The Birth of Modern America

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  • 17th Amendment

    The senate shall compose two senators for every state.
  • 19th Amendment

    Womens right to vote.
  • Immigration and the american dream

    combination of cheap transportation and enourmius disparties.
  • Urbinization and industrialization

    Millions of European immigrants settled in between the US.
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    She was a leading, tireless advocate for a womans right to vote.
  • Third parties politics

    It is a third term party used in the US for any or for all parties including Republican and Democratic.
  • Indian Removval

    Indian Removval
    Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of progress. Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    He was a scottish American industrialist who led the enourmous expansion of the American steel industry.
  • Eugene V. Debbs

    Eugene V. Debbs
    Debbs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the industrial workers of the world.
  • Clarence Darrow

  • Tedddy Roosevelt

    Tedddy Roosevelt
    He was an American Politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who seved as the 26th president of the United States.
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    She was a pioneer American seetle ment social worker.
  • Homestead Act

    Was signed into law by Presidet Lincoln.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells
    She was an African Amerian journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, soicolist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement.
  • Gilded Age

    Gilded Age
    Satirized an era of serious social problems.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair
    Was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many geners.
  • Haymarket Riot

    Was the after math of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration.
  • Dawes Act

    President of US to survey American indian tribal land.
  • Initiative

    Initiative
    The power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do.
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker
    expose labor abuses in the meat packing industry but it was food not labor, that most concerned the public.
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny
    Moves aross the land in advance of settlers, replacing darkness with light and ignorance with civilization.
  • Civil Service Reform

    Was a major problem in the US in the 19th century of the national level.
  • Populism and progressivism

    Farmers believed that industrialists and bankers controlled both the republicans and the democrats.
  • pure food and drug act

    preventing the manufacturing, sale, or transportaion and ban.
  • Political machines

    They helped several cities and made cities grow larger.
  • Referendum

    Referendum
    General vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    The central banking system of the US has granted it to the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve notes.
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    A corporate lawyer who had founded the giant conglomerate US steel.
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal
    Was a bribery incident that took place in the US.
  • Nativism

    Nativism
    It is the policy of protecting the interest of native born or established inhabitants against those immigrants.
  • Suffrage

    Suffrage
    It is the right to vote political elections.
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush
    Was a migration of estimated 100,00 men minging for gold and steel and iron.
  • Social Gospel

    Social Gospel
    Is a protestant christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century.
  • 16th Amendment

    The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source from derived, without appointmnet from any states.
  • 18th Amendment

    The congress and the several states shalll have current power to inforce this article by appropriate legislation.