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reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption.
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The Indian Removal Act is 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.
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the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
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was a lawyer who worked as defense counsil in many dramatic criminal trials he was also a public speaker, debater, and misc writer
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was a liberal leader + magnetic creator who ran unsuccessfully for president 3 times
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one of the most important civil rights advocates of the 19th century, was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, just before the emancipation proclamation was signed.
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The first of the acts, the Homestead Act of 1862, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant.
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The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada.
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who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before. In New York, the opera, the theatre, and lavish parties consumed the ruling class' leisure hours. Sherry's Restaurant hosted formal horseback dinners for the New York Riding Club. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish once threw a dinner party to honor her dog who arrived sporting a $15,000 diamond collar.
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elected into senate as a representative for indiana in 1884 and was ana american union leader, socialist.
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was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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Transfer of reservation lands to whites through political process
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Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, the Canadian Gold Rush, and the Last Great 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.
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sold his steel company to JP Morgan for $480 million, making him the richest man in the world.
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made it to where food had to be passed and certified to be sold, consumed, and processed.
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was an American writer and reformer. Sinclair was an idealistic supporter of socialism and became famous as a "muckraker." The muckrakers were writers in the early 1900s whose principal goal was exposing social and political evils.
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founder of the progressive psrty in 1912 and a leader of the progressive movement. was president and governor of new york
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allows the congress to levy an income tax.
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established direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote
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Taft shared the view held by Knox, a corporate lawyer who had founded the giant conglomerate U.S. Steel, that the goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order abroad that would best promote American commercial interests.
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The Federal Reserve Act is an 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.
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The standard conception of 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. In the long run, it has been discovered that the two movements were actually the same in terms of goals and objectives as both wanted change for the better. It’s just that they are different in terms of approach.
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prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alchoholic beverages
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granted american woman the right to vote- a right known as women suffrage
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in the U.S. was a major issue in the late 19th century at the national level, and in the early 20th century at the state level. Proponents denounced the distribution of office by the winners of elections to their supporters as corrupt and inefficient.
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the american dream, everyone wants to experience this.. but when you come from other countries and have to move here thats called immigration
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Business and industrialization centered on the cities. The ever increasing number of factories created an intense need for labor, convincing people in rural areas to move to the city, and drawing immigrants from Europe to the United States. As a result, the United States transformed from an agrarian to an urban nation, and the demographics of the country shifted dramatically.
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were orgainizations that provided social services and jobs in exchange foir votes.
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
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movement arose from the antislavery movement (see abolitionism) and from the advocacy of figures such as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who believed that equality should extend to both women and African Americans.
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Jane Adamms was the first woman to be awarded the nobel peace prize
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In political terminology, the initiative is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot.
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is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals (or, in the context of an impending election, is considered highly unlikely to do so). The distinction is particularly significant in two-party systems.
