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Invented the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
Gave away free or cheap land.
Homestead Act
Prohibited slavery throughout the United States.
13th Amendment
Helped former slaves adjust to freedom.
The Freedman Bureau
Congress passed this law in order to regulate unfair practices by railroads.
Interstate Commerce Act
Journalists and writers who exposed abuses.
Muckrakers
Limited the number of Japanese immigrants.
The Gentleman's Agreement
The belief that Americans were superior to others.
Nativism
Prohibited states from denying any citizen the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Repealed the Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Author of “The Jungle”
Upton Sinclair
A product that removed the impurities from iron.
Bessemer Process
A corrupt political machine in New York City.
Tammany Hall
Nationwide union for skilled and unskilled labor.
Knights of Labor
Farmer associations formed this party.
Populist
Federal government intervenes in strikes.
Injunction
The U.S. Army is defeated by Chief Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in South Dakota.
The Battle of Little Big Horn
The Supreme Court upheld racial segregation “separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
He was a satirical artist of political cartoons.
Thomas Nast
A goal was to repair the political and economic injustices.
The Progressive Movement
The author of this book exposed Rockefellers ruthless business practices in “History of the Standard Oil Company”.
Ida Tarbell
Allowed for the possibility of slavery in the new western territories.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Attempt to Americanize Native American's.
Dawes Act
Little government interference in economic capitalism.
Laissez Faire
Author of “How the Other Half Live”
Jacob Riis