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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony lbegan a career as a very famous women's rights activist. -
Indian Removal
The Federal Government had the right to move Native Americans off of their land and into reservations so that the land could be sold for new American settlers. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie founded Keystone Telegraph Company. He led America's steel industry to mass expansion in the late 19th century. He opened his 1st steel mill in 1875. -
Manifest Destiny
The belief that social expansion into the West was justified and inevitable. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs served as an American Union leader and a five time canidate for the Socialist Party in the run for Presidency. -
Political Machines
When a political organization is controlled by an authoritative boss while corporations support them. An example is Tweed in Tammany Hall. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. served as a solider, author, U.S. politician and later became the 26th President of the United States. -
Nativism
The policy to protect native- born or establsihed inhabitants againnst immigrants. -
Homestead Act
Was signed by President Abraham Lincoln. This law means anyone who took up arms against the U.S., was 21 years or olser, or the head of the family could file for a land grant. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams became a social worker, public philosipher, author, sociologist, and a leader in world peace and women's suffrage. -
Social Gospel
Movement that the Christian faith practiced not as a personal conversion, but as a calling and a social reform. -
The Gilded Age
The industrial economy went into a craze giving people the opportunity to make great fortunes. -
Upton Siclair
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was born. He later bcame a very famous American author and wrote over 100 books including "The Jungle." -
Populism and Progressivism
Progressivism is the orientation of people who want to progress towards a better government. Populism is the support of the peoples' rights. -
Haymarket Riot
This riot was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration in Haymarket Square Chicago, IL. -
The Dawes Act
This act allowed the President to survey the native's land and divide it into reservations so that most of it could be used for new American settlers. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative- right for the people to propose resolutions.
Referendum- when the voter votes on a specific proposal.
Recall- is the basic form of impeachment(remove leader from power before their term is over). -
Klondike Gold Rush
Thousands of people migrated to the Klondike mines in Canada after gold was discovered. -
Immigration and the American Dream
Many immigrants came to America looking for a new life and a way to start over. They thought this would be a great opportunity and that they would be able to live like how it had been described before, but when they got here they realized it was actually an American Nightmare. This is when the most immigrants were reported coming to the U.S. -
Urbanization and Industrialization
Urbaization is the increasing population of people in an area and Industrialization is basically modernization and going from making things at home to in factories. The urbanization of New York was around 1900. -
Dollar Diplomacy
This is the use of a country's financial power to spread its influence. An example is when President Theodore Rooseevelt did so with the Roosevelt Corally in Latin America so the U.S. could intervene if their country couldn't. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This provided the federal government to inspect food and medical drugs and also stop them from being produced or manufactured. -
16th Amendment
The government could collect an income tax. This means the more money you make the larger the tax. -
17th Amendment
This gave the people the right to vote for Senators instead of having elected leaders choose the Senators. -
Ida B. Wells
Idea B. Wells was was an African American journalist, suffragist, socialogist and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She founded the Alpha Suffrage Club. -
Federal Reserve Act
established an economic security through the construction of the Central Bank which was in charge of monetary policy. -
18th Amendment
This Amendment started the Prohibition which made alcohol illegal. This is the only law to be repealed from the Constitution. -
Suffrage
The right to vote is known as suffrage, hence Women's Suffrage was about their right to vote. The date above is when Women's Suffrage was ended. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Bribery incident where Secretary of Interior leased Navy petroleum in Wyoming to 2 California oil companies. -
19th Amendment
This law gave ended woman's suffrage and allowed them to vote. -
Clarence Darrow
He was an American lawyer who later became the leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. His most well-known case was Leopold and Loeb murder covictions. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a leading American politician who was a 3 time canidate for President. He was also a lawyer for the prosecution in the Thomas Scopes Case while Clarence Darrow was for the defendent. -
Third Parties Politics
Third Party is any other political party than Democraticand Republican such as independent. -
Civil Service Reform Act
This bolished the Civil Service in the OPM, MSPB, and the FLRA. -
Muckraker
reformist journalist group that appeared in popular magazines and usually talked about political and social corruption.
