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manifest destiny
the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. -
homestead act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Haymarket riot
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration. -
pure food and drug act
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration -
the dawes act
its a law that give pieces of land to indians to individually owned rest of land is sold to white settlers -
immigration
eastern Europe migrates -
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muckraker
Name given to US journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in politics and business in the early 20th century. -
klondike gold rush
migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
social gospel
a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. -
16th amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th amendments
federal income taxes, gov has a stable money rich people get more taxes -
18th amendment
the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
19th amendment
woman right to vote -
suffrage
the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. -
nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.the political position of preserving status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.