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A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work
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The period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society.
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American womens rights activist
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Political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people.
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Credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.
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Was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer
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Founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894.
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Was a labor organizer and five-time Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president.
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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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Was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.
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Roosevelt was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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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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Won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist.
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American journalist, an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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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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Derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who were accused of using unscrupulous methods to get rich
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Was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West.
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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, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age.
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Was an American writer, Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
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Was a reformist social movement. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness.
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An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
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The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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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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Was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices
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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.
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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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Populism was a movement that was led by the farmers for the economic change, whereas Progressivism, was the movement of urban middle class against the political system,
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Characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
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Was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.
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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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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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Established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states.
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Act 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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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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Granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women's suffrage.
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was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921–1923.
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Political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their efforts.