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A reformer of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, known especially for her work with women's suffrage.
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A U.S. policy by President James Monroe that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the U.S is hostile act against the US.
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Was a policy of the United States government where by native americans were forcibly removed from their homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River.
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An American industrial leader. Carnegie immigrated to the United States from Scotland without money and made millions in the steel industry.
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A term meaning social or economic system built on manufacturing industries.
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The belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
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A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Debs was five times the presidential candidate of the Socialist party. He was imprisoned in the 1890s for illegally encouraging a railway strike.
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A steel-making process in which carbon, silicon, and others are removed from molten iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a tilting retort.
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Was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was among the first attorneys to be called a labor lawyer.
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Roosevelt was president from 1901 to 1909. He became governor of New York in 1899, soon after leading a group of volunteer cavalrymen, the Rough Riders, in the Spanish-American War.
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Rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society
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American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States.
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Was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She created the first settlement house in the United States, Chicago's Hull House.
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The government provided settlers 160 acres of public land in exchange, homesteaders paid a small fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving the land.
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Was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 30s.
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Is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change.
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American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer, whose works reflect socialistic views. He gained public notoriety in 1906 with his novel The Jungle.
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Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers
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An organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses
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A law restricting immigration into the United States. The act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882.
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It was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. Also known as the Haymarket massacre.
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Was authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
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Was a form of journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration about others.
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Was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899.
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Are 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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A metaphor of social criticism originally applied to American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich.
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Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform.
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One who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders, from a speech in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt
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Used for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic and for other purposes.
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Is the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence on other countries.
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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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Established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states.
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Congress that created and established the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue notes.
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The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal.
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Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.
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Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the power of President Warren G. Harding.
