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Susan B. Anthony
Brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions, and early in her life she developed a sense of justice and moral zeal. -
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political machines
Organization when a boss or group command support for a buisness -
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3rd party politics
Contends votes that failed to outpoll each other. -
Indian Removal Act
Allowed the president to negotiate with the indian tribes in southern states -
Andrew Carnegie
Led the big expansion of the american steel industry. -
Eugene V. Debbs
one of the founding members of the Industrial workers of the world, and five times the candidate of the socialist party of america for president of the united states. -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and leading member of the american civil liberties union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers -
Teddy Roosevelt
American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States -
William Jennings Bryan
Leading american politician, he was a dominant force in the democratic party. -
Jane Addams
Pioneer woman social worker. She was the leader of Womans Suffrage and a fan of world peace. -
Homestead act
The homestead act allowed people from the west to have territory by giving adult heads of families 160 acres of land that they had to live on for 5 years. -
Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
Urbanization / industrailization
-The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban and industralization is the development of industry on a large scale -
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Social Gospel
Social Gospel was an religious social reform that was important from 1870 to 1920, especially for the groups dedicated to the betterment of society and involved in charity and and justice. -
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Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a period of time for greed. There was rapid economic growth, However the Gilded Age was also known as an area of poverty -
Upton Sinclair
author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. -
Civil service reform
Federal law that abolished the united states civil service commission -
haymarket riot
The Haymarket RIot was the aftermath of a bombing at the labor demonstration in Chicago. Someone threw a bomb at the police and that's when it went crazy, despite the little evidence -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act was "An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations." -
klondike rush
Yukon-area indians found gold in a place called Robin Creek, in the Yukon area of Canada. Gold was literally found all over and most people became wealthy. -
Initiative, Refrendum, Recall
-Power of citizens to introduce a new legislative measure. Submission of a proposed public measure actual statue to a direct popular vote. The procedure by which a public official may be removed from office by popular vote -
Populism & Progressivism
Implanted to initiate national progress -
Manifest Destiney
Americans felt that they were destined to expand from coast to coast. -
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Muckracker
Refrom minded journalists who wrote popular magazines and continued journalism reporting. -
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Nativism
Protecting interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Suffrage
Right to vote -
drug and food act
The Pure Food and Drugs Act was a federal law passed to make sure people were not getting old, nasty meat. -
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16th,17th, & 18th amendments
-the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes.
-The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote
-This amendment prohibits the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol one year after the amendment’s ratification.
-This amendment extends the right to vote to women. -
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dollar diplomacy
“Dollar diplomacy” was in U.S. interventions in the Caribbean and Central America, especially in measures undertaken to safeguard american financial interests. -
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Immigration & American Dream
-The american dream was a dream that most americans wanted to puruse. It was described as the perfect lifestyle immigrants increased population and cities became overcrowded. -
Federal Reserve act
This a federal act set up by the federal system so the United States can be granted the legal authority to issue federal reserve notes. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Scandal was a scandal of the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by secretary.
