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Urbanization
When the 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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Susan B. Anthony
American social reformer and women's rights advocate who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Monroe Doctrine
A principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
Indian Removal Act
Was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He is often identified as one of the richest people and one of the richest Americans ever. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He is often identified as one of the richest people and one of the richest Americans ever. -
Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Bessemer process
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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Eugene V. Debbs
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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Clarence Darrow
American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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Clarence Darrow
American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States -
Robber Baron
Derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich. -
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William Jennings Bryan
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. -
Homestead Acts
Several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land at little or no cost. -
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Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As American wages were much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants. -
Social Gospel
Was a Protestant movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war. -
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Upton Sinclair
American writer of nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Comedy in 1943. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration, it was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
Haymarket Riot
Was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
This act authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship. -
Yellow Journalism
Type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. -
Initiative, Referendum & Recall
Three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
Muckraker
The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An Act preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
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
Established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Form against 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. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act created a system of private and public entities. -
18th Amendment.
This amendment stablished the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. -
Teapot Dome scandal
Wvas a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Industrialism
A social or economic system built on manufacturing industries. -
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Jane Addams
An American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of I Hate Hamlet in 1991, and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival of An Inspector Calls.