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Manifest Destiny
The expansion through the west which the settlers going by God to expand the entire continent. -
Susan B. Anthony
One of the most important woman in the leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement known as suffrage. -
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Third Parties Politics
The third party was created to politicians who don’t want follow the other two parties, the republican and democratic. -
Indian Removal
After this become an Act in 1830, the policy of ethnic cleansing to remove the Native Americans. -
Andrew Carnegie
A Philanthopy man who created in 1889 the Carnegie Steel Corporation, one of the biggest companies in that age. -
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Immigration
Is people from one country move to another one, in USA the immigration began in the 19th Century -
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Nativism
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Suffrage
Movement of the Women to conquest the right to vote. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Was a famous novelist and social crusader from California, who pioneered the kind of journalism known as "muckraking." -
Clarence Darrow
Darrow was an American Lawyer and a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
Teddy Roosevelt
The 26th President of the United States, leader of the Republican Party and the Progressive Movement. -
William Jennings Bryan
A leader politician, three times candidate a President and dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party. -
Homestead Act
The Act provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen who has never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
Ida B. Wells
A journalist, Wells led a anti-lynching crusade in the United States i the 1890s, and went in to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
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Populism
A political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions (such as fears) of the general people. Populist sentiment contributed to the American Revolutionary War, and continued to shape the young United States afterward. -
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Industrialization
Period which the economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one. -
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The Gilded Age
An era of corruption. An era which the agrarian society was transform to a urban society which have several industrial corporations. -
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Social Gospel
Protestant Christian movement to solve problem such social injustice, racism, etc. -
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Urbanization
It predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas, be it horizontal or vertical. -
Political Machines
Began in 1872 in U.S. politics, Political machine is a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
Civil Service Reform
A federal Law established to estipulate that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit. -
Haymarket Riot
A labor protest that finished with a terrible bomb killing many people and the spread the chaos there. -
The Dawes Act
Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Reservations. -
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Progressivism
Progressivism is as a political movement in response to significant economic, social, and political inequalities. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
Also called the Last Great Rush, Within six months, approximately 100,000 gold-seekers set off for the Yukon, in Alaska. -
Initiative, Referendum and Recall
Initiative- Means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote.
Referendum- predetermined number of signatures qualifies a ballot measure for repealing a specific Act of the legislature.
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Muckraker
Journalisms writing always to impact the reader in that age. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The first law which prohibited the traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products. -
Upton Sinclair
Was a famous novelist and social crusader from California, who pioneered the kind of journalism known as "muckraking." He had contributed in part with the Act publishing handouts. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
Use country´s financial to expand the international influence, U.S. used to become potential. -
16th Amendment
It allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
17th Amendment
In United States Constitution become to elect Senators by popular vote, therefore a population choice. -
Federal Reserve Act
The most influential laws concerning the U.S. financial system. The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank. -
18th Amendment
Alcohol and Drugs is prohibited in United States. -
19th Amendment
United States Constitution prohibits any American citizen from being denied the right of vote on the basis of sex, that amendment was a goal by the suffrage. -
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TeaPot Dome Scandal
Incident that took place in the United, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyomingand two other locations in California. -
Jane Addams
Co-founder the first settlement in the United States and co-winner of 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. She made part of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, group which promote non violence over the world. She stayed in the organization until 1933. -
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The American Dream
Set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success.
