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The birth of modern america

  • Susan B. Anthony

    American social informer who played a role in womens suffrage
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Scottish American industrialist who led the expansion of the american steel industry in late 19th century
  • Eugene V. Debbs

    American union leader, the only person to run forpresident from prison
  • Clarence Darrow

    American lawyer and a leading member of the American civil liberities union
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    American politicain and historian who served as the 26th president of the United States
  • William Jennings Bryan

    American politican and a standing three time as the democratic party canididate for president of the United States
  • Jane Addams

    Leader in world peace and womens suffrage
  • Homestead Act

    whoever has not diobeyed the law a can claim a federal land grant
  • Ida B. Wells

    African American Journalist and a early leader in the civil rights movement
  • Haymarket Riot

    Aftermath of a bombing that happened at labor demonstartion
  • Dawes Act

    Divide american indian land and give it to individual natives
  • Upton Sinclair

    American author who almost wrote a 100 books in all genres
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food
    http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act.html
  • 16th amendment

    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.
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxvi
  • 17th amendment

  • 18th amendment

  • 19th amendment