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American social reformer and feminist activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
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U.S. policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas .
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Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century, richest person.
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Process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods
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The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
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American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
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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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American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.
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American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States.
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Pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
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This act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
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African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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The period that was glitted on the surface but corrupt underneath.
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movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age.
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American writer of nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
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Populists focused on the economic system, Populism is socially conservative
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First significant law restricting immigration into the United States passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration.
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Aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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This act authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
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Journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in politics and business.
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Gold was discovered in many rich deposits along the Klondike River causing a huge immigration.
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Journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
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Three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office.
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American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means.
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Preveted the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
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The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
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"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."
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The process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas.
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Anti-immigration movement which favored those descended from the inhabitants of the original Thirteen Colonies.
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Senators were elected by state legislatures.
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Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.
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"Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal."
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Political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.
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Guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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Was characterized by scandal and corruption, the most controversial of which was the Teapot Dome oil scandal.
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This act authored the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.