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Urbanization & Industrialization
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Third Party Politics
A party that is not part of main parties in a government, i.e. Socialist Party. -
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Manifest Destiny
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Civil Service Reform
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Susan B. Anthony
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Nativism
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Indian Removal
In the 19th century, this was process of removing "Indians" from areas to increase the living area for whites. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the tale 19th Century. -
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Immigration & the American Dream
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Eugene V. Debbs
An American union leader, one of the founding memebers of the Industrial Workers of the World. -
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Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
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Political Machines
A political organization in which an authoritatived boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. -
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Teddy Roosevelt
An American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the U.S. -
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William Jennings Bryan
American politician that was dominany force in the populist of the Democratic party. -
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Jane Addams
Pioneer American settelment worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Suffrage
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Homestead Act of 1862
This Homestead Act was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. This act was signed into law to give land to people who hadn't taken arms during the Civil War, including freed slaves and women, or family heads. -
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Ida B. Wells
An African-American journalists, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
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The Gilded Age
An era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West of America. -
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Upton Sinclair
An American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his classic mucraking novel, The Jungle. -
Haymarket Riot
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square, Chicago. -
The Dawes Act
This act allowed the U.S. government to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into areas for individual Indians. -
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Populism & Progessivism
Populism is the belief in the power of regular people, and in right their right to have control over their government.
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Klondike Gold Rush
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Muckraker
Reform-minded journalists that wrote for all popular magazines and worked to expose social ills and corporate & political corruption. -
Initiative & Referendum
A process that allows the citizens of many U.S. States to place a new legistration on a popular ballet. -
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Social Gospel
A Protistant Christian intellectual movement -
Pure Food And Drug Act
Enacted by the Federal goernment, it enabled the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
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16th Amendment
This amendment allows Congress to levy an income tax without dividing it among the states or basing it on the U.S. Census -
17th Amendment
This amendment made a direct election of United Stes Senators by popular vote, which supersedes that senators were elected by state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
An Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the U.S. -
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Tea Pot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the U.S., during the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
18th Amendment
Enacted by the U.S. Congress, it made the sale, trade, production, and transportation of alcohol illegal -
19th Amendment
This amendment allowed women to vote, granting them the suffrage they wanted.