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the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures.Also in the 1830s–1850.
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Can remove an elected representative from office
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congress passed the homestead act offering 160 acres of free land to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household -
It was one of the most violent strikes in U.S. history. It was against the Homestead Steel Works, which was part of the Carnegie Steel Company, in Pennsylvania in retaliation against wage cuts. The riot was ultimately put down by Pinkerton Police and the state militia, and the violence further damaged the image of unions. -
was an African American who was founder of the African American women's club movement ,Sued the railroad and won but then the TN supreme court reversed the decision, campaigned against lynching ,founded anti lynching societies = women's loyal union in NY in 1892 -
organizations whose main goals were the rewards (money, influence, prestige) of getting and keeping power,known for fraud and bribery,provided relief, security, and services to voters,popular in immigrant societies -
law that suspended Chinese immigration into America.The ban was supposed to last 10 years, but it was expanded several times and was essentially in effect until WWII.it was the first significant law that restricted immigration into the United States of an ethnic working group. Extreme example of nativism of period -
a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892-1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
took place in the Yukon Region. The Yukon is a remote area of Canada. Prospectors traveled long distances and rough terrain in order to get to the Yukon Region to try to make it rich. -
Voters can propose and vote for new laws -
An investigative journalist or reporter who focuses on exposing the problems in society. -
scholar and activist for racial equality who is Founder of the Niagara Movement (1905) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) to enforce what is known as the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.He believed the educated African Americans must use their education and training to challenge inequality. -
muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen. -
gave Congress the power to tax income. -
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages -
extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Women's right to vote a.k.a. women's suffrage.ratified in August 1920 -
Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's Intenational League for Peace and Freedom.and Founder of the social work profession.A social reformer who opened and operated the largest settlement house in Chicago called Hull House. -
A state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to approve or disapprove proposed legislation or a proposed constitutional amendment.it was first introduced in the United States by South Dakota in 1898