Key Term Timeline

  • Muckraker

    Muckraker
    A Muckraker is someone who searches for and exposes rel or alleged corruption, scandal or the like, expecially in politics.
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny
    Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the united states that american settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    Susan Brownwell Anthony was an american social reformer who played a pivotal role in the womens suffrage movement. She was born on February 15, 1820 and died on March 13, 1906.
  • Indian Removal

    Indian Removal
    Moved Native Americans tribes living in the east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    Andrew Carnegie was a sccotish american industrialist who led the huge steel industry in the 19th century. He was born November 25, 1835 and died on August 11,1919.
  • Eugene V. Debbs

    Eugene V. Debbs
    Eugene V. Debbs was a great man. He was an American union leader, one of the following members of the industrial workers of the world, a candidate of the socialist party of america for the president of the united states. He was born on November 5, 1855 and died on October 20, 1926
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow
    Clarence Seward Darrow was an american lawyer and leading member of the american civil liberties union. He was born on April 18,1857 and died on March 13, 1938
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt was a american politician he also served as the 26th president of the united states of america. He was born on October 27, 1858 and died on January 6th, 1919
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan
    William Jennings Bryan was a leading American politician. He was born on March 19, 1860 and died in July 26, 1925.
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    Jane Addams was a Pioneer American settlement social worker, author, leader and much more. She was born on September 6, 1860 and die on May 21, 1935.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    The homestead act was a application to claim federal land grant. Abraham Lincoln is the one that set it in law.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells
    Ida Bell Wells- Barnett was an African- American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was born on July 16, 1862 and died on March 25, 1931.
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush
    The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the region of the Yukon in north western Canada between 1896 and 1899.
  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age
    Was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. Took place during the late 19th century.
  • Social Gospel

    Social Gospel
    Is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair was an american author who wrote many books. He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century. He was born on September 20, 1878 and died on November 25, 1968.
  • Haymarket Riot

    Haymarket Riot
    The Haymarket Riot took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
  • The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act
    The dawes act gave indians the oppurtinity to get land and the US citizenship.
  • Nativism

    Nativism
    It is the policy of protecting the interests of native born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
  • Third Parties Politics

    Third Parties Politics
    Used in United States for any and all political parties
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act
    The purpose of the Pure Food and Drug Act was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products.
  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Tea Pot Dome Scandal
    Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923
  • Suffrage

    Suffrage
    The right to vote in political election
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    An Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System.