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Muckraker
A Muckraker is someone who searches for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She was born February 15, 1820 and died in March 13, 1906. -
Indian Removal
Moved Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene V. Debbs was a great man. He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the world, a candidate of the Socialist Party of America for president of the United States. He was born on November 5, 1855 and died on October 20, 1926. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was born on April 18, 1857 and died on March 13, 1938. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt was a very important man. He did many things in history, he was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian and was the 26th President of the United States. He was born on October 27, 1858 and died on January 6, 1919. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was a leading American politician. He was born in March 19, 1860 and died in July 26, 1925. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was born on September 6th in the year 1860. Jane Addams did many things. She was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She died on May 21st in the year 1935. -
Homestead Act
Was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. Thid act allowed nearly any man or woman a chance to live the American dream. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was born on July 16, 1862 and died on March 25, 1931. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
The Gilded Age
It was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. Took place during the late 19th century. -
Social Gospel
Is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American author who wrote many books. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel called, The Jungle. He was born on September 20, 1878 and died on November 25, 1968. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Riot took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. (It was the aftermath of a bombing) -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act gave indians the opertunity to get land and US citizenship. -
Nativism
It is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Third Parties Politics
Is used in the United States for any and all political parties. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The pupose of the Pure Food and Drug Act was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was born on the 25th of November and was raised by a very poor family. He created his own steel company and then sold it for $480 millon. -
16th Amendment
The sixteeth amendment made it legalized the right for the US government to to levy an income tax and to use the money however it sees fit. -
17th Amendment
The seventeenth amendment stated that senators would be elected by state legislatures. -
19th Amendment
The nineteenth amendment allowed all American women to be able to vote. -
18th Amendment
The eightteenth amendment stoped the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic drinks. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923 -
Suffrage
The right to vote in political elections -
Federal Reserve Act
An Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System.
