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American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
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The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of approximately 100,000 Native Americans in the 1830s. It is important because of how many Indians died and its direct relation with the Manifest Destiny and the Dawes act
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." freed slaves can't get more important than that
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Reconstruction ended the remnants of Confederate secession and abolished slavery, making the newly freed slaves citizens with civil rights ostensibly guaranteed by three new constitutional amendments.
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American imperialism consists of policies aimed at extending the political, economic and cultural influence of the United States over areas beyond its boundaries
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All people born in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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Tumultuous years between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century.
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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 race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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An armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year. Caused Carnegie to look for and advertise more uses for steel
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Authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens.
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A domestic massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people, by soldiers of the United States Army.
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Carnegie Steel Company was a steel-producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates
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On Jan. 17, 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate
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US Supreme Court upheld constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.
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The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine
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After 450 amendments, the Tariff Act of 1890 was passed and increased average duties across all imports from 38% to 49.5% Promoted U.S. business.
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Progressivism is a political philosophy in support of social reform. Based on the idea of progress in which advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization
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Following the failure of a French construction team in the 1880s, the United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus in 1904
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By the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. The novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
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The purity of food, milk and drinking water became a high priority in the cities. At the state and national levels new food and drug laws strengthened urban efforts to guarantee the safety of the food system. The 1906 federal Pure Food and Drug Act. No more accidently getting Ashlyn's casserole
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By eliminating competition, trusts could charge whatever price they chose. Progressives advocated legislation that would break up these trusts, known as "trust busting." Standard Oil Company and Trust does not still exist. It was dissolved However, some companies that were part of the trust persisted and, over time, merged with others
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The Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 also known as Wick's Bill, was a short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor
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One hundred years ago on March 25, fire spread through the cramped Triangle Waist Company garment factory on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of the Asch Building in lower Manhattan. Workers in the factory, many of whom were young women recently arrived from Europe, had little time or opportunity to escape.
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The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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For most of America's prohibition era, alcohol consumption was the most significant form of protest. Gangsters were taking hold of America's cities, and increasing levels of violence accompanied bootlegging and liquor smuggling.
