The Birth of Modern America

  • Susan B. Anthony

    american social reformer who played a role in the womens suffrage movement and collected anti-slavery petitions (national womens suffrage association)
  • civil service reform

    Federal law that abolished united states civil service commission. placed most employees on a system and marked the end of spoil systems.
  • Indian removal

    Expected to remove and relocate Indian nations that existed in the south
  • Andrew Carnegie

    american industrialist that led expansion of american steel industry
  • manifest destiny

    widely held belief is the U.S. that american settlers were destined to expand westward.
  • Suffrage

    women worked together to protest and campaign for womens voting rights from 1848 all the way to the 1920's
  • Eugene V. Debbs

    founding member of industrial workers(american railway union) and american union leader and founder of industrial workers of the world
  • Clarence Darrow

    leader of the american civil liberties union and defended leopold and loeb in the scopes trial which was taken to court for the murder of a 14 year old boy
  • William Jennings Bryan

    lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted john scopes for teaching evolution
  • Jane Addams

    founded the hull house, was a leader of womens suffrage, and won the firsrt nobel peace prize
  • Ida B. Wells

    leader in the civil rights movement and niagara movement (advocated full civil rights for blacks)
  • political machines

    allowed for the growing urban populations, infrastructure, new demands of public systems,ect.
  • urbanization and industrilalization

    urbanization was the process of people moving to cities which fuled the increase of city population greatly. The first industrial revolution was important for inventions of spinning and weaving machines operated by water power
  • social gospel

    movement in protestant christian that attempted to apply bibilcal teachings to problems associated with industrialization
  • gilded age

    greatly expanded the economy and influences in government and society
  • Upton Sinclair

    wrote novels arguing for social reform inlucing "The Jungle" that exposed working and sanitary conditions in meat factories
  • naitivism

    americans descended from primarily irish and germany and the american protective system and chinese exclusion act was created
  • haymarket riot

    organized to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by chicago police the day of mcCormicks works.
  • the dawes act

    law that turned native americans into farmers and land owners by providing familes w/land
  • Third party politics

    Rallying cry for democrats in 1888 election and republican congress and modernized programs(railroads,tariffs,ect.)
  • Populism

    political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions of the general people. in 1887 farmers were granted success when congress passed interstate and commerce act.
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    rush of people toward klondike gold mining district in north western canada after gold was discovered
  • muckraker

    the jungle was written in 1906 bagging on meat inspeaction companies writers published dirt on corperate and social injustices
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    Initiative, referendum, and recall

    Initiative: process of petitioning a legislature to introduce a bill
    Referendum:citizens vote on laws instead of state or national governments
    Recall:people could remove a politician from office by having 2nd election
  • progressivism

    encompasses wide spectrum of social movements that include anti-racism,peace,womens rights,ect. In the early 1900's the progressive party was made and joined together to create the NAACP which was an African American civil rights organization
  • teddy roosevelt

    created big stick foreign policy
  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • pure food and drug act

    federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and regulate the manufacturing of drugs and food
  • dollar diplomacy

    process created by william howard taft that extended countrys financial power. U.S. used dollar diplomacy in an effort to further its foreign policy through the use of economic power.
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    16th-19th admendment

    16th amendment: gave congress power to tax income
    17th amendment: direct election of senators by voters
    18th amendment: prohibited alcoholic sales
    19th amendment: extended womens rights to vote
  • federal reserve act

    central banking system of the USA and granted legal authority to issue federal reserve notes
  • teapot dome scandal

    government scandal involving U.S. navy oil reserve in wyomming that was leased to a private oil company
  • william jennings bryan

  • homestead act

    made public lands in the west available to settlers without payment to be used as farms
  • immigration and the american dream

    25 million immigrants arrived in american between 1870 and 1900 as an effect there was fleeing of crop failure, job shortages, rising taxes, and famine. U.S was considered the land of oppurtunity.