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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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Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker who was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
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nitiative is the power to propose new legislation. Referendum is the power to reject or overturn legislative actions taken by the Council.Recall is the power to remove an elected official from office
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he 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage
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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 (Republican Party and Democratic Party). The term can also refer to independent politicians not affiliated with any party at all and to write-in candidates.
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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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a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
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In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.
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the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks
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Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States
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William Jennings Bryan was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States.
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a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
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was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movemen
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if you live 5 years on the land its yours, or after 6 months you could buy it
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The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900.
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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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Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr., was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle.
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During the 1880’s, farmers believed that industrialists and bankers controlled both the republicans and the democrats within’ the government
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An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States
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an historic armed confrontation took place between a group of Anarchists and labor activists and more than 170 armed police officers, who had been assembled at the Des Plaines Police Station a half block away in anticipation of a riot.
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An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations,"
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oon, miners of all shapes and sizes, called "stampeders", were on their way to the gold fields. Within six months, approximately 100,000 gold-seekers set off for the Yukon. Only 30,000 completed the trip.
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to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
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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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President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy.”
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From 1909 to 1913, President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy
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allowed the congress to levy an income tax without apporting it among the states or basing it on the united states census . this amendment expented ncome taxes from the constitutional requirements reguarding direct taxes after ncome on rent dividens and intrest were ruled to be direct taxes in the court case of pollock v. farmers' loan &trust .
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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. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the Senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, that the legislature of
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Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
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the right to vote in political elections
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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 reign of President Warren G. Harding.
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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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political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their efforts
