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Nativism
The people who's decendents came form the people who came from the 13 colonies. The nativists passes acts that prevented new people to come into the US. -
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Manifest Destiny
Was mainly a goal in the 19th centry to make America stretch form the Atlantic, to the Pacific. -
Indian removal
Made them move to federal lands in the west in exchange of their land in the south. -
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Susan B. Anthony
Founded New York Women's State Temperance Society after she was pervented from speaking because she was a woman. in 1863 she founded the Women's Loyal National League, which started the largest petition drive in the nation's history during that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery. Then, initiated the American Equal Rights Association, which fought for equal rights for women and blacks in 1866. in 1868 she published a womens rights news paper. -
Homestead Act
Any one who faught against the US, then you could get a land grant. for example, Africans and Native americans. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a very successful entrepeneuer, and owned his own seel production, he baught it in 1865 when he quit the oil buisness, and became very rich. He sold his company in 1901 and dedicated the rest of his life to helping others. -
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Urbanization & Industrialization
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The Gilded Age
a period of time that had rapid economic growth. People's wages were higher then europe. This attracted immagrants -
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Immigration & the American Dream
People coming from other countries, leaving everything, to america, to make a better life, which was the Ameerican dream, which was having a job, and having money. -
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Populism & Progressivism
pupulism contrast the difference between rich and poor. and progressivism is everyone is equal. -
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Third Parties Politics
where there is another party brought in an election other than democratic or republican. -
Civil Service Reform
movements for the improvement of the civil service -
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Ida B. Wells
A black journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
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Eugene V. Debs
Was a founding memeber of the industrial workers of the world. Member of the Indiana Senate. Founded the American Railway Union. Got arrested because of the pullman strike for defying a court injunction against the strike. -
Haymarket Riot
workers striking for an eight hour shift, then ended with multiple civilians killed and several police officers. -
The Dawes Act
Native americans were forced to live away from their tribes, and become americanized. -
Jane Addams
Co-founded one of the first settlements in the United States, the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, in 1889, and was named a co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. Was the first woman to win the Nobe Peace Prize -
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William Jennings Bryan
Was a leading American politician. Was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, and was a canadat for president three times for the party. -
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Social Gospel
Protestant Christian intellectual movement around the begining of the 20th centry. It applied christian beliefs to social problems, expecially social justice, like, economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
when an estimated 100,000 prospectors migrated to canada because of a gold ruch. -
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Initiative, Referendum, Recall
a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. The first state to do this was, South Dakota in 1898, and the last being Mississippi in 1992. Referendum is a general term which refers to a measure that appears 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. -
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Muckraker
Journalists wrote about things in the US that were bad, like The Jungle. They wrote about things that should be changed, int the early 1900s. -
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political machines
the owners of buisnesses that get the rewards for runnign the bussiness -
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Teddy Roosevelt
Was the 26th president following Mckinley's assassination. Would do anything for the benefit of the people. Promised the people that he would not serve a socond term, because the felt that he had two terms, because he took over after Mckinley, but the following president did not meet his expectations and soon regretted it. -
Upton Sinclair
An author who wrote The Jungle, that explained how the meat production buisness was unsanitary. Rats and other animals would fall into the meat and sometimes even the people working it would fall into the place that slauters the meat. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
government enspected all the food and drugs, to make sure they were safe for the people to eat or take. -
16th amendment
Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
the United states had the right ot intervene in any country under European rule, and is fighting for independence, and struggling. -
17th amendment
allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators -
Federal Reserve Act
The act made it required to have 8-12 federal reserved banks. -
18th amendment
prohibition of alcoholic beverages -
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The scandal damaged the public reputation of the Harding administration, which was already bad. -
19th amendment
gave women the right to vote. -
sufferage
sufferage is the right to vote, white men that were 18 and older were always allowed to vote, then black men in 1870 were granted the right to vote, and finally in 1920 women and everyone that was a citizen had the right to vote -
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Clarence Darrow
He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb, who murders a 14 year old boy. Also was called a "sophisticated country lawyer".
