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Nativism
is the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants -
susan b anthony
was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker who was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Indian Removal act
a law that was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
andrew carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century -
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
Clarence Seward 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. -
Tedyy roosevelt
Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. 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
Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead act
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost -
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. -
Haymarket riot
the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
civil service reform
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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. -
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. -
Dawes act
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians -
Urbanization and industrialization
a population shift from rural to urban areas and the ways in which society adapts to the change -
populisim and pregressiveism
progressivism was leaning more on uplifting the country by means of socio-economic and political reforms while populism was more anti-capitalistic that favored agrarianism while opposing drastic modernization -
Klondike Gold Rush
was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
political machine
is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses -
Muckraker
reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting. -
Dollar Diplomacy
effort of the united states to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Pure food and Drug act
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 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. -
Federal reserve act
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 -
Social Gospel
is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada -
Teapot Dome Scandal
a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the reign of President Warren G. Harding -
third parties politics
is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals. The distinction is particularly significant in two-party systems. In any case "third" is often used figuratively, as in "the third parties", where the intent, literally stated, is "the third and succeeding parties".
