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Indian Removal
Policy of ethnic cleansing by the government of the United States to move Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. -
Manifest Destiny
Widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Political Machines
Organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Clarence Darrow
American laywer and leading member if the american civil liberties union -
Homestead Act
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Ida B. Wells
Was an africaqn-american journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociolologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
The Gilded Age
Saturized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gliding, history in the late19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. -
Upton Sinclair
Novelist and social crusader from California, who pioneered the kind of jounalism known as muckraking. -
Haymarket Riot
Aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration. -
The Dawes Act
Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams, also known as Laura Jane, was the founder of the Hull-House. This was a settlement house in the United States that she co-founded in 1889. She was born September 6, 1860. -
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan worked to unite the Democrats and Populists in Nebraska, but later lost a bid for a senate seat. Out of politics, Bryan became the editor of the Omaha World-Herald and traveled widely as a lecturer on the Chautauqua circuit. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in North-Western Canada. -
Initiative
The ability to assess and initiate things independently. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Was a labor organizer and the socialist party's canidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920. -
Andrew Carnegie
Steel tycoon who became one of the 20th centuries most famous philanthropists. -
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
He was born October 27th, 1858 and died January 6th, 1919. Teddy Roosevelt became the President of the United States in 1904 and is remembered for his foreign policy, corporate reforms, and ecological preservation. -
Muckraker
Refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magizines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic there in, and for other purposes. -
Dollar Diplomacy
The use of a countries financial power to extend its international influence. -
16th Amendment
Established congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions. Progressivism is a term that encompasses a wide spectrum of social movements that include environmentalism, labor, agrarianism, anti-poverty, peace, anti-racism, civil rights, women's rights, animal rights. -
17th Amendment
Allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, senators were chosen by state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
Congress created and set up the Federal Reserve 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
prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. -
Suffrage
The right for Women to vote. -
19th Amendment
Women's Right to Vote. -
TeaPot Dome Scandal
Surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall, a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Immigration and the American Dream
With opportunity, a good job and home ownership. -
Social Gospel
A Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Susan B. Anthony
Was a leading, tireless advocate for a woman's right to vote. -
Referemdum
A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been reffered to them for a direct decision. -
Civil Service Reform
Refers to movements for the improvement of the civil service in methods of appointment, rules of conduct. -
Third Parties Politics
The United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties. -
Recall
Bring a fact, event, or situation back into one's mind, especially so as to recount it to others. (To remember) -
Urbanization and Industrialation
Urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialation, and the sociological process of rationalization.
