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Susan B. Anthony
Susan was an American social reformer. She played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. -
Indian Removal
The Indian removal was a 19th-century policy of ethnic cleansing by the government of the United States. It was to move Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. -
Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Andrew carnegie
He was one of the richest men in his time in america, he also owned the biggest steel industry. -
Nativism
Nativism, the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene was an American union leader and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was called a "sophisticated country lawyer", he remains notable for his wit, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians. -
Theodore Roosevelt
American Statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th president of the United States -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a leading American politician.He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States. -
Jane Addams
She was a american pioneer that was a activist/reformer, social worker and a author -
Homestead Act
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Ida B. Wells
Ms. Wells, 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, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. -
Social Gospel
It was a religious social-reform movement that was prominent from about 1870 to 1920, especially among liberal Protestant groups dedicated to the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice. -
urbanization & Industrialization
Urbanization is the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city, and Industrialization is The process in which a society or country transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services. -
Upton Sinclair
Mr. Sinclair wrote books that exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. -
Haymarket Riot
It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers by the police, the previous day. -
The Dawes Act
It authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Populism and Progressivism
The Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. -
Civil Service Reform
Civil service reform refers to movements for the improvement of the civil service in methods of appointment, rules of conduct, etc. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
The initiative is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. -
Muckraker
The term muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century. -
17th Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. -
16th Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol. -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
It was an incident that took place in the United States. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding -
Political Machines
Political machine as, in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
Immigration and the American Dream
This is an idea that suggests that anyone in the US can succeed through hard work and has the potential to lead a happy, successful life. -
Suffrage
Suffrage is the right to vote in political elections.Women's suffrage is the right given to women to vote and to stand for electoral office. -
Third Parties Politics
Third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals