The birth of modern america

By leslycastro
  • Nov 8, 1492

    imigration

    The movement of people from one place to another and it started way way back
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    susan b anthony

    social reformer who helped in the women's suffrage movement
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    andrew carnegie

    Scottis industrialist who brought the expansion of the American steel industry in the 19th century
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    eugene V debs

    union leader and founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World,
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    Clarence darrow

    lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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    Theodore roosevelt

    American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States.
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    William jennings byan

    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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    Jane adams

    settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.

  • homestead act

    certain people could file an application to claim a federal land grant.
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    Ida b wells

    African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist,
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    Urbanization and industrializaton

    change from being an agricultural and pastoral society to a more industry based society.
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    the gilded age

    period of greed and guile
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    Upton sinclair

    American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres

  • civil service reform

    law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit

  • Haymarket riot

    Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.

  • Dawes act

    authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.

  • poilitical mashine

    organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses

  • social gospel

    Protestant Christian intellectual movement in the early 20th century

  • Manifest destiny

    belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.

  • nativism

    view that certain skills or abilities are "native" or hard-wired into the brain at birth.

  • Pure food and drug act

    law that provides federal inspection of meat products and prohibs sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous medicines.
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    Tea pot dome scandal

    bribery incident that took place in the United States

  • The american dream

    The national ethos of america or idea brought up in 1931