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Immigration & the American Dream
The promise of freedom and opportunity continues to lure foreigners to the United States, even though stories of hardship and isolation comprise the bulk of American immigrant literature. Having reached the promised land -
Indian Removal
Indian removal was a 19th-century policy of ethnic cleansing by the government of the United States to move Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. -
Leading
led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Political Machine
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 -
Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Suffrage
In many languages, the right to vote is called the active right to vote and the right to run for office is called the passive right to vote. In English, these are sometimes called active suffrage and passive suffrage -
Homestead Act
several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. -
Civil Service Reform
Civil Service Reform in the U.S. was a major issue in the late 19th century at the national level, and in the early 20th century at the state level. -
Nativism
Nativism typically means opposition to immigration, and support of efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups who are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, upon the assumption that they cannot be assimilated. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe, which attracted millions of immigrants. -
Urbanization & Industrialization
Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, placing a ten-year ban on Chinese immigration -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration -
Third Party
The term third party is used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties -
Hull House
Among its offerings were classes on Shakespeare, classical music concerts, and discussions of fine art. -
Populism and Progressivism
he Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s -
Clarence Darrow
two years after having given up a lucrative job as corporation counsel for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway to represent Eugene Debs, head of the railroad union, Darrow attended the 1896 Democratic National Convention as a member of the Illinois delegation. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, the Canadian Gold Rush, and the Last Great Gold Rush, was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
Pure Food and Drug Act
was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
Amendments
16th Amendment authorized Congress to levy an income tax. 1913 - 17th Amendment gave the power to elect senators to the people. Senators had previously been appointed by the legislatures of their states. 1919 - 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. 1920 - 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. -
Dollar Diplomacy
President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy.” -
Federal Reserve Act
Act is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
Teddy Roosevelt
was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States.[ -
Social Gospel
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Tea Pot
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States -
William Jennings Bryan
was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic PartyWil -
EUGENE V. DEBS
began his rise to prominence in Indiana’s Terre Haute lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. -
Ida B. Wells
was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites -
Upton Sinclair
He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
In the politics of the United States, initiative and referendum is a process that allows citizens of many U.S. -
Muckraker
uckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate -
The Dawes Act
marked a departure from earlier policies that were dominated by removal, treaties, reservations, and even war. -
Susan B. Anthony
Anthony traveled, lectured, and canvassed across the nation for the vote. She also campaigned for the abolition of slavery, the right for women to own their own property and retain their earnings, and she advocated for women's labor organizations
