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Unit 3 Key Terms

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    Industrialization

    Transition to new manufacturing processes
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony

    womens rights activist who played a major role in the womens suffrage movement.
  • Nativism

    Nativism

    Political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
  • Indian Removal

    Indian Removal

    Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within state borders.
  • Urbanization

    Urbanization

    the process of making an area more urban.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    American industrial leader in the early 1900s, Led expansions if the steel industry west
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny

    doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  • Eugene V. Debbs

    Eugene V. Debbs

    He was an American Union Leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, As well as five time the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow

    was an American Lawyer and a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a advocate for Georgist economic reform.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt

    American Statesman, Soldier, and 26th President of the U.S.
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan

    was a U.S. Secretary of State as well as three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States.
  • Jane Adams

    Jane Adams

    Was a pioneer of American Settlement and considered the Mother of Social Work
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells

    An American newspaper journalist as well as early leader civil rights activist
  • Third Parties Politics

    Third Parties Politics

    Any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals
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    The Gilded Age

    An era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines

    Political organization in which an authoritative boss commands the support of a corps of businesses
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair

    American author that wrote nearly 100 books and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943
  • Civil Service Reform

    Civil Service Reform

    Law enacted in 1883 which established that positions in the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.
  • Haymarket Riot

    Haymarket Riot

    The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    Authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian land and divide it into lots for individual Indians.
  • Populism and Progressivism

    Populism and Progressivism

    Those who follow progressivism are mostly powerful poeple while those who support populism are the generally masses.
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    Klondike Gold Rush

    Migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada.
  • Initiative and Referendum

    Initiative and Referendum

    Three powers reserved to enable the voters to propose or repeal legislation to remove an elected official from office.
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker

    Term that characterized reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    Prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors.
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Dollar Diplomacy

    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.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    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.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State elected by the people thereof, for six years and each Senator shall have one vote.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Intended to establish a form of economic stability in the United States through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy.
  • Suffrage

    Suffrage

    The right of women to vote in elections.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Granted women the right to vote.
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    Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922.
  • American Dream and Immagration

    American Dream and Immagration

    Entering a country illegally looking for the american dream in the pursuit of opportunity, a good job, owning a home and in many cases, safety from war or persecution.