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Standard oil
Standard Oil played a crucial role in the growth of the U.S economy to its areas such as the railroads, other industries, as well as the government and, although it is criticized for a multitude of questionable business activities, Standard Oil did indeed benefit the U.S Economy in a number of ways. -
Purchase of Alaska
This was the end to Russian expansion of trade to the pacific coast of north America. It became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region. -
Social Darwinism
This was a belief held by many that stated that the rich were rich and the poor were poor due to natural selection in society. This was the basis of many people who promoted a free style of economy. -
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Social Gospel
The Social Gospel Movement was key in influencing the improvement of the working conditions of the working classes. In the short term, it would immediately cut all excesses committed against the overall health and well being of the working class. -
Panic of 1873
The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1877, and even longer in France and Britain. -
WCTU
The prohibition of alcohol, using women's supposedly greater purity and morality as a rallying point. Advocates of prohibition in the United States found common cause with activists elsewhere, especially in Britain, and in the 1880s they founded the World Women's Christian Temperance Union, which sent missionaries around the world to spread the gospel of temperance. -
The Telephone
The telephone was instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice. The telephone is inexpensive, is simple to operate, and offers its users an immediate, personal type of communication that cannot be obtained through any other medium. As a result, it has become the most widely used telecommunications device in the world. Billions of telephones are in use around the world. -
Pendleton Act of 1881
It enacted civil service reform, said the Civil Service Exam must be taken in order to recieve most government jobs highest scores got the jobs banned federal employees from giving campaign money to their party. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization. This also would put a damage on trade. -
Dawes Act
United States post-Indian Wars law intended to assimilate Indians into white U.S. society by encouraging them to abandon their tribally-owned reservation lands, along with their cultural and social traditions. -
Hull House
Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, -
wounded knee
This was a massacre that started when Sioux left the reservation in protest because of the death of Sitting Bull. The US army killed 150 sioux at wounded knee; last major incident in the great plains. -
Omaha platform
This was the political agenda adopted by the populist party in 1892 at their Omaha, Nebraska convention. Called for unlimited coinage of silver (bimetallism), government regulation of railroads and industry, graduated income tax, and a number of election reforms. -
Panic of 1893
During this time banks closed, businesses and manufactures were not able to open because they didn't have cash to pay for the workers nor materials. This was the worst economical crash in history. -
Anti-Saloon League
It was a key component of the Progressive Era, and was strongest in the South and rural North, drawing heavy support from pietistic Protestant ministers and their congregations, especially Methodists, Baptists, Disciples and Congregationalists. -
Commission
This was a form of city government where executive power is invested in a group of professional commissioners chosen for their skills and expertise. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Made the separate but equal doctrine. Helped with racial controversy. -
Cross of Gold Speech
An address given by Bryan, the Democratic presidential nominee during the national convention of the Democratic party, it criticized the gold standard and supported the coinage of silver. His beliefs were popular with debt-ridden farmers. -
Forest Management Act
The Forest Service Organic Administration Act of 1897 provided the main statutory basis for the management of forest reserves in the United States, hence the commonly used term "Organic Act". The legislation's formal title is the Sundry Civil Appropriations Act of 1897, which was signed into law on June 4, 1897, by President William McKinley. -
Angel Island
This was the main immigration processing station in the west coast in san fransisco, mainly Chinese. The station also functioned as an interrogation and detention center during the height of national hostility toward Chinese and other Asians seeking new lives in the United States.
