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Susan B. Anthony
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. -
Indian Removal
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. -
The American Dream
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
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. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Immigration
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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Eugene V. Debbs
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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Teddy Roosevelt
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. -
Nativism
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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William Jennings Bryan
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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Jane Addams
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. -
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. -
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Ida B. Wells
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. -
3rd Parties Politics
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 -
Gilded Age
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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Upton Sinclair
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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Political Machines
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. -
Civil Service Reform
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. -
Dawes Act
Authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The purpose of the act was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products. -
Federal Reserve Act
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.