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political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses
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Favoring the native inhabitants opposed to immifrants
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was a movement that was led by the farmers for the economic change
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was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization
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was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement
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led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century
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created the first telephone
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with his book How the Other Half Lives, shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions
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founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president
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one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World,
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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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a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
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He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States
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he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States.
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leader in women's suffrage and world peace
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She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions
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a derogatory term used for some powerful nineteenth-century American businessmen
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Its beginning in the years after the American Civil War overlaps the Reconstruction Era
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The growth started in the late 1800's and continued on though the civil war. By the end of the war the U.S industry was small
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He gained public notoriety in 1906 with his novel The Jungle, which exposed the deplorable conditions of the U.S. meat-packing industry.
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rally at Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works.
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is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices
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a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city
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was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness
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Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie and George Washington Carmack found some gold in a mountain in canada, so others went to get some of the gold
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it allows people to vote off any elected official from office
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was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
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preventing 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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was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
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The amendment supersedes Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures.
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allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census
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is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender.
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effectively established the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal.
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prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex
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they're wages were cut by $00.07 so they protested
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was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
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