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| Manifest Destiny | Westward expansion was driven by this belief that Americans were destined to settle across the continent |
| Social Gospel | The religious revival that focused on the problems in the urban areas, people could gain salvation by serving the poor. |
| Homestead Act | This act motivated more Americans to settle in the west by promising 160 acres in exchange for cultivating land for 5 years |
| Americanization | Process by which immigrants and children of immigrants adopt to cultural and political norms of the land they have moved to. |
| Susan B. Anthony | She was one of the leaders of the women's rights movement and temperance movements, advocated the 19th amendment and arrested for trying to vote. |
| Frances Willard | Early education advocate and suffragette, and led the move to end the consumption of alcohol, called Temperance. |
| Sixteenth Amendment | Ratified in 1913 and created the Income Tax |
| Jane Addams | Created Hull House in Chicago, a settlement house designed to provide sum neighborhoods with education, child care and services |
| Populists | The political party represents the "common man," supported government intervention in business. In the 1896 election they supported William Jennings Bryan. |
| Upton Sinclair | Author of The Jungle exposing the horrible conditions of the meat-packing industry |
| Meat Inspection Act | This act was passed in 1906 to require truthful labelling products to protect consumers |
| Progressives | This party included mostly middle-class citizens and intellectuals who felt threatened by Big Business. Platform included political reforms, worker conditions and women's rights. |
| Referendum | This is a progressive era reform that allows a citizen to reject or accept a law passed by the legislature |
| Nineteenth Amendment | Granted women the vote |
| Anti-Trust Laws | Acts led by Teddy Roosevelt focused on dissolving unfair business consolidations or monopolies |
| Federal Reserve Act | Established a central banking system in 1913 and controls the nation's money supply |
| National Parks System | Established by Teddy Roosevelt under the Newlands Reclamation Act to preserve the natural scenery and wildlife for the American people. |
| Seventeenth Amendment | This amendment was passed to fight corruption at the state level through the direct election of senators by the people. |
| Recall | This progressive era reform gave voters the ability to remove an elected official from office in a special election |
| Eighteenth Amendment | Amendment that eliminated the legal manufacture and consumption of alcohol |
| Initiative | Progressive era reform gives voters the right to introduce a bill in the state legislature. |
| John J. Pershing | Led the Am. Expeditionary Force, trained US Troops in Europe and helped with the victory in the Battle of Argonne Forest |
| Submarine Warfare | After the sinking of the Lusitania, Germans promised to stop this unrestricted action. When they resumed it prompted US entry into WWI. |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Taft's economic policy of encouraging investment by US banks and businesses to maintain US world power. |
| Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's plan to reorganize Europe, establish self-determination, and create the League of Nations |
