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When popualtions of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas.
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The ability to assess and initiate things independently
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A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision
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Officially order to return to a place
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The process in which a society or country transforms itself from a primarily argicultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services
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The policy of precting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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This law was signed by Andrew Jackson. The presiendet was able to grant unsettled land west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. Only a few tribes went peacfully others not so much.
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It was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.
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the right to vote in political elcetions.
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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). The term can also refer to independent politicians not affiliated with any party at all and to write-in candidates.
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Labor organizer and socialist leader Eugene V. Debs began his rise to prominence in Indiana's Terre Haute lodge of the Brotherhoof of Locomotive Firemen.
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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.
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It was signed by President Lincoln. The act allowed anyone over the age of 21, head of the family and a U.S. citizen the right to claim 160 acres of public land provided he live on and improve the land or pay $1.25 per acre. It started in the western states who recently were added to the union. Then the act made a large movement westward.
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She is the founder of the National woman Suffrage Association in 1869.
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A movement is a Protestant Christian intellecutual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada.
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Is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions of the gerneral people, especially contrasting those interests fo the elite.
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement.
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Which spanned the final three decades of the nineteenth century, was one of the most dynamic, contentious, and volatile periods in American history
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The action of coming to live permaently in a foreign country. for example the chinese. There was so many they made the Chinese Exclusion Act
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A 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 socalled "spoils system."
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It was in Chicago at the Haymarket Square. It all started when someone threw a bomb at police. Eight people ended up dieing that day. The reason for the riot was for rights such as the eight-hour workday.
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It was introduced by Henry Dawes. Act toom away previous land settlements given to the Native Americans and then seperate them into smaller areas to live on. The act forced Natives to live apart from the tribes and culture.
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is a term that encompasses a wide spectrum of social movements that include environmentalism, labor, agrarianism, anti-proverty, peace, anti-racism, civil rights, womans rights, animal rights, social justce and political ideologies such as anarchism. communism, socialism, social democracy. and liberalism
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It started when miners docked and carried in bags of gold. Soon over 100,000 people seeking gold set out to Yukon, Alaska. But by the time most of them got there all the gold was gone.
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He became the 26 president. He was the youngest president in the nations history. He was elected president in 1901.And stayed president until 1909.
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He sold his business and dedicated his time to expanding his philanthropic work, including the establichment of Carnegie-Mellon University in 1904.
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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr., was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle.
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Any group of American writers identified with pre- world war 1 reform and expose literature. They provided details of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States.
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It was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt. It was established to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating trafic therein, and for other purposes.
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It gives Congress the power to collect taxes on income without apportioning it among the states. It was passed in 1909 and was then ratifed in 1913.
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The use of a countrys finacial power to extend its international influence.
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It established direct election of the UNited states Senators by popular vote. The amendment supersedes Article 1 & 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures
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Intended to established a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the United states
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This was the Volstead Act which placed the authority to enforce the amendment in the lap of the Treasury Department and defined what legally constituted an alchoholic beverage
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Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States, during the Administration of President Warren G. Harding.
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Is a plitcal organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their efforts.
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Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks
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Was the second woman to recive the Peace Prize. She is the founder of the Womans International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919.
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The ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opporrtunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative
