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Urbanization & Industrialization
Urbanization is the creation of cities which is where industrialization occured. Tenements created cheap housing where people lived in order to live close to their work area in factories. This is important due to how people started to make money and work off cheap labor. -
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Civil Service Reform
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Bryan Social Gospel
The social gospel grew out of the abuses of industrialism.It was a movement to add christian principles to the lives of the americans during poverty, inequality, crime, etc. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was a women's rights activists.and was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. SHe helped establish women's rights with the use of amendments. -
Indian Removal
This act was a law during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson. This was the removal and relocation of the Indians. THis is important because this was the reason due to trail of tears. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded age was the most dynamic , contentious, and volatile period in American history. It was called that due to what they saw as the rampant greed and speculative frenzy of the marketplace, and the corruption pervading national politics, they satirized a society whose serious problems, they felt, had been veiled by a thin coating of gold. -
Manifest Destiny
It was the belief that it was peoples right to come to America to expand throughout the continent. It is important because its what began to bring in people who wanted to started a life here. -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. It was important because it showed people who had originally settled there to be protesting about the immigrants coming into America. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was a lawyer who worked as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials. He was also a public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous writer.attempted to free the anarchists charged in the Haymarket Riot. In 1894 he defended Eugene V. Debs, arrested on a federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike. -
William Jennings
William Jennings Bryan was a liberal leader and magnetic orator who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency. He supported anti imperialism and ran against William Mckinley. He was a peace advocate, a prohibitionist, and an opponent of Darwinism on religious and humanitarian grounds. -
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Homestead Act of 1862
The Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and 5 years of continuous residence on that land. -
Ida B Wells
She was the daughter of previous Slaves. An african-american journalist and activist that led an anti-lynching crusade in the 1890s. This is highly important cause she became a vocal critic on the conditions that african amerians face in black only schools. -
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Populism and Progressivism
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Haymarket Riot
a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. This riot was considered a setback to labor union movements that went on in order to fight for the rights such as 8 hour work days -
Dawes Act
the act was enacted in relation to the native Americans and distribution of land to them, the ones especially in Oklahoma. This related to the unit because the U.S. was actually trying to help the Native Americans -
Andrew Carnegie
He was a self-made steel tycoon and one of the wealthiest 19th century U.S. businessmen,By 1889 he owned Carnegie Steel Corporation, the largest of its kind in the world. This was significant to this unit due to him being a contribute to an important business in the industry as it grew. -
Jane Addams
On this day, Jane Addams co-founded one of the first settlements in the United States, the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois. This is significant due to it being one of the first settlements, and was the a mark of the beginning of settlement in the U.S. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
initiative and referendum is a process that allows citizens of many U.S. states[1] to place new legislation on a popular ballot, or to place legislation that has recently been passed by a legislature on a ballot and vote on it. Initiative and referendum, along with recall elections and popular primary elections, is one of the signature reforms of the Progressive Era; -
Political Machines
it's a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. -
Eugene V. Debbs
In 1893, Debs became president of the American Railway Union. This is important due to him inspiring people to fight for work labor rights. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Gold was found in North-western Canada between 1896 to 1899. it triggered a stampede of prospectors. The journey proved too hard for many, and only between 30,000 and 40,000 arrived. Some became wealthy, but the majority went in vain and only around 4,000 struck gold. -
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Muckraker
This refered to the reform-minded journalists that wanted to uncovered the corruption going on in businesses. ; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. This is important cause it caused the establishment of the Pure food and drug act, and created child labor laws in 1906. -
Theodore Roosevelt
After the assasination of President Mckinley, Roosevelt was the youngest at 43 to become President. This is important because of all the things Roosevelt did while in office. He started the "Big Stick Policy" and led the U.S. to becoming a power. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It 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. This law made it clear that drugs such as cannabis, alcohol, cocaine and heroin be labeled with the correct dosages. This is important due to how cocaine was put into coco cola. -
Upton SInclair
He was an activist writer that wrote and published many books. His book "The Jungle" was his best seller. He's important due to uncovering the social unjustices that he reveiled in society. -
Suffrage
the right to vote gained by democratic process. It has been fought for awhile, and its important due to women's right to vote was gained because of it. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
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Third Party Policies
a third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals (or, in the context of an impending election, is considered highly unlikely to do so). The distinction is particularly significant in two-party systems. -
16th,17th,18th, and 19th Amendment
16th- gave the federal government the right to tax American incomes.
17th-gives voters the opportunity to select senators by popular vote.
18th- ban on alcohol
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Federal Reserve Act
It was an act that was used to establish currency, and establish a more effective supervision of banking. This was important cause it was what established our form of currency. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
This was one of the greatest scandals prior to the Watergate scandal. 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. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. This is important cause it brought bad reputation. -
Immigration & American Dream
The phrase American Dream was popularized in a book called Epic of America by historian James Truslow Adams. It was important because it brought in the idea of starting a new life here for immigrants. WHich most people mainly just saw as cheap labor jobs for them.
