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Development of new industries
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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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the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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A political machine is a political group 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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The rich got richer and the poor remained poor, greedy, corrupt industrialists, bankers, and politicians enjoyed wealth.
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Women's suffrage, voted in the 1872 election got arrested.
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Invented the telephone.He also founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.
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A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances.
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an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
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Samuel Gompers founded the union in 1886, seeking better wages, working conditions, shorter working days, and the creation of all-union workplaces for its members.
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A rally near Chicago's haymarket square turned into a riot after there was a bomb thrown at police. Labor activists were to blame.
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The railroads are subject to the federal regulation
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Leader in the settlement house movement and she founded Hull House
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Businessmen accused of using immoral methods to get rich
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African American leader who worked to end lynching.(killing by hanging)
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices
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Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.
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Apartments occupied by families in poverty
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Telegraph operator, opened his own steel mill called Carnegie Steel Corparation
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Unlimited Coinage of Silver, Direct election of senators, Term limits for presidents,Secret ballots, immigration restrictions
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The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899.
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Powers reserved to voters to propose or repeal an elected official from office.
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26th president
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wrote a novel called "jungle" that talks about the unsanitary practices of the meat packaging industry
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The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
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Prevented the manufacture, sale, of transportation of misbrand foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors.
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protestant ministers called reforms such as the abolition of child labor and safer working conditions
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financial power to extend international influence
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The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 established the Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the United States to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
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After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
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The secretary of interior leased oil rich government land at teapot dome in exchange for personal bribes.
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Union Leader, President of American federation of labor
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Represent scopes at the "Monkey Trial" on evolution in 1925
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Eugene Victor Debs was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, 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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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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Direct election for U.S. senators
