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Indian Removal
It led to the eviction of Native Americans from their lands in the Southeast. Also forced Indians off their lands which cause the Trail of Tears to happen. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the belief by Anglo-Saxon Americans that it was the destiny to expand across North America and impart idealism in institutions that were able to handle self-government. Without Manifest Destiny, the United States would not have reached its current size. The expansion had a serious impact on Native Americans. -
Suffrage
The women's suffrage was important because they fought for the right of women to vote in this country. The women in the US would still be sitting at home as property of men if the suffragettes hadn't fought for our freedom. Only men had a voice in deciding political, social and economic issues. -
Susan B. Anthony
She once became a leader for those women during the suffrage and the womens right to vote with Elizabeth Stanton. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was one of the best-known socialists in the United States. After running for president against four others and getting a high voting range from what he thought. Then went into Pullman strike and helpeed construct train cars. -
William Jennings Bryan
He ran unsuccessfully for president three times and failed those three times. Was a good speaking politician. He had a big effect inside the office. -
Homestead Act
Was to help expand and develop the United States of the land for agriculture. Allowed people to get land from the west of the Mississippi River and also to settle it. -
Immigration & the American Dream
The American dream – opportunity, education, and freedom fueled the rise of immigration into the United States. -
Nativism
Increased immigration in the 1800s produced a negative reaction, known as Nativism, among some Americans. This view favors people in a country over immigrants to that country. This caused a lot of anti-immigrant feelings which effected the political landscape. -
The Gilded Age
That the period was shining on the surface but corrupted underneath. In the late nineteenth century was a period of greed and duplicity. The Gilded Age as an era of corruption, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism -
Political Machines
They were organizations that provided jobs and social services to people in exchange for jobs in the 1800s. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie led the expansion of steel in the 19th century. He made his own steel company then later sold it for it. Andrew was the richest men in the 19th entury then gave it all away. -
Upton Sinclair
He wrote the well named book called "The Jungle". Which exposed the worse conditions for the meat packing industry in America in during the early 20th century -
Civil Service Reform
It changed the policy of elected officials placing their supporters and contributors in civil service jobs in the 1800s, to jobs being filled by people that had to pass exams to get the jobs, which led to more expertise in the jobs and less politics. -
Haymarket Riot
The trials in the their that followed proved that the injustices of judicary system. That was an anarchy against the government. -
The Dawes Act
It was important for tribal people because it took away the some of their traditional ways. It ended ownership and owned by individual Native Americans -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams co-founded one of the first settlements in the US. She hoped in the Hull House that it would help them have better lives than when they first came here. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American Lawyer. He started from a corporate lawyer to a labor lawyer. Helped out Eugene with the railroad case. -
Urbanization & Industrilization
The rise of industrialization in the 1800s caused more people to move from the country to the urban areas for the opportunity for jobs -
Muckraker
Were journalist, who used their skills and voices to call for reform in the early 1900s by exposing government corruption. -
Third Parties Politics
Although third party candidates rarely actually win elections, they can have an effect on them. -
Klondike Gold RushIda
Where gold was discovered, as the news reached Seattle and San Francisco. They all rushed to go get the gold only 30,000-40,000 arrived. Some became wealthy, majority went into vain and struck gold. -
Social Gospel
Movement in the early 1900s that applied Christian ethics to issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and war. -
Populism & Progressivism
Led to multiple reforms in the early 1900s including woman suffrage, regulation of child labor, and expansion of social service and education opportunities -
Teddy Roosevelt
Was part of the Rough Riders that charged up San Juan Hill during the Spanish Amrican war. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
These processes gave more power to the citizens to control the governments actions by popular voting of bills, recalling elected officials, and initiating proposed laws and amendments onto the ballots. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Was to prohibit interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs. Scandals concerning the purity and quality of food sold to the U.S. public became widespread as the unsanitary plans used by the food industry were closed. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Was the effort of the United States in the early 1900s to influence Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
16th Amendment
That within the constitution it allows the federal government to collect taxes from other Americans on income without dividing or giving half among other states. -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment helped us vote for the senators in the United States senate. -
Federal Reserve Act
Is the central bank of the United States. The Federal Reserve was to provide the nation with a safer, flexible and stable monetary and financial system. -
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment was to prohibit things like manufactue, sale, export, import, transportaion of alcohol beverages. Whereas soon one amendent will repeal it. -
19th Amendment
When women were not allowed the same rights as men this is what the 19th amendment did, it allowed all women to vote and be equal the same as men. -
TeaPot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s involved national security, big oil companies with giving and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the U.S. It was the most horrendous in the country’s history prior. -
Ida B. Wells
A founder member of the NAACP. First black women to run for state legislature. She refused to get up from her seat then later won a lawsuit against it.
