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A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and business, who receive awards for their efforts
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Urbanization occurs when the population shifts fro rural to urban areas. With the advent of innovative agricultural technologies and industrialization
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the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
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An american woman who worked for womens rights.
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All native americans were forcefully removed from their homes, Andrew jackson sent troops to round them up
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Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude during the westward expansion in the 1900's
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Industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the steel company
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an american union leader and one of the founding leaders of the IWW .
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The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace
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Darrow was an American lawyer and was one of the leading members of the American Civil Liberties Union
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Roosevelt established the pure food and drug act and the meat inspection act. Elected president in 1901
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He was in lots of causes including peace, women's suffrage, prohibition, and christian fundamentalism
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Mrs. Adams co-founded settlements in the united states. She also served as the first female president of the national conference of social work
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This act contributed to westward expansion. It granted 160 acres of land to women and men
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Founding member of the NAACP. She was an anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, womens rights advocate, journalist, and speaker
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Greed and political corruption is what this era consisted of
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The industrialism in the US introduced us improved production methods. It gave us the development of new products, a growing population.
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religious social-reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920
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A novelist whose writing reflected the socialistic views
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The populist movement started during the 1880's. Farmers created their own party by uniting and they became the populist party. MIddle class started in the early 1900's by the middle class people and well-educated people.
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act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration
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a labor protest near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a rally after someone threw a bomb at the police. 8 people died
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The Dawes Act was important for tribal life because it reduced the tribes ability to live in their ways.
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"Robber baron" is a derogatory term used for some powerful nineteenth-century American businessmen. Robber barons were contrasted with "captains of industry," a term originally used in the United Kingdom during the Industrial Revolution describing a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way
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Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. This style of writing helped push the U.S and Cuba into war in Cuba
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A migration of an estimated 100,000 prospectors to Yukon in northern canada
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Immigrants is associate to to the American dream . The united states offered more opportunity.
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Suffrage is the right to vote in public elections. Womens suffrage was fought for in the 1900's
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President Taft influenced latin americas and asia and guaranteed them loans
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Processes that allow the citizens to vote on particular pieces of the legislation
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This protected the adulteration of of food
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The term muckraker was in the progressive era to characterize reform-minded american journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines.
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A law that allows the federal government to levy a tax form all americans
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It allowed the people of each state to elect their representative in the US
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The Federal Act was enacted in response to a series of financial crises that occurs.
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Outlawed alcohol
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provides both men and women with voting rights
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Teapot Dome scandal became one of the biggest scandals of its times. It was a bribery scandal
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a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.