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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was on Feb. 15,1820 and died on March 13, 1906. Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker who was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
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The Birth of Modern America
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Political Machines
A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Indian Removal
a 19th-century 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. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 26, 1830. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was born on Nov. 25, 1835 and died in 1919. Andrew Carnegie, a self-made steel tycoon and one of the wealthiest 19th century U.S. businessmen, donated towards the expansion of the New York Public Library. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs was born on Nov. 5, 1855 and died on Oct. 20, 1926. Eugene V. Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence darrow was born on April 18, 1857 and died on March 13, 1938. Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt was born o Oct. 27, 1858 and died on Jan. 6, 1919. Teddy Roosevelt was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jenning Bryan was born on March 19, 1860 and died July, 1925. William Jennings Bryan was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was born on Sept. 6, 1860 and died on May 21, 1935. Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
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. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862 and died on March 25, 1931. Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
Urbanization and Industrialization
Industrialization is the mainly a change from being an agricultural and pastoral society to a more industry based society. Urbanization on the other hand is associated with the building of towns and cities and the movement of people from villages to more urban areas in search of jobs and a better standard of living. -
The Gilded Age
An era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe, which attracted millions of immigrants. -
The Dawes Act
An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was born on Sep. 20, 1878 and died on Nov. 25, 1968. Upton Sinclair was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle. -
Civil Service Reform
Civil service reform refers to movements for the improvement of the civil service in methods of appointment, rules of conduct, etc. -
Populism and Progressivism
American society has traditionally been reformist, and populism and progressivism are two of the very popular mass movements or ideologies integral to this ongoing and continuous reforms, have taken place in the American society in the last 150 years. -
Haymarket Riot
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Klondike Gold Rush
A migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
The "initiative process" is a citizen or group of citizens who want to propose a law to the people and organize, draft the proposed law, then circulate petitions to be signed to get the law placed on the ballot in the upcoming election. Referendum is where the legislature votes on a bill but does not send the bill to the governor to sign, but instead places the bill on the ballot and let the voters take the blame for its passage or failure. Recall is the process of having essentially a 're-vote" -
Muckraker
Any of a group of American writers, identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé literature. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Dollar Diplomacy
designed to encourage U.S. investments in South and Central American, the Caribbean, and the Far East. -
16Th, 17Th, 18Th, And 19Th Amendments
The 16th Amendment insured that common people could be whacked every year for the costs of burgeoning government by overturning a Supreme Court effort to pin most of the cost on corporations.
The 17th Amendment, which technically never was ratified, insured that national government would burgeon by removing the fundamental check which state legislatures had over federal legisl.
The 18th Amendment further extended the nanny state.
The 19th Amendment expanded the electorate. -
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. -
Suffrage
The right to vote in political elections. -
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. -
Immigration and the American Dream
Immigrants is associate the American dream with opportunity, a good job and home ownership. -
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. -
Third Parties Politics
The term third party is used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties (Republican Party and Democratic Party).
