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Muckraker
"to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics" -
Industrialization
"Process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods." from having farms to having a machines and factories that make goods and objects for us. -
Indian Removal
"General resettlement of Native Americans from east of the Mississippi River to lands west" removing to indians and putting them else where because they didnt "Fit in with the Whites" -
Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Susan B. Anthony
American social reformer and womens rights advocate.she helped with the 19th amendment. -
Nativism
"the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants." protecting those born native american from immagration -
andrew carnegie
led enormous expansion of the american steel industry in the late 19th century. also know as one of the richest americans. -
Third Parties Politics
"The Republican Party had been born as a “third party” in 1856, as aforementioned, largely in response to the issue of slavery." -
Homestead Act
"a person's or family's residence, which comprises the land, house, and outbuildings, and in most states is exempt from forced sale for collection of debt." they can sell or collect money from you for your house and or farm -
The Glided Age
"population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings and many wealthy people lived very fancy lives." -
Ida B. Wells
african american journalist and early leader in the civil rights movement. -
Eugene v. Debbs
American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. also Socialist Party of America for President of the United States for 5 years. -
Immigration and the American dream
the action of someone from another country comes to live permanently in a foreign country. the american dream is a p.o.v that people from out the country have in mind on how they want to live in the US. -
Populism & Pogressivism
based on the government stating that it can be used to better society. -
Civil service reform
a united states federal law established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Haymarket Riot
a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at haymarket square in chicogo -
Dawes Act
"American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians" a federal attempt to break up reservation. -
Jane Adams
pioneer, and american settlement activist reformer. leader of womens suffrage and world peace. -
Klondike Gold Rush
"Migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada" -
Political Machines
"organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts" small groups working together in a business or corporation. -
Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of the United States of America. youngest president -
Dollar Diplomacy
"the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence." using the power of the USA to expand on things we need financially. -
Urbanization
when the population of people grow in a city or city like place. -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and leading member of the american civil liberties union -
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 Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote -
William Jennings Bryan
American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Federal Reserve Act
"The central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes (now commonly known as the U.S. Dollar)" authority to give money to banks -
19th Amendment
giving women the same rights as men and putting discrimmination to an end for jobs. -
Suffrage
The right to vote in political elections. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
"The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding" a secret oil company -
Upton sinclair
american writer of over 100 books. well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize -
18th Amendment
United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol" selling or having possesstion of alcohol was illegal.
