-
Immigration and the American Dream
The american dream is to be free. At the same time the immigrants wanted a full american identity -
Bessemer Process
A steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort. -
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 Americans is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
Indian Removal Act
a policy of the United States government in the 19th century whereby Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River, thereafter known as Indian Territory. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist that led the steel industry. In 1864 Andrew invested $40,000 in a oil company, which was booming at a massive level at the time, quickly moving him up to the several hundred thousand dollar range and allowing him to move himself forward in the economy. -
Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. -
Industrialization
is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one, involving the extensive reorganization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the beginning and the thought of movement west. It also helped with the thought of the American Dream -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Debs was a union leader and one of the founding members of the IWW. Eugene also was a candidate for the Socialist party of America several times and eventually became one of the best known socialists in America. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. Roosevelt was a leader of the republican party and was a driving force in the progressive era for the U.S. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was an American Public Speaker and politician from Nebraska, and a major part of the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Jane Addams
She was a pioneer woman, and activist for women's rights and Anti-war. She was mainly known for her work as a social reformer -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Period: to
Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1910. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 30s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American author with almost 100 titles under his belt. Also a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1943, Upton gained fame throughout his career and is well known for his writings of an Industrialized America from the viewpoint of the working man. He was an Original Muckraker with his style of writing. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Massacre or Haymarket riot was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration -
Dawe's Act
adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Muckraker
This was used to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines. -
Klondike God Rush
The 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. -
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. Proponents of an initiative, referendum, or recall effort must apply for an official petition serial number from the Town Clerk. -
Yellow Journalism
journalism that is based upon crude exaggeration.During its heyday in the late 19th century it was one of many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, -
Political Machines
A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This Act prevented 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 no incomes, from whatever source derived without apportionment among the several states and regard to any census or enumeration -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.From 1909 to 1913, President William Howard Taft created a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy.” -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. President William Howard Taft created a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy.” -
Ubanization
it is a population shift from rural to urban areas and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. -
Urbanization
it is a population shift from rural to urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. -
17th Amendment
When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. -
16th amendment
The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes no incomes, from whatever source derived without apportionment among the several states and regard to any census or enumeration -
Federal Reserve Act
This is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes -
18th amendment
Declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
18th Amendment
Declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
19th Amendment
This amendment gave women voting rights. -
19th amendment
Constitution granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote.
