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Indain Removal
It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
The American Dream
Right to pursue happiness, and the freedom to strive for a better life through hard work and fair ambititon. The American Dream is a set of ideas in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Immigration
About 64% of Americans resided in the region between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River, with increased movement further west into unsettled territores. The way that people got the land in the west was in all different ways. -
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Teddy Roosevelt
He was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, who served as the 26th President of the United States. He is known for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement. -
Nativism
The political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. -
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Jane Addams
She was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She was the first women to win the noble peace prize in 1931 because her movement to gain womens rights. -
Homestead ACT
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government, was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
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Ida B. Wells
She 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. She was active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. -
Third Parties Politics
It's used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. An era of poverty as very poor European immigrants poured in. -
Urbanization and Industrization
Urbanization Is a population shift from rural to urban areas, and the ways in which society adapts to the change. Industrization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one. -
Referendum
There are two primary types of referenda: the legislative referendum, whereby the Legislature refers a measure to the voters for their approval, and the popular referendum, a measure that appears on the ballot as a result of a voter petition drive. -
Upton Sinclair
He was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres.Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence. In 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction -
Susan B. Anthony
She was an American social reformer who played a big role in the women's suffrage movement. Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote. -
Social Gospel
Movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
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Political Machines
As such, later-arriving immigrants, such as Jews, Italians, and other immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe between the, rarely saw any reward from the machine system. -
Civil Service Reform
The act provided selection of government employees by competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation. It also made it illegal to fire or demote government employees for political reasons and prohibited soliciting campaign donations on Federal government property -
Populism and Progrssivism
Populism is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions of the general people, especially contrasting those interests with the interests of the elite. Progrssivism is a broad philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization. -
Haymarket Riot
Refers to the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on -
The Dawes Act
Authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the big expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also the most known philisthorpist in this era. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
Initiative
A process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. -
Muckraker
Reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism. Muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
Eugene V. Debbs
He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. Debs leader of the ARU, and ended up being convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The purpose of the act was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products -
Recall
a procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office. Recall differs from another method for removing officials from office -
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. -
William Jennings Bryan
For the next 25 years, Bryan was the most popular speaker on the Chautauqua circuit, delivering thousands of paid speeches on current events in hundreds of towns and cities across the country, even while serving as Secretary of State. -
Dollar Diplomacy
A policy aimed at furthering the interests of the United States abroad by encouraging the investment of U.S. capital in foreign countries -
Ferderal Reserve Act
An Act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking. -
18th Amendment
Th article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress. -
Suffrage
Was when people mostly women and blacks were given the rights to vote. -
19th Amendment
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 sex. -
Tea Pot Dome Act
was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics".The scandal damaged the public reputation of the Harding administration. -
Clarence Darrow
He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks.
