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was an american reformer hwo played a pivotal role in the women suffrage moment
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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
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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.
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during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. 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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The steel business
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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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in the 19th century, manifest destiny was the widely held belief in the united states that amerian settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.
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the policy of protecing the interests of native-born or establish inhabitants against those of immagrants.
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devoted his life to ending wage slavery. this contention that modern society holds two social classes, two conflicting interests, lay at the root of his entire program.
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Clarence Seward Darrow was an american lawyer and leading member of the american civil liberties union.
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Columbus accidental discovery of the west indies in 1492 brought on the exploration age in the 1500s
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was a leading american politician from the 1890s until his death
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a pioneer american settlement social workers
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people and the institutions of the United States expanded into what is now Oklahoma. This phenomenon did not take place in isolation, nor was it a sequence of random events that were of little consequence to the basic sweep of national development.
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anyone hwo had never taken up arms against the U>. S governmennt was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, coulf file an appliication to claim a federal land grant
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ida bells wells barnett was an african american jounalist , newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement.
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During the colonial era and even after the United States had gained its independence, America favored immigration until the 1870s when things started to change. America was a home to immigrants and welcomed them with open arms.
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The First Industrial Revolution evolved into the Second Industrial Revolution in the transition years between 1840 and 1870, when technological and economic progress continued with the increasing adoption of transport steam (steam-powered railways, boats and ships)
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american author who wrote nearly 100 books in amany genres.
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the growth of the industry and a wave of immagrants marked this period in american history.
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But in one of the most significant political reforms of the late 19th century, Congress adopted the Pendleton Act, creating a federal civil service system, partly eliminating political patronage. Andrew Jackson introduced the spoils system to the federal government.
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was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on tuesday
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The act was named for its creator, senator henry laurens dawes of massachusetts.
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The klondike gold rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors tot he klondike region of the yukon in north western canada
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provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the politial and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big buisness in a rapidly industrializing united states
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is a united states federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and posoinous patent medicines
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established congress right to impose a federal income tax
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by allowing voters to cast direct votes for us senators
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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.
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Dollar Diplomacy is the effort of the United States—particularly over President William Howard Taft—to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
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movement is a protestant christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century united states and canada
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The Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, went into effect one year later on January 16, 1920, and was repealed by the 21st Amendment on December 5, 1933. In the over 230 years of the U.S. Constitution, the 18th is the only Amendment ever to have been repealed.
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Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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Some of the original progressive thinkers, such as Herbert Croly and Charles Beard, were deeply skeptical of the constitutional order they inherited. But this skepticism is often misunderstood as disdain for the Constitution itself or a desire to replace it with some other document or set of values.
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The urbanization of the United States was a very long and gradual process, with the United States only becoming an urban-majority nation between 1910 and 1920. Currently, over four-fifths of the U.S. population resides in urban areas, a percentage which is still increasing today.
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the tepot dome scandel was a bribery incident that took place in the united states, during the admiinistration of president warren G. harding.