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It was the development of America in ideals and structures. This lead to the development of modern day America.
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Political position of demanding a certain status of people opposed to immigrants or newcomers to America
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A political organization where a small group commands a larger group of supporters and businessmen.
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A Christian movement that was spread through America and Canada. It helped establish social morality among citizens
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A movement that was thought to be a God given right to expand and settle west in the newly American areas.
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The displacement of Native-Americans fromt formal U.S. boundaries. This effected the Natives hugely, taking them fom their homeland and forcing them to move elsewhere.
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Any citizen who had ever taken arms against the U.S. 21 or older could file for a land grant. It's significance is based off of the massive amounts of land grants (15000) that had been filed
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She played a role in the womens suffrage as a social reformer. She was a New York agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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Refers to a journalist focused on making improvements who wrote for popular magazines and newspapers.
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Progressivism sought to bring up the country through political reforms while Populism was looking to continue to grow slowly and opposed drastic changes.
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A labor protest that turned violent when a bomb was thrown against police. Eight people were killed as a result.
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The Dawes Act attempted to bring Native Americans and modernize them into American ways and leave behind Native American or 'Indian' ways.
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He was one of the biggest and wealthiest businessmen of the 19th Century. In 1889 he had owned 'Carnegie Steel Corporation', which was one of the largest businesses of it's kind at the time.
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The age that looked as if to be glittering, but was more corrupt than anything. It was consisted of speculators, shady businesses, vulgar display and plagued polotics.
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A journalist and activist who would lead a anti-ynching movement in America, showing that lynching was a way of oppressing and controlling African-Americans
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In the klondike reigon, which was in northwestern Canada, gold was discovered which led to an estimated 100,000 immigrations happened.
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He was an American union leader in business. He became one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World
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Theodore Roosevelt was many things in his lifetime. He was an explorer, a soldier, historian, and a politician. His most significant role in his life was the role of the 26th President in office.
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Initiative would permit citizens to bypass the state legislature through proposes statutes. Referendum is a term which tells the measure on a ballot. Recall allows citizens to take out of office an official and replace them.
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Forced inspection of food being distributed and given to the people. This helped in the end because of unadulterated products being given to the American people that were potentially poisonous.
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Suffrage refers to the equal right to vote among all people. People would have multiple causes to protest and gain equal voting rights for all people/
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He wrote and published books of over many genres. His most noteable work was that of political standpoints and exposing certain businesses.
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He was a politician for the majority of his days. He showed dominance through the populist wing of the Democratic Party. He was known best by his deep commanding voice in his lectures.
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It's goal was to counteract economic instability, but failed. It had tried to with America and other countries.
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The 16th Amendment gave Congress authority to levy a tax income.
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The 17th Amendment allowed senators to be appointed by the people.
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Granted authority to use Federal Bank Notes, or Dollars as legal tender. It helped establish the country's spending on things throughout the nation.
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Prohibited the production and selling of any alchoholic substances
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Gave all people of different sexes the right to vote.
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A bribing incedent that Albet B. Fall used to get low rates from oil companies without bidding.
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A country lawyer and a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is most famous for defending Leopold and Loeb of killing a 14 year old.
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The set of ideals that everyone regardless of anything about a person, they could acheive success and happiness is America
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She was a pacifist and worked on founding and became the first president of the Women's International Leaugue for Peace and Freedom. She Recieved the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Requires Federal labor unions to inform workers of their rights. It was important because it made the average working person feel more significant than just a pawn in a business.
