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Referendums were instituted in the states to prevent interest groups, political parties, and factions from taking too much control over state and local laws. -
Nativism is a reaction against immigrants. Earlier inhabitants of an area or a country sometimes develop a dislike or fear of immigrants. -
The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed anyone over 21 years of age or the head of a household to apply for free federal land with two simple stipulations:
-Be a citizen of the United States or legally declare their intent to become one
-Did not fight against the United States or aid enemies of the United States -
American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890's. -
An African American writer, teacher, sociologist, and activist whose work transformed the way that the lives of Black citizens were seen in American society and his writing—including his groundbreaking The Souls of Black Folk became required reading in African American studies. -
A mass exodus of prospecting migrants from their hometowns to Canadian Yukon Territory and Alaska after gold was discovered there. The idea of striking it rich led over 100,000 people from all walks of life to abandon their homes and embark on an extended, life-threatening journey across treacherous, icy valleys and harrowing rocky terrain. -
Sinclair wanted to change the progressive class by making shorter work hours and earn higher pay by writing his book The Jungle. -
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
A person who searches for and tries to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing, especially in politics. -
The initiative process generally allows citizens to bypass their elected representatives, propose laws, place them on the ballot, and enact them at the polls by simple majority vote. -
Recall is a power reserved to the voters that allows the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official. -
Industrial lockout and strike. Violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in Homestead, Pennsylvania. -
organizations-controlled access to political power by rigging votes, buying people’s loyalty and their ballots. -
Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. -
The work of Susan B. Anthony sparked the suffrage movement and gained widespread support for it, and in four years after her death, her life's work was finally fulfilled with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. -
The prohibition of alcohol in the United States. -
Prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognising the right of women to a vote. -
A progressive social reformer and activist, Jane Addams was on the frontline of the settlement house movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She later became internationally respected for the peace activism that ultimately won her a Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman to receive this honor.