Key Terms Project

  • Indian Removal Act

    The president had to negotiate with indian tribes in the southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Missisippi River in exchange for their homelands
  • Third party polictics

    No third party has won a presidental election in over a century "third parties are like bees once they have stung they die any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest arrivals.
  • Nativism

    The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those immagrants
  • Urbanization and Industrialization

    urbanization was start of the new beginning. The population started growing. then eventually became over populated in many places industrialization started by inverting new things new things such as electricity telephones and steel and more.
  • Susan B anthony

    She was a teacher for 15 years . she eventually joined the womens rights movement 1852. Soon after, she dedicated er life to woman sufferage.
  • Homestead Act

    Anyone who had never taken up arms in the U.s goverment older than 21 or the man of the family could filel to get a federal land grant.
  • Muckracker

    Jounaralists who wrote for popular magazines, often worked to expose social ills and cooprertate andpolitical coruption
  • Immagration in the American dream

    a set of ideas in which freedom includes the oppurtunity for prosperity and sucess, and an upward socail mobility acheeve through hard work.
  • The guilded age

    Final htree decades of the 19th century, one of the most dianamic, contintious voltal periods in american history industial an economic growth
  • Civil service reform

    federal law that abolished the U.S civil service comission
  • ida B Wells

    an African americsn jouranlist newpaper editor suffragest socialogist an early leader in the civil rights movement
  • Haymarket Riots

    The rally at haymark Squarewas organized by labor radicals to protests the killing and wounding of several workers by the chicago police during a strike the day before at the Mcormick Reaper
  • Eugene V Debbs

    Eugene v Debbs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the indusrial workers he was elected as democrat to indiana General Assmebly in 1884
  • The dawes Act

    A federal law intended to turn native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 1690 acres of reservation land for owners
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Scotish American industrialst that led the huge expansion to the American steel industry in the late 19th century he had tons of books and libraries.
  • PoliticL Machines

    A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritive boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supportiers
  • Populism and progressivism

    polilical orientation of those to the klondike region of the yukon on the north-wester canada between 18861899.
  • Klondike Gold rush

    migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the klondike region.
  • social Gospel

    protestant christian intellectual movement that ws the most prominant in the early 20th century United States and Canada
  • theodore roosvelt

    The 26th president of U.S loved by mant, hated by few. he was an american polotician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian
  • initiative, referendum, recall

    people who have the right to propose a new law refrendum a law passed by the legislature can be refrence to the people for an approva/veto. Recall: the people can pettion an vote to have an elected offical removal from office
  • Pure food and drug Act

    United States made it a law forfederal inspection ofmeat products and get rid of the manufacture, sale, or transportaion af adulterated food products and poisnous patent medicenes
  • Upton Sinclair

    he wan=s an American author that wrote almost 100 booka. his most famous being the Jungle in 1943 he won the PULITZER
  • dollar di

    the use of a countrys financial power to extend its international influence
  • federal Reserve Act

    was intended tos tablish a form of economic stabilty through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the united states
  • 16th amendment

    The 16th amendment allows the congress to levy an income tax without supporting it among the states of basing it on the United States Census
  • William Jennings Bryan

    He was a leading An=merican Pollitician in 1890s untill he died july 26 1925. He was a dominant force in the democratic party three times aspartys candiate for presidents of the united states
  • 17th amendment

    The 17th amendement established direct electon of United States senators by popular vote
  • 18th amendment

    The 18th amendment of the United states establsuhed direct election of united states senators by popular vote
  • Tea pot dome scandal

    bribery scandal that took place in the US from 1920-1923 during the adminastration of president Warren G. harding
  • Suffrage

    The right to vote
  • 19th amemdmant

    The 19th amendmant granted women the right to vote
  • Clarence Darrow

    he was a lawyer. leader of the civil liberties union. he was best know fir the defending of teenage thrill killers.
  • jane addams

    Jane addams was a pioneer settlement socail worker public philopsher and was very headstrong in her beliefs