew Jackson, passed the Indian Removal Act which gave the federal government the power to relocate any Native Americans in the east to territory that was west of the Mississippi River
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American expansion that the US was destined to stretch from coast to coast. This caused the Native American removal and war with Mexico.
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Leaving the Canajoharie Academy in 1849, she soon devoted more of her time to social issues. In 1851, she attended an anti-slavery conference, where she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was inspired to fight for women's rights while campaigning against alcohol.
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Industrial Revolution changed material production, wealth, labor patterns and population distribution.The new industrial labor opportunities caused a population shift from the countryside to the cities.The new factory work led to a need for a strict system of factory discipline.
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Helped made stronger rails for constructing the railroads and helped to make stronger metal machines and innovative architectural structures like skyscrapers
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New York governor who later became the 26th U.S. president, He is remembered for his foreign policy, corporate reforms and ecological preservation.
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He worked in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. Carnegie worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before he became a superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859
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Opened up settlement in the western US, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land.
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Rapid economic growth.New products and technologies improved middle-class quality of life.Industrial workers and farmers didn't share in the new prosperity.Gilded Age politicians were largely corrupt and ineffective.Most Americans during the Gilded Age wanted political and social reforms
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Labor organizer and socialist leader. He entered politics as a Democratic City Clerk in 1879, and in1885 he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with support from Terre Haute’s workers and businessmen. Debs organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago in 1894. After he was the party’s five presidential elections. Later he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for going against the US in World War I.
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The contribution of immigrants and their descendents to the growth and industrial transformation of the American workforce in the age of mass immigration
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The statute of 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for ten years. Chinese workers in the country were already discriminated their efforts failed
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It as broken up land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservations and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on.
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It turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day.
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Variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America
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Supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite
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In 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated by William McKinley. Bryan lost his bids for the presidency in 1900 and 1908. After helping Woodrow Wilson secure the Democratic presidential nomination for 1912, he served as Wilson’s secretary of state until 1914. He also campaigned for peace, prohibition, suffrage, and criticized the teaching of evolution.
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Yellow Journalism is a term first during the famous newspaper wars between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer II. With so much competition between the newspapers, the news was over-dramatized to fit story ideas that publishers and editors thought would sell the most
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The discovery of gold in the Yukon in 1896 led many to the Klondike region This led to the establishment of Dawson City (1896) and subsequently, the Yukon Territory (1898
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She led a anti-lynching crusade in the 1890s, and went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice.
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Brought new immigrants into mainstream American society In a way they helped the new immigrants
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Religious movement during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ.
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Theodore Roosevelt, president of the US, nicknamed these investigative journalists muckrakers. A rake was used to dig up filth and muck.
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Preference for established US residents, as opposed to foreigners considered were to be outsiders and the opposition to immigration. The belief towards immigrants based on their national origin, their ethnic background, their race or religion.
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gives voters the rights to propose laws and vote
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It was to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
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He was a American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer, his works reflect socialistic views. He gained publicy in 1906 with his novel "The Jungle", which exposed the deplorable conditions of the U.S. meat-packing industry. It caused a outcry among the people and led to the passing of the Meat Inspection Act in 1906.
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Promote the US commercial interest and economic power by loans made to strategically important foreign countries.
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She advocated woman’s suffrage because she believed that women’s votes would be the "margin" necessary to pass social legislation
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To provide the nation with a safer, flexible and more stable monetary and financial system. Over the years its role in banking and the economy has expanded.
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Income tax allows for the federal government to keep an army, build roads and bridges, enforce laws and carry out other important needs
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The banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol. With the exception of those used for religious rite
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Government corruption and the scandals out of the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Since then it has sometimes been used to symbolize the power and influence of oil companies
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Womans right to vote
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American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was called a "labor lawyer." He also was known for defending teenaged thrill killers Leopold, Loeb, and John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial.
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Immigrants is associate the American dream with opportunity, a good job and home ownership
