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She was an American social reformer who played a big role in the women's suffrage movement. Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote.
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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.
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Right to pursue happiness, and the freedom to strive for a better life through hard work and fair ambititon. The American Dream is a set of ideas in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work.
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Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the big expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also the most known philisthorpist in this era.
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Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.
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About 64% of Americans resided in the region between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River, with increased movement further west into unsettled territores. The way that people got the land in the west was in all different ways.
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He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. Debs leader of the ARU, and ended up being convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison.
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He was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, who served as the 26th President of the United States. He is known for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement.
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The political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.
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For 25 years, Bryan was the most popular speaker on the Chautauqua circuit, delivering thousands of paid speeches on current events in hundreds of towns and cities across the country, even while serving as Secretary of State.
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She was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She was the first women to win the noble peace prize in 1931 because her movement to gain womens rights.
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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.
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An African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States. She was active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations.
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It's used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties
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The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. An era of poverty as very poor European immigrants poured in.
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He was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres.Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence. In 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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As such, later-arriving immigrants, such as Jewish people, Italians, and other immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe rarely saw any reward from the machine system.
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The act provided selection of government employees by competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation. It also made it illegal to fire or demote government employees for political reasons and prohibited soliciting campaign donations on Federal government property.
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Authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
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The purpose of the act was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products.
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An Act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking.