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Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
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Picture Andrew Carnegie was the one who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
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Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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William Jennings Bryan was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death.
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Picture Jane Addams was the leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
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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.
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The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West.
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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr., was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres
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Was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration
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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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was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada
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Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors.
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16th amendment Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income.
17th amendment Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.
18th amendment Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
19th amendment Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. -
The central banking system of the United States of America
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Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States