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A political machine (sometimes called just machine in politics) is a political organization in which a person or small group with authority that has enough votes or is popular enough to have control over political administration or any type of government in a city, county, or state. -
American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a vital role in the women's suffrage movement. (also collected anti-slavery petitions) -
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
An American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. (important leader in social work and women's suffrage) -
The purpose was to encourage settlement in the west. -
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement -
An American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. He was the most important black protest leader during the first half of the 20th century -
pioneered the kind of journalism known as "muckraking." -
Suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization -
A direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law,
or political issue. -
Homestead Strike, also called Homestead riot, violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892 -
Skookum Jim and his family found gold near the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory. Their discovery sparked one of the most frantic gold rushes in history. -
Present Recall is a power reserved for the voters that allow the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official. -
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. -
prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption. -
any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing -
granted women the right to vote.