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Urbanization
An increase in a population in cities and towns versus rural areas. -
Industrialization
he Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. -
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people ever. -
Manifest Destiny
The American expansion reaching coast to coast and that americans were destined to do this. -
Immigration and the American Dream
Immigrants associate the American dream with opportunity, a good job and home ownership. The United States offers a less hierarchical society that provides more opportunity than many other countries, while allowing immigrants to assume a fully American identity. -
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 (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts -
Jane Addams
"mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Chinese exclusion Act of 1882
law restricting immigration into the United StatesThis act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Homestead Act
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. -
Populism
Political parties and politicians often use the terms populist and populism as pejoratives against their opponents. Such a view sees populism as demagogy, merely appearing to empathize with the public through rhetoric or unrealistic proposals in order to increase appeal across the political spectrum. -
Initiative & Referendum
Initiative, referendum, and recall are 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. -
Social Gospel
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. -
The Gilded Age
period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. -
Haymarket Riot
Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works. -
Dawes Act
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Ida B Wells
an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Yellow Journalism
journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. -
Clarence Darrow
an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
Progressivism
Progressivism is 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, and social organization are vital to the improvement of the human condition. -
Susan B Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Klondike Gold 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 -
Recall
A recall election (also called a recall referendum or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended. -
Nativism
Definition of nativism. 1 :a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation. -
Theodore Roosevelt
His presidency established the progressive movement with credibility, and the conservation movement. He desired to make society more fair and equitable, with economic possibilities for all Americans -
Muckracker
one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," -
Pure food and Drug 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. -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair wrote the Jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
16th Amendment
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. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar diplomacy of the United States—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. -
William Jennings Bryan
supporters viewed him as a champion of liberal causes. He was influential in the eventual adoption of such reforms as popular election of senators, income tax, creation of a Department of Labor, Prohibition, and woman suffrage. Throughout his career, his Midwestern roots clearly identified him with agrarian interests -
Federal reserve Act
a U.S. legislation that created the current Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability in the United States through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy. -
Eugene V . Debs
formed the Socialist Party. In the election of 1912 he received over 900,000 votes. After being arrested for antiwar activities during World War I, he ran for President from his jail cell and polled 919,000 votes. Debs died in 1926 having never won an election, but over one thousand Socialist Party members were elected to state and city governments. -
18th Amendement
effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol -
19th Amendment
provides men and women with equal voting rights. The amendment states that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." -
TeaPot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Robber Barons
"Robber baron" is a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich. -
17th Amendment
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.
