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Nativism
the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. -
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Susan B. Anthony
was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
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Andrew Carnegie
A Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Manifest Destiny
the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. Historians have for the most part agreed that there are three basic themes to Manifest Destiny: -
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Eugene V. Debbs
An 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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Teddy Roosevelt
an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States. -
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William Jennings Bryan
a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States. -
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Jane Addams
a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestad act
freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
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Social Gospel
Religious reform movement, they wanted to reform society, they wanted people to not to drink alcohol or gamble, work very hard, spend with there family. -
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Upton Sinclair
an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle. -
Haymarket Riot
was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Made it so people would get government jobs depending of merit instead of political ties. -
Urbanization
Settlement Houses were being formed that would help immigrants better their education and assimilate to the American culture. -
Suffrage
the right to vote in political elections. -
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was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there on August 16, 1896 and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors. -
Muckraker
to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption -
Pure food and Drug Act
as the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century was and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors. -
Industrialization
he population of 18 major U,S, cities was half immigrant -
16th Amendments
allows the congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the united states census -
17th Amendments
established direct election ofunited states senators by popular vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
19th Amendments
Women's Right to Vote -
18th Amendments
established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the united states by declaring production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall, a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Indian Removal
a law that was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
The Dawes Act
adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians
