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Muckraker
reform-minded journalist who wrote largely for all popular magizines, they carried on the tradition of investigative journalism. -
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Civil Service Reform
It was a federal law that abolished the civil commission. -
Indian Removal
Law passed on May 28, 2014 it authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the south for the exchange of the west territory for their homelands -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the intrests of native born or established inhabitants aganist those of immigrants -
Manifest Destiny
the 19th century doctraine of belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughtout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Homestead Act
Law that said anyone that had taken up arms aganist the U.S. gov. was 21 years or older or the head of the house could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Susan B. Anthony
Advocate for womans suffrage Susan B. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 -
Social Gospel
Movement in the Prostestant Christian intellectutual movement that was the most prominent in the early 20th century U.S. and Canada -
Gilded Age
Those who achieved wealth celebrated as though never before. People spent money at the opera, the theatre, lavish parties, especially in New York City -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene V. Debbs was a labor organizer and socialist leader who in 1885 was elected into the Indianna State Assembly. -
Haymarket Riot
was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstation on may 4, 1886 at Haymarket square in Chicago -
Dawes Act
transfer if reservation lands ti whites through political processes. -
William Jennings Bryan
William J. Bryan was a democratic Nebraska congressman who believed in prohibition, suffrage, and the teaching of evolution. He was elected to congress -
Theodore Roosevelt
President Mckinley dies from his gunshot wounds and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as President. -
Andrew Carnegie
In 1901 Andrew Carnegie sold Carnegie Steel for 480 million (13.6 billion today) becoming one of the richest men in the world. -
Upton Sinclaire
Upton Sinclaire published a novel that was ment to focus on the horrible conditions in the meat packing industry in 20th century America. Instead the novel appalled citizens of the unhealthy sanitations in the meat packing factory -
Pure Food and Drug Act
made it to where food had to be passed and certified to be sold, consumed, and processed -
16th Amendment
The congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes -
17th Amendment
It allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators -
Federal Reserve Act
It created and set-up a central banking system of the U.S. it also granted the authority to print Federal reserve notes and that they were acknowledge as legal tender. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Taft shared a view that the goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order abroad that would best promote American commercial intrests -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams, a social rights activist, wrote to President Woodrow Wilson warning him of entering the first world war. -
18th Amendment
It prohibitated the production, sale , manufacture of alcohol. It was appealed on December 5, 1933 -
!9th Amendment
Allowed woman the right to vote -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was one of the many woman that fought for the right of womans suffrage. She was best known as a crusading journalist and womans rights activist. She particpated in the suffraeg march throughtout President Woodrow WIlson's speech. -
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Tea Pot Scandal
was a bribery incident that took place in the U.S. during the administration of Warren G. Harding -
Immigration and the American Dream
the American Dream everyone wants to experience this work decently and nice reward, but when youcome from other countries to persue this dream you are considered an immigrant -
Urbanization
bussiness and industrialization centered in the cities the ever increasing number of jobs began to draw people to the cities -
Clarence Darrow
Clerence Darrow was a defence attroney that defended John T. Scopes who was being tried for teaching evolution in school. The trial began on July 10, 1925 -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
political termology the initiative is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state leg. by placing proposed statutes and in some states consitutional amendments on the ballot. -
3rd Parties Policy
Any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either if its two strongest rivals, the distinction is particularly significant in 2 party systems -
Klondike Gold rush
A migration of about 100,000 prospectors hoping to find gold in Yukon, Canada