-
Muckraker
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. -
Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act is a law that was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Clarence Darrow
was a lawyer who worked as defense counsil in many dramatic criminal trials he was also a public speaker, debater, and misc writer -
William Jennings Bryan
was a liberal leader + magnetic creator who ran unsuccessfully for president 3 times -
Ida B Wells
one of the most important civil rights advocates of the 19th century, was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, just before the emancipation proclamation was signed. -
Homestead Act
The first of the acts, the Homestead Act of 1862, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. 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. -
Social Gospel
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Gilded Age
who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before. In New York, the opera, the theatre, and lavish parties consumed the ruling class' leisure hours. Sherry's Restaurant hosted formal horseback dinners for the New York Riding Club. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish once threw a dinner party to honor her dog who arrived sporting a $15,000 diamond collar. -
Eugene V Debbs
elected into senate as a representative for indiana in 1884 and was ana american union leader, socialist. -
Haymarket Riot
was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
The Dawes Act
Transfer of reservation lands to whites through political process -
Klondike Gold Rush
Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, the Canadian Gold Rush, and the Last Great Gold Rush, was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Andrew Carnegie
sold his steel company to JP Morgan for $480 million, making him the richest man in the world. -
Pure Food And Drug Act
made it to where food had to be passed and certified to be sold, consumed, and processed. -
Upton Sinclair
was an American writer and reformer. Sinclair was an idealistic supporter of socialism and became famous as a "muckraker." The muckrakers were writers in the early 1900s whose principal goal was exposing social and political evils. -
Teddy Roosevelt
founder of the progressive psrty in 1912 and a leader of the progressive movement. was president and governor of new york -
16th amendment
allows the congress to levy an income tax. -
17th amendment
established direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote -
dollar diplomacy
Taft shared the view held by Knox, a corporate lawyer who had founded the giant conglomerate U.S. Steel, that the goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order abroad that would best promote American commercial interests. -
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, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
Populism & Progressivism
The standard conception of progressivism was leaning more on uplifting the country by means of socio-economic and political reforms while populism was more anti-capitalistic that favored agrarianism while opposing drastic modernization. In the long run, it has been discovered that the two movements were actually the same in terms of goals and objectives as both wanted change for the better. It’s just that they are different in terms of approach. -
18th amendment
prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alchoholic beverages -
19th amendment
granted american woman the right to vote- a right known as women suffrage -
Civil Service Reform
in the U.S. was a major issue in the late 19th century at the national level, and in the early 20th century at the state level. Proponents denounced the distribution of office by the winners of elections to their supporters as corrupt and inefficient. -
Immigration & the american dream
the american dream, everyone wants to experience this.. but when you come from other countries and have to move here thats called immigration -
urbanization & industrialization
Business and industrialization centered on the cities. The ever increasing number of factories created an intense need for labor, convincing people in rural areas to move to the city, and drawing immigrants from Europe to the United States. As a result, the United States transformed from an agrarian to an urban nation, and the demographics of the country shifted dramatically. -
Political Machines
were orgainizations that provided social services and jobs in exchange foir votes. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Suffrage
movement arose from the antislavery movement (see abolitionism) and from the advocacy of figures such as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who believed that equality should extend to both women and African Americans. -
Jane Adamms
Jane Adamms was the first woman to be awarded the nobel peace prize -
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
In political terminology, 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. -
Third Parties Politics
is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals (or, in the context of an impending election, is considered highly unlikely to do so). The distinction is particularly significant in two-party systems.
