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the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.
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A Christian intellectual movement
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A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses
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Scottish American industialist who led the enormous expansion of the american steel industry in the Late 19th Century.
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An American social reformer and feminist who played a very important role in the Women's Suffrrage movement.
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The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.
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the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast.
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An american union leader who was one of the founding members of the industrial workers of the world.
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American Lawyer, leading member of the American civil liberties union and prominent advocate for georgist economic reform .
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Leading member of the america civil liberties union.
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the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
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Force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party.
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A prioneer American settlement activist/ reformer, and leader in women's suffrage.
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Made public lands in the west available to settlers without payment.
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a special act of Congress that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
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Early leader in the civil rights movement
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The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West.
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Progressivism s based on the idea of progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition.
populism is a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite. -
refers to movements for the improvement of the civil service in methods of appointment, rules of conduct.
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a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
The Haymarket Riot was viewed a setback for the organized labor movement in America, which was fighting for such rights as the eight-hour workday. -
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
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The Klondike Gold Rush was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting in the Klondike near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered.
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to search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business.
The term muckraker is closely associated with reform-oriented journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United State -
Urbanization is the process where an increasing percentage of a population lives in cities and suburbs. This process is often linked to industrialization and modernization, as large numbers of people leave farms to work and live in cities.
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The term third party is used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties
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An American statesman, Author, and soldier who served as a president of the United States.
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An Act for preventing 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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Allows Federal government to collect an income tax from all Americans.
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Senate of U.S should be composed of two senators from each state elected by the people for 6 years and each senator should have one vote.
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The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the United States.
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Established the prohibition of alcoholic bevrages in the U.S.
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he right to vote, especially in a political election.
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Forbids voting rights dicriminations anywhere in the U.S based on sex.
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a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration.
