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Beginning with an agricultural economy and moving to and industrial economy. This was made possible in the U.S. because of the western railroads and western expansion.
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The political position of supporting a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. This meant that essentially early segregation was in the U.S.
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A policy of the U.S. where Native Americans were forcibly removed from their homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River.
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The European's idea that God had intended for them to conquer the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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The struggle in the U.S. for women's right to vote and the right to run for office.
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Provided settlers with 160 acres of public land. In order to keep their land homesteaders paid a fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
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Founded Woman's National Refuge and was a very significant and influential leader in the right for women's rights.
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The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth especially in the North and West. This caused many Europeans to immigrate due to the much higher wages.
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Placed most federal employees on the merit system also called the spoils system.
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The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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Essentially the homestead act but for natives. Allowed the president to divide native tribal land.
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Believes in the power of the general public and the average man and rejects social darwinism.
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Name given to U.S. journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in politics.
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Founded Carnegie Steel. One of the richest men in history.
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Three time democratic nominee and served as secretary of state in Nebraska.
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The migration of 100,000 gold prospectors in the yukon in Canada.
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26th president of the United States.
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the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
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an American union leader and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle
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The act that prevented manufacturing of contaminated, diseased, or altered food or drugs.
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A women's suffrage activist and a journalist and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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A population shift from rural to urban areas. Couples with industrialization.
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Established the central banking system in the united states and gave them permission to print money.
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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.
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Established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states.
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A leader in women's suffrage and a leader in world peace.
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Prevented the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcohol.
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Granted American women the right to vote
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A bribery incident that took place in the United States in regard to oil and fuel for the navy.
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Best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert Franks.
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the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. Immigrants came to the U.S. tp pursue the american dream which is the idea that you can be anything you want to be.
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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.
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When citizens vote on laws instead of the state or national governments. The referendum originated as a populous reform in the populist party, but was later picked up by the progressive reform movement.
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any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals.
