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The process of making and area more urban
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a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses
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People from other foreign countries coming into american for the "american dream" which is freedom and liberty but they come to find out that they are unexpected some times kicked out not well paid work conditions were awful causing many deaths forces to live in tiny cramped apartments with no bathroom
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is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organisation
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a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
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was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.
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An American industrial leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries carnegie a self made man immigrated to the United States from Scotland without money and made millions in the steel industry.
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Versus "robber baron" Some 19th-century industrialists who were called "captains of industry" overlap with those called "robber barons". These include people such as J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W. Mellon, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller.
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the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
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the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. However, this is currently more commonly described as an anti-immigrant position.
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was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
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encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
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American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
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The 1st significant law restricting immigrants into the united states passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration.
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was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians
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was an african-american journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.She also lead a anti lynching crusade and went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice
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support of concern for ordinary people
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the support for or advocacy of social reform. As a philosophy, it is based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancements in science, technology, economic development
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is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended.
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was a U.S. lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for economic reform He was known for his defense of unpopular causes and persons, including Eugene V. Debs
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was an American orator and politician from Nebraska he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States.
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was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada
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Pulitzer's paper the New York World and Hearst's New York Journal changed the content of newspapers adding more sensationalized stories and increasing the use of drawings and cartoons.
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For preventing 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.
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was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines.
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was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age.
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was president from 1901 to 1909 he became governor of New York in 1899 soon after leading a group of volunteer cavalry and served in the Spanish-American War.
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particularly during President William Howard Taft's term— 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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labour organizer and socialist party candidate for U.S. president five times
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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
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allow citizens of many U.S. states to place new legislation on a popular ballot, or to place legislation that has recently been passed by a legislature on a ballot for a popular vote.
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s defined as the time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings and many wealthy people lived very fancy lives.
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The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States during the administration of President Warren G. Harding
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known as the mother of social work was a pioneer american settlement reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace won the nobel peace prize
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American writer who wrote just about one hundred books and other works in several genres Sinclair's work was very popular in the first half of the twentieth century and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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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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the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal
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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 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.
