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Urbanization
Urbanization was the growth of cities due to immigration and migration it provided cheap labor for industries. -
robber baron
robber baron was a metaphor of social criticism applied to the late 19th century businessmen. that used dishonest ways to get rich. -
immigration and the american dream
immigration and the american dream was the dream of freedom and equality, or a fulfilled life. it was the opportunity for everyone to achieve their goals. -
industrialization
industrialization occurred in the north. factory work replaced farm work. -
monroe doctrine
monroe doctrine was a policy set by president monroe that the us opposed further european colonization, and interference with the western hemisphere. -
social gospel
social gospel was announced to improve the economic, moral, and social conditions of the urban poor. -
indian removal
indian removal was that of the southern Indian tribes removed to federal territory in exchange for their lands. -
Bessemer Process
Bessemer Process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel. -
Nativism
Nativism was the belief that white americans were superior to all other races. -
Political Machines
Political Machines is a group that has control over the activities of a political party. -
Homestead Act
Homestead Act was a government program to encourage settlers to move out west -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement. she helped get the 19th amendment to the constitution, giving women the right to vote. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a major Philanthropist, and was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry. -
The Gilded Age
Gilded Age was between the Civil War and World War I, which made the U.S. population and economy increase including a lot of political corruption -
Chinese Exclusion
Chinese Exclusion was the first law to prevent Chinese men from immigrating to the United States. -
Haymarket Riot
Haymarket Riot was what happened after the bombing that took place at a labor demonstration -
Dawes Act
Dawes Act was a law that provided families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party -
Progressivism
Progressivism was applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems industrialization introduced to America -
Eugene V. Debs
Debs was in the rail road industry, he formed the American Railroad Union. Two years later he was leading one of the largest strikes in history, The Great Pullman Strike. Was when workers refused to accept a payment cut. -
Populism
Populism was a populist political party in the United States. for the people to fight low prices with a high cost. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist, news paper editor, and was an early leader in the Civil rights. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Klondike Gold Rush was that of a thousands of people in the 1890s toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there. -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow Journalism was a type of journalism that has little to no legitimate researched news -
Initiative and Referendum
Initiative and Referendum was the making of Legislators proposing a law and voters voting on it -
theodore roosevelt
Theodore roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. he was also an author soldier and American statesman. -
Muckrakers
Muckrakers provided detailed and accurate journalist accounts of the political and economic corruption -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair wrote the book, The Jungle. It portrayed the harsh conditions & exploited lives of immigrants in the US in Chicago and similar cities. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Pure Food and Drug Act prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy was made to ensure the financial stability of a region -
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability in the United States -
16th-17th-18th and 19th Amendments
16th- allowed government to collect an income tax from all Americans. 1913
17th- allowed the election of 2 U.S senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of 6 years 1913
18th- prohibited the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors 1919
19th- allowed women to vote for their president 1920 -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a founder of the Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom. She worked to help the poor and stop the use of children as industrial laborers. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal involved a former US Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow"s family was against slavery, their home was a station along the underground Railroad. They wanted to help slaves to the north.
