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Was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker who was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Was a local political party organization capable of mobilizing or "manufacturing" large numbers of votes on behalf of candidates for political office.
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referred to white, native-born, Protestant Americans' hostility to European immigrants.
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Was signed by Presidnet Andrew Jackson, authorized the president to grant land deads west of the Mississippi. During the fall and winter of 1838-1839 the Cherokees were frocabley removed from their homelands in Georgia and marched acrossed the south to lands in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma.
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A Scottish American in the late 19th century built the American steel indudtry, which turned poor young men into the richest entrepreneurs
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was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.
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Labor organizer and socialist leader, Debs organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago in 1894.
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Was a lawyer who worked as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials and was also a public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous writer.
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Theodore 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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He was a liberal leader and magnetic orator who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency.
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Was a pioneer American settlement social worker. Settlement house founder and peace activist. Also leader in the woman's suffrage and world peace.
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becomes law, allowing settlers to claim land (160 acres) after they have lived on it for five years
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Was an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
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The world became a large industrial nation with things coming in such as steel, silver, gold, etc.(process of social and economic)
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a period of rapid economic growth but also much social conflict
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An American writer and reformer. Sinclair was an idealistic supporter of socialism and became famous as a "muckraker."The muckrakers were writers whose principal goal was exposing social and political evils.
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Also known as the Haymarket Massacre
A labor protest rally that turneed into a riot when a police had a bomb thrown at him, a couple people died that day. It's viewed as a setback fot the organized labor movement in America fighting for rights as the eight-hour workday -
An act to provide allotment of land to several Indians on Reservated land. Also to extend protection laws of the US and territories over Indians.
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When gold was literally found all over the place. Eleven months after the initial discovery of gold, the steamship Portland arrived in Seattle from Dawson with more than a ton of gold
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an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century.
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Is a federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.
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President William Howard Taft founded "Dollar Diplomacy". Was evident in extensive U.S. interventions in the Caribbean and Central America, especially in measures undertaken to safeguard American financial interests in the region.
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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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It modified the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.
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Was signed by President Wilson, it created and set up the Federal Reserve system of the US granting it legal authority Federal notes and bank not as legal tender.
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Farmers believed that industrialists and bankers controlled both
the republicans and the democrats within’ the government
A movement to improve American life by taking advantage of
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Investigative reporters who promoted social and political reforms by exposing corruption and urban problems
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Transporting alcohol, selling was not allowed and they wanted everyone sober.
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Immigrants wanting to come to America and live the American Dream living a beter life.
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U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote..a right known as woman suffrage.
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Getting the right to vote in political elections. 19th amendment ratified women to have the right to vote.
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scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves
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refers to any party other than the major two, which are the Democratic and Republican parties at present.
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A religious social-reform movement that was prominent from about 1870 to 1920, especially among liberal Protestant groups dedicated to the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice.
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It applies to labor organizations which represents employees in most agencies of the executive branch of the Federal Government.
