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Susan B Anthony
She was a sufferagist and she was the president of National American Women Sufferage Association. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was the self-made steel tycoon and philanthropist whose donations expanded the New York Public Library system. -
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Eugene Debbs
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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Clarence Darrow
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Theodore Roosevelt
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 Byran
An American politician that was popular for being in the poulist wing of the democratic party. -
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Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace -
Homestead Act
Granted adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and 5 years of continuous residence on that land. -
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Ida B. Wells
She was a journalist, sufferagist, and a civil rights leader. -
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Upton Sinclair
Most famous for writing the book titled The Jungle. -
Haymarket Riot
It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police. -
Dawes Act
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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Klondike Gold Rush
was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Provided federal inspection of meat products and made it illegal to manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
16th Amendment
Allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
17th Amendment
Established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
The secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States. -
19th Amendment
Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.