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indian removal act
The Indian Removal Act is a law that was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. -
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. -
Susan b anthony women's rights
Anthony traveled the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women’s rights organizations. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
homestead act of 1862
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 and progressivism timeline
socio-economic and political reforms while populism was more anti-capitalistic that favored agrarianism while opposing drastic modernization. -
Dollar Diplomacy the gilded age and the progressive
That global status which Wilson enjoyed briefly was quite different from the minimal role that the United States had played in world affairs in 1877. This transition resulted from major developments both in the United States and throughout the world. -
political machines gilded age
political culture lay political parties that were largely indistinguishable from one another on most matters of policy and an electorate that chose sides more on the basis of ethnicity, religion, and culture than ideology or policy. -
civil service reform act of 1883 apush
The Pendleton Act of 1883 was the federal legislation that created a system in which federal employees were chosen based upon competitive exams. This made job positions based on merit or ability and not inheritance or class. It also created the Civil Service Commission. ECONOMIC. -
Haymarket Riot
the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act of 1887
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. -
Eugene v. debs Pullman Strike
The unified power of railroad management working intimately with federal authorities broke the strike. -
William Jennings bryan cross of gold speech
On the 4th of March, 1895, a few Democrats, most of them members of Congress, issued an address to the Democrats of the nation asserting that the money question was the paramount issue of the hour; asserting also the right of a majority of the Democratic Party -
klondike gold rush
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 between 1896 and 1899. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. The first state to adopt the initiative was South Dakota in 1898. -
Ida b wells civil rights
the Civil War before Confederate Mississippi surrendered in 1865 and the slaves were freed -
the gilded age
The Gilded Age, which spanned the final three decades of the nineteenth century, was one of the most dynamic, contentious, and volatile periods in American history. -
Andrew Carnegie steel business
Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry, controlling the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by an individual in the United States. -
industrialization urbanization 19th century
In the 19th century, a new American culture was developing from a mix of new immigrants from a variety of ethnic and religious groups. -
Muckraker
The term muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative -
pure food and drug act of 1906
The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation -
Teddy Roosevelt nobel prize
Known for his anti-monopoly policies and ecological conservationism, Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in ending the Russo-Japanese Wa -
social gospel
In the late 19th century, many Protestants were disgusted by the poverty level and the low quality of living in the slums. The social gospel movement provided a religious rationale for action to address those concerns -
Third Parties Politics
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 -
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
Jane Addams women's peace party
The peace and suffrage movements were definitively united when a plank calling for the vote for women was successfully added to the party platform. -
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th 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. -
Immigration & the American Dream
The nativists were to speak against immigration and use propaganda to convince the public.The American Dream originated in the early days of the American settlement, with the mostly poor immigrants searching for opportunities. It was first manifested in the Declaration of Independence -
Suffrag movement
the legal right of women to vote in that country, was established over the course of several decades, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1920. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Clarence darrow scopes trial
Free thought in America did not depend on the acquittal of a public school teacher in Tennessee; humanizing institutions did not hang in the balance. -
Upton sinclair social security
begin with factory production, because that is the part of our system capable of most rapid expansion, and in which EPIC will produce the most striking results. -
klondike gold rush
The Yukon Gold Rush was at north-western Canada.Somewhere in the Yukon region.They discovered that lots of gold was along
the Klondike river