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Manifest Destiny
The "Age of Manifest Destiny" is a period where the Americans beleived that they should settle the west and people started moving west to start over and live better lives. -
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Suffrage
This is a time period where woman fought for their right to vote. Many influential woman such as Jane Addams and Suson B. Anthony fought for there right to vote. -
homestead act
The homestead act, passed by Abraham Lincoln, gave anyone who ahd tacken up ams agianst the U.S , 21 years or older, or head of a family, could file an application for a federal land grant. -
Susan B. Anthony
Pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movment, Susan B. Anthony founded the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 and helped movement towrd the 19th Amendment, giving woman the right to vote. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Schottish- born America industralist who attained his wealth in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. He enterd the steel industry in the early 1870s, and dominted the industry for almost 2 decades. -
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The Gilded Age
This period in time was the growth of industry. New invention and innovations, such as the railroad, helped settle the west. Weath rose as people like Andrew Carniege and Rockerfeller became one the wealthiest people in the world. -
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Social Gospel
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Civil Service Reform
The Civil Service Reform Act law that abolished the United States Civil Service Commission. It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the spoils system. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells, a journalist and civil rights activists, Ida was on a train to Nashville, when she was forced onto a separate car for African Americans. Then she sued the train company and won a $500 settlement but was overturned by Tennesse Supreme Court. Angred by the injustice, she picke up a pen and wrote about the issues in race and politics, later writing works like Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, and the Free Speech. -
Nativism
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. An example of this the Chinese Exclusion Act. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act Americanized Native Americans and most of there culture faded away -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was a Lawer who moved to Chigago in 1887 and attempted to free the anarchists charged in the Haymarket Riot and in 1894 defended Eugene V. Debs, who was arrested on a federal charge from the Pullman Strike. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams, womans rights activists, anti- war activits, and philanthropist, co- founded the Chicagos Hull House which was one of the first settlements in both the United States and in North America which provided services for the immigrants and the poor popunlation in the Chicago area. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene was a socialist leader and labor organizer who in 1894 resigned his position as secretary Indiana’s Terre Haute lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and started to oraganize The American Railway Union (aru), an industrial union of railway workers. -
William Jennyings Bryan
Born in Illinois, William Jennings Bryan became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
Teddy Roosevelt
The 26th president of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt in June 1902 the first major legislative achievement of his presidency was the National Reclamation Act which was dedicated to lagre scale irrigation projects in the west. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair, a very famous novelist and social crusader from California. He wrote the book, The Jungle, showing the truth of the meat packing industry, hoping that conditions for workers would improve, but lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act came becuase of Upton Sincalir's book The Jungle. This Act provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy is the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. It was used by William Howrd Taft during his presidency. -
16th Amendment
The amendment within the Constitution that gives Congress the power to collect taxes on income without apportioning it among the states. -
17th Amendment
Ratified on April 8, 1913, this amendment lets the people vote directly for the U.S senetors. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
18th amendment
Manufecturing, sale, or transportation of intoxicationg liquors in the United States is prohibited. -
teapot dome scandel
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
19th Amendment
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
