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Manifest Destiny
The belief that the US was destined to expand and grow. This fueled the motivation for Westward Expansion. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. -
Indian Removal
The Indian removal act removed indians from southern states and put them on reservations in the midwest. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor 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 Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore 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 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 a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrade and the woeld peace. In the 1800s, she led a new generation of social workers. She argued that providing education and opportunity was more important than preaching mortality. She also helped out the poor. She died on May 21, 1935. -
Homestead Act
An act passed to get people to move to the west with the promise of cheap land. 160 acres for about $1. -
Ida B. Wells
The death of blacks outraged her, an african american journalist. In her newspaper, free speech, Wells urged african americans to protest the deaths, she called for a boycott of segregated street cars and white owned stores. She spoke out despite threats to her life. -
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The Social Gospel
The Social Gospel Movement was a movement that tried to work Christian ideals to social problems such as child labor, poor working conditions, and social injustice. -
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Urbanization & Industralization
Urbanization is a word for becoming more like a city. When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. Maybe tall apartment buildings spring up on what had been the outskirts of town, bringing more people there to live and work. Industralization is the process in which a society or country transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services. -
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle was a book by Upton Sinclair written in 1906. It was meant to expose the faults of capitalism and its downsides. A major point is the terrible sanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry. It lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket RIot was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
The Dawes Act
An attempt to "americanize" the indians giving each tribe 160 acres; after 25 years this property would become theirs and they would become an american citizen. -
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Kiondike Gold Rush
It was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Muckraker
A journalist/writer who exposed scandal and corruption. The jungle was an example -
Dollar Diplomacy
A foreign policy in which the US that invested in countries in Latin America to oversee and protect them so that their trading relationship could prosper. Basically "It takes money to make money". -
Initiative, Referendum, & Recall
Recall: People can vote to remove politicians from office before term is over Referendum: People can vote on whether to approve a law of not Initiative: People belonging to a political party vote to elect their local and state politicians -
Immigration & the American Dream
People from all over would come to the United States for better life opportunities and better economy. -
Political Machines
Informal political groups that gained power, many used the power for corrupt reasons. -
The Glided Age
The age of rapid industrial growth that seemed good on the outside and cheap on the inside. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Suffrage
The right to vote in political elections. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. -
16th Amendment
The 16th amendment to the United States Constitution gave the congress the power to tax income. -
17th Amendment
This amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
The federal reserve is the act that created the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the united states, which was signed into law by woodrow wilson. it regulated banking to help smaller banks stay in business. -
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. -
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The secretary of the Interior (Albert Fall) leased government land in California and at Teapot Dome, Wyoming to 2 oil executives- Fall became the first Cabinet official to be sent to prison. -
Civil Service Reform
The Civil Service Reform Act is an 1883 federal law that abolished the United States Civil Service Commission. It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called "spoils system."
