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Susan B. Anthony
She was on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Anthony's family was very active in the reform movements of the day. -
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Andrew Carnegie
He was one of the richest men in the world in early 20th century. -
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Manifest Destiny
The idea that the Americans will settle all the land between Atlantic and Pacific Ocean -
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Eugene V. Debbs
He was an American union leader, 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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Theodore Roosvevelt
He was born in New York City. Educated at Harvard, he was an historian and a naturalist. -
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William Jennings Bryan
He was noted orator and politician of his time. He began by supporting such reforms as the income tax, prohibition, and women's stuffrage. -
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Jane Addams
She is best known as the founder of Hull House where she provided help for poor immigrants who had come to Chicago. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. -
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Upton Sinclair
He was born in Maryland. Throughout his childhood, he saw both the poor and the privileged sides of society. -
Nativism
Protecting America from immigrants. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significent restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Riot was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demostration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
The Dawes Act
It adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land divide it into alloments for individual Indians. -
Muckracker
Journalist who exposed society problems. Example is "How the other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
It was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 to 1899. Gold was discovered there on August 16, 1896 and, when new reached Seattle and San Franciso the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors. -
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Social Gospel
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Pure Food and Drug Act
It was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Adminstration. -
Federal Reserve Act
An act of Congress that created and set up the "Federal Reverse System", the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue "Federal Reserve Notes" (now commonly known as the U.S. dollar) and "Federal Reserve Bank Notes" as legal tender -
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
It was a bibery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Suffrage
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote-a right known as women suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female ciizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote.
