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Indian Removal
It authorized the president to negotiate with Native Americans tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Manifest Destiny
the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. -
Homestead Act
opens government-owned land to small family farmers. -
Susan B. Anthony
Was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
The Gilded Age
characterized by a greatly expanding economy and the emergence of plutocratic influences in government and society. -
Social Gospel
a religious social-reform movement. -
Third Parties Politics
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). -
Civil Service Reform
Proponents denounced the distribution of office by the winners of elections to their supporters as corrupt and inefficient. -
Haymarked Riot
killed several people, and resulted in a highly controversial trial followed by executions of four men who may have been innocent. The American labor movement was dealt a severe setback, and the chaotic events resonated for many years. -
The Dawes Act
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Native American tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Native Americans. -
Andrew Carnegie
He dedicated to the steel industry. Carnegie built plants around the country, using technology and methods that made manufacturing steel easier, faster and more productive. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells-Barnett ranks among the most important founders of modern civil rights and feminist movements among African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States. Her analysis of lynching, especially of mob murder of black men wrongly accused of raping white women, has held up to the scrutiny of generations of scholars and activists. -
Eugene V. Debbs.
Making his way in the railroad industry, Debs formed the AMERICAN RAILWAY UNION. -
Suffrage
The right to vote. Three separate amendments expand the suffrage rights in the American Constitution. -
Clarence Darrow
Darrow represented Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the American Railway Union -
Klondike Gold Rush
A rush of thousands of people toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there. -
William Jennings Bryan
Was the first of the twentieth century "celebrity politicians" better known for their personalities and communications skills than their political views. -
Jane Addams
Addams assembled a group of very committed young women. They became the female face of the democratisation movement in the Progressive Era. From 1900 onwards the United States saw a wave of interest in women’s emancipation, new social laws and attention paid to social and racial tensions. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Once he became President, Roosevelt worked to increase the regulatory power of the federal government. Regulation of railroads was strengthened by the Elkins Act of 1903 and the Hepburn Act of 1906, which curbed the monopolitistic power of the railroads. -
Mackraker
to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair had made his name as a muckraker, writing best-selling books that documented social and economic conditions in 20th century America. His novel, The Jungle, exposed unsanitary conditions and the abuse of workers in Chicago’s meatpacking industry, leading to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (and to Sinclair’s becoming a vegetarian for long periods of his life). -
Dollar Diplomacy
designed to encourage U.S. investments in South and Central American, the Caribbean, and the Far East. -
16th amendment
authorizing Congress to levy a tax on incomes. -
17th amendment
providing for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years. -
Federal Reserve Act
intended to establish a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the United States. -
18th amendment
prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption. -
19th amendment
guaranteeing women the right to vote. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration -
Political Machines
Many machines formed in cities to serve immigrants to the U.S. in the late 19th century who viewed machines as a vehicle for political enfranchisement. Machine staffers helped win elections by turning out large numbers of voters on election day. -
Nativism
is the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.
