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Susan B. Anthony
Was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker who was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Political Machines
Was a local political party organization capable of mobilizing or "manufacturing" large numbers of votes on behalf of candidates for political office. -
Nativism
referred to white, native-born, Protestant Americans' hostility to European immigrants. -
Indian Removal
Was signed by Presidnet Andrew Jackson, authorized the president to grant land deads west of the Mississippi. During the fall and winter of 1838-1839 the Cherokees were frocabley removed from their homelands in Georgia and marched acrossed the south to lands in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. -
Andrew Carnegie
A Scottish American in the late 19th century built the American steel indudtry, which turned poor young men into the richest entrepreneurs -
Manifest Destiny
was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Labor organizer and socialist leader, Debs organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago in 1894. -
Clarence Darrow
Was a lawyer who worked as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials and was also a public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous writer. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a liberal leader and magnetic orator who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency. -
Jane Addams
Was a pioneer American settlement social worker. Settlement house founder and peace activist. Also leader in the woman's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
becomes law, allowing settlers to claim land (160 acres) after they have lived on it for five years -
Ida B. Wells
Was an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. -
Urbanization & Industrialization
The world became a large industrial nation with things coming in such as steel, silver, gold, etc.(process of social and economic)
(physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change) -
The Gilded Age
a period of rapid economic growth but also much social conflict -
Upton Sinclair
An American writer and reformer. Sinclair was an idealistic supporter of socialism and became famous as a "muckraker."The muckrakers were writers whose principal goal was exposing social and political evils. -
Haymarket Riot
Also known as the Haymarket Massacre
A labor protest rally that turneed into a riot when a police had a bomb thrown at him, a couple people died that day. It's viewed as a setback fot the organized labor movement in America fighting for rights as the eight-hour workday -
The Dawes Act
An act to provide allotment of land to several Indians on Reservated land. Also to extend protection laws of the US and territories over Indians. -
Klondike Gold Rush
When gold was literally found all over the place. Eleven months after the initial discovery of gold, the steamship Portland arrived in Seattle from Dawson with more than a ton of gold -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Is a federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
Dollar Diplomacy
President William Howard Taft founded "Dollar Diplomacy". Was evident in extensive U.S. interventions in the Caribbean and Central America, especially in measures undertaken to safeguard American financial interests in the region. -
16th amendment
Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th amendment
It modified the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
Was signed by President Wilson, it created and set up the Federal Reserve system of the US granting it legal authority Federal notes and bank not as legal tender. -
Populism & Progressivism
Farmers believed that industrialists and bankers controlled both
the republicans and the democrats within’ the government
A movement to improve American life by taking advantage of
democracy -
Muckraker
Investigative reporters who promoted social and political reforms by exposing corruption and urban problems -
18th amendment
Transporting alcohol, selling was not allowed and they wanted everyone sober. -
Immigration & the American Dream
Immigrants wanting to come to America and live the American Dream living a beter life. -
19th amendment
U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote..a right known as woman suffrage. -
Suffrage
Getting the right to vote in political elections. 19th amendment ratified women to have the right to vote. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves -
Third Parties Politics
refers to any party other than the major two, which are the Democratic and Republican parties at present. -
Social Gospel
A religious social-reform movement that was prominent from about 1870 to 1920, especially among liberal Protestant groups dedicated to the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice. -
Civil Service Reform
It applies to labor organizations which represents employees in most agencies of the executive branch of the Federal Government.
