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16th Amendments
Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes -
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18th Amendment
Intoxicating liquors are not prohibited -
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Susan B. Anthony
American social reformer and women's rights activist. Played a major part in the women's suffrage movement -
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industrialization
The development of industries -
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Andrew Carnegie
Built a steel mill in Pittsburgh after the civil war. With his profits he bought more mills and founded the Carnegie steel corporation in 1892. -
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Labor Strikes
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Alexander Graham Bell
invented the first telephone -
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Jacob Riis
was a muckraker journalist -
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Muckracker
Reformed journalist who attacked leaders as corrupt -
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Nativism
Favoring inhabitants as opposed to immigrants -
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Populism & Progressivism
Populism wanted to reform the economic system and Progressivism wanted to bring the political reforms. -
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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 -
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Samuel Gompers
labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history -
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Tenement
overcrowded apartment house in a poor section of a large city -
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Eugene V. Debbs
A founder of the industrial workers of the world. Candidate for the socialist party of America. -
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Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
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William Jennings Bryan
was a American orator and a politician. -
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Political machines
a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city county or state. -
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Labor Unions
organized association of workers that often in a trade or profession formed to protect and further their rights and interests. -
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The Gilded Age
Time between the civil war and would war 1 during U.S. population -
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Dollar Diplomacy
use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence -
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Jane Addams
Created the full house, was a pioneer -
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Ida B. wells
Investigative journalist educator and a early leader of the civil rights movement. -
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Federal Reserve Act
Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System -
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Bessemer steel Production
first inexpensive industrial process -
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Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. -
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Haymarket Riot
someone threw a bomb at police. -
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Interstate Commerce Act
Federal law to regulate railroad industry -
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Settlement house
cultural centers established by reformers in slum areas of American cities -
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Robber Barons
business men who had questionable practices to amass their wealth. -
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Sherman Antitrust Act
First federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practice -
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Klondike Gold Rush
People moved to find gold in the Klondike -
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th president, was also the leader of the Rough Riders. -
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Pure food and Drug act
Law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale -
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17th Amendment
United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State -
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19th Amendment
granted women the right to vote -
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Upton Sinclair
American writer and won the Pulitzer prize for fiction. -
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Tea pot dome scandal
oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company