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Manifest Destiny
The widely hed belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
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Immigrants and the American dream.
Immigrants have been fleeing from their home countries to ours, because of how much better our country is then theirs'. They come seeking work and education with we offer. -
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Industrialization and Urbanization
Industrialization has been a very big part of America and its growing, along with making it what it is today. Urbanization has served a role in feeding America's growing population and right to preserve land. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. She was a big part of the Women's rights movements in 1852. Soon after, she dedicated the rest of her life to helping women's sufferage. -
Indian Removal Act
A law that was passed by Congress during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Souther United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in the exchange for their homelands. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugine Victor Debs, a former Indiana senator who became the president of the United States from 1885 to 1889. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow, best known for being an American lawyer and a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Best court case: Defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trail for murding 14 year old Robert Bobby Franks. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was born and threw the years became known as a pioneer American settlement worker, public philosohper, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
Any one who had never taken up arms against the U.S government, was 21, or the head of a family could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American Journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
The Gilded Age
An era of rapid economic growth, especially in the north and West. -
Haymarket Riot
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstraiton. -
Dawes Act
Dawes act gave the Preisdent of the United States the right to surbey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual indians. -
Andrew Carnegie (The Gospel of Wealth)
Andrew Carnegie wrote a book called "The Gospel of Wealth" which was about how the rich could improve society and stimulate a wave of philanthropy threw their wealth. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
A migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
20th Century Social Gospel
The movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that most prominent in the early 20th century in the United States and Canada. -
Political Machines
A political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group of commands the support of a corps of supporters and bussinesses. -
The Muckrakers
Most commonly associated with the Progressive Era period of American history. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt was officially made president of the United States and/or in office. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The first of a series of significant consumer preotection laws enacted by the Fereral Government in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
Upton Sinclair (the Jungle)
Upton Sinclair published a book called "The Jungle" about the newly found immigrants who had come over to the United States. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
The effort of the United States - particularly over President William Howard Taft - 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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16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments
A group of amendments set in place around the time of the first World War, and abolishing a lot of women's restrictions. Along with giving them rights. (also putting in work laws, like child labor laws for example). -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Byran was first put into office in 1913, and was the 41st United States Secretary of State. -
Federal Reserve Act
Created and set up the Feral Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. -
Teaport Dome scandal
A bribery incident that took place in the United States.
