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  • Industrialization
    Nov 7, 1500

    Industrialization

    the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one.
  • Recall
    Nov 7, 1575

    Recall

    bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one's mind, especially so as to recount it to others; remember.
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker

    Muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption.
  • Suffrage

    Suffrage

    The right to vote in political elections.
  • Initiative

    Initiative

    The ability to assess and initiate things independently
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony

    death:March 13, 1906
    she played a role in the women suffrage movment
  • Indian Removal

    Indian Removal

    A law that was passed by Congress during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.
  • Nativism

    Nativism

    The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    death:August 11, 1919,
    He lead the enormous expansion of the america steal industry in the 19th century
  • Referendum

    Referendum

    A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.
  • Teddy Roosevelt

    Teddy Roosevelt

    Death: January 6, 1919
    he wa the 26th presedent of the united states
  • Eugene V. Debbs

    Eugene V. Debbs

    Death:October 20, 1926
    an american union leader
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow

    death:March 13, 1938
    he was an american lawyer and a leader of a american civil Liberties Union
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan

    Death:July 26, 1925
    he was a leading american politician from the 1890s
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams

    death:May 21,1935
    She lead the women suffrage and world peace
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells

    death: March 25, 1931
    she was an aferican american journalist
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    A special act of Congress that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
  • immigration

    immigration

    he action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country
  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age

    Spanned the final three decades of the nineteenth century, was one of the most dynamic, contentious, and volatile periods in American history.
  • The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act

    Broke up previous land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservations, and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair

    Death:November 25, 1968
    An american author who wrote about 100 books
  • the American Dream

    the American Dream

    the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American.
  • Civil Service Reform

    Civil Service Reform

    An 1883 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 so-called "spoils system."
  • Haymarket Riot

    Haymarket Riot

    Was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush

    A rush of thousands of people in the 1890s toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines

    organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.
  • Progressivism

    Progressivism

    A wide spectrum of social movements that include environmentalism, labor, agrarianism, anti-poverty, peace, anti-racism, civil rights, women's rights, animal rights
  • Third Parties Politics

    Third Parties Politics

    contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals (or, in the context of an impending election, is considered highly unlikely to do so). The distinction is particularly significant in two-party systems.
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny

    The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    A United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.
  • 16th Amendments

    16th Amendments

    gave congess the power to tax income
  • 17th amendment

    17th amendment

    It calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    The central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender.
  • Social Gospel

    Social Gospel

    Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform.
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment

    Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    extended the right to vote for women in federal or state elections
  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
  • The American Dream

    The American Dream

    the amrican dream is a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Dollar Diplomacy

    The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
  • Populism

    Populism

    A political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions (such as fears) of the general people, especially contrasting those interests with the interests of the elite.
  • Urbanization

    Urbanization

    the increasing number of people that migrate from rural to urban areas