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The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 established the Federal Trade Commission. The Act, signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1914, outlaws unfair methods of competition and outlaws unfair acts or practices that affect commerce.

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The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics.

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Moral diplomacy is a form of diplomacy proposed by US President Woodrow Wilson in his 1912 election. Moral diplomacy is the system in which support is given only to countries whose moral beliefs are analogous to that of the nation.

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Bull Moose Party, formally Progressive Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912.

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Dollar diplomacy of the United States was a form of 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.

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Founded by legendary conservationist John Muir in 1892, the Sierra Club is now the nation's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.John Muir was America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist.

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a fair bargain or treatment.

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After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

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The Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century.

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The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement 

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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is an active temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."

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Jane Addams, known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Hull House, one of the first social settlements in North America. It was founded in Chicago in 1889 when Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr rented an abandoned residence at 800 South Halsted Street that had been built by Charles G. Hull in 1856.

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The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ.

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"Wealth", more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth", is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.

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Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community.

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William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor who helped found the NAACP

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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

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The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. The fire led to safety laws for factories and other workplaces

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The Children’s Bureau is the first federal agency within the U.S. Government to focus exclusively on improving the lives of children and families.

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The Sherman Antitrust Act is a federal law prohibiting any contract, trust, or conspiracy in restraint of interstate or foreign trade.The purpose of the Clayton Act was to give more enforcement teeth to the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

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The origins of the National Woman's Party (NWP) date from 1912, when Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, young Americans schooled in the militant tactics of the British suffrage movement, were appointed to the National American Woman Suffrage Association's (NAWSA) Congressional Committee. T

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The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed on February 18, 1890 to work for women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).

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Initiative, referendum, and recall are three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. Proponents of an initiative, referendum, or recall effort must apply for an official petition serial number from the Town Clerk.

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The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.

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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.

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Interstate Commerce Commission former independent agency of the U.S. government, established in 1887; it was charged with regulating the economics and services of specified carriers engaged in transportation between states.

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William Jennings Bryan & the Cross of Gold Speech

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William Jennings Bryan & the Cross of Gold Speech

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William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896.

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·In the election of 1896, unlimited silver coinage vs. the gold standard brought out the same kind of emotions as gun control, abortion, or immigration today. In that year, the gold standard was adopted. But silver coinage was added five years later, after an economic depression.

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The populist party, commonly known as the Omaha Platform, called for the abolition of national banks, a graduated income tax, direct election of Senators, civil service reform, a working day of eight hours and Government control of all railroads, telegraphs, and telephones.

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A fraternal organization of white farmers and other rural southerners, including teachers, ministers, and physicians, the Farmers' Alliance began in Texas in the mid-1870s and swept across the entire South during the late 1880s.

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a fraternal organization in the United States that encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture.

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The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s.

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In 1845, Tiffany's Blue Book was the first mail-order catalogue in the United States. In 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy founded Macy's as a dry goods store.

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Charles Dana Gibson was an American graphic artist, best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century.

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A union-organizing term that refers to the practice of allowing only unionized employees to work for a particular company. The AFL became known for negotiating closed shop agreements with employers, in which the employer would agree not to hire non-union members.

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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law.

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This was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.

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On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing.

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year.

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The Industrial Workers of the World, members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America.

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Established in 1886, the American Federation of Labor is an umbrella organization for other unions. In 1881, Samuel Gompers took the lead in organizing the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States of America and Canada.

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Knights of Labor, the first important national labor organization in the United States, was founded in 1869. Named the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor by its first leader, Uriah Smith Stephens, it originated as a secret organization meant to protect its members from employer retaliations.

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John Pierpont Morgan Sr. was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in America in his time and one of the first major tycoons. He founded the Standard Oil Company, a monopoly that was eventually dissolved.

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Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt, also known informally as "Commodore Vanderbilt", was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping.

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a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices

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The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

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Monopolies trusts and holding companies 

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Monopolies are total control of a type of industry by one person or one company. A holding company is a company whose primary business is owning a controlling share of stock in other companies. A trust a combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition

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Vertical Integration is a competitive strategy by which a company takes complete control over one or more stages in the production or distribution of a product. Horizontal Integration is the process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain.

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Social Darwinsim is a term that was coined in the late 19th century to describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest."

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An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.

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management of a business, industry, or economy, according to principles of efficiency derived from experiments in methods of work and production, especially from time-and-motion studies.

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Reformers use it to call for a modernization of society and attitudes, to integrate more fully with the United States, and reject the economy and traditions of the Old South and the slavery-based plantation system of the antebellum period. The term was coined by its leading spokesman and Atlanta editor Henry W. Grady.

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In economics, this means allowing industry to be free of state intervention, especially restrictions in the form of tariffs and government monopolies. A theory that the laws of evolution by natural selection also apply to social structures.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

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Thomas Nast was a political cartoonist considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon.” Born in Landau, Germany, Nast's family immigrated to New York City when he was six.

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Tammany Hall, William "Boss" Tweed, and George W. Plunki

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Tammany Hall, William "Boss" Tweed, and George W. Plunki

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George W. Plunkitt was a Tammany politician who wielded clout in NYC for decades. He amassed a fortune by engaging in various schemes which he always claimed had been "honest graft. Tammany Hall also served as an engine for graft and political corruption, perhaps most infamously under William Tweed in the mid-19th century.

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In countries outside the United States of America, Americanization or Americanisation is the influence American culture and business has on other countries, such as their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, technology, or political techniques

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The American Protective Association was an American anti-Catholic secret society established in 1887 by Protestants. The organization was the largest anti-Catholic movement in the United States during the latter part of the 19th century, showing particular regional strength in the Midwest.

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Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. His writing is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.

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an ethnic enclave is a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity. The term is usually used to refer to either a residential area or a workspace with a high concentration of ethnic firms.

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Angel Island Immigration Station was an immigration station located in San Francisco Bay which operated from January 21, 1910 to November 5, 1940, where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated.

Ellis Island in the harbor of New York City, southwest of Manhattan. From 1892 to 1954, it served as the prime immigration station of the country. Some twelve million immigrants passed through it during this time.

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One of the greatest periods of immigration occured during the 1800s to the 1920s, when two waves of immigrants came to American shores from Europe.

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Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster movement or Exodus of 1879.

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There were 4 financial panics during this time period, the panic of 1819, the panic of 1837, the panic of 1857, and the panic of 1873

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The Solid South or Southern bloc was the electoral voting bloc of the states of the Southern United States for issues that were regarded as particularly important to the interests of Democrats in the southern states. The southern states of the United States became "solid" behind the Democratic Party following the Civil War.

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The Mugwumps were Republican political activists who bolted from the United States Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United States presidential election of 1884.

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The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.

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Half-breeds were a political faction of the United States Republican Party in the late 19th century. Stalwarts were in favor of political machines and spoils system-style patronage, while the Half-breeds were in favor of civil service reform and a merit system.

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The Specie Payment resumption act of January 14, 1875 was a law in the United States that restored the nation to the gold standard through the redemption of previously-unbacked United States Notes and reversed inflationary government policies promoted directly after the American Civil War.

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The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain

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The federal government began sending American Indians to off-reservation boarding schools in the 1870s, when the United States was still at war with Indians. An Army officer, Richard Pratt, founded the first of these schools.

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An act that broke up Indian reservations and distributed land to individual households. Leftover land was sold for money to fund U.S. government efforts to "civilize" Native Americans.

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These treaties, which took much time and effort to finalize, ceased with the passage of the Indian Appropriations Act 1871, declaring that “no Indian nation or tribe” would be recognized “as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty.”

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The system that allocated land with designated boundaries to native americans. The battle of little bighorn. A particular violent battle between whites and native Americans,also known as Custer's last stand. Battle of wounded knee. A battle between the us army and the Dakota sioux. Dawes severalty act.

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The American Indian Wars, or Indian Wars is the collective name for the various armed conflicts fought by European governments and colonists, and later American governments or their settlers, against the native peoples of North America.

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The ghost dance is a spiritual movement that came about in the late 1880s when conditions were bad on Indian reservations and Native Americans needed something to give them hope.

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Buffalo soldiers originally were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the Negro Cavalry by Native American tribes who fought in the Indian Wars.

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Any aboandoned city, town, or village can be considered a ghost town. A boomtowns is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch.

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Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.

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The single most influential interpretation of the American past, it proposed that the distinctiveness of the U.S. was attributable to its long history of “westering.”

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The First Transcntinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska, and Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.