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Political Machines
a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses -
Susan B. Anthony
was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act was signed by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry -
robber barons
a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century). -
Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Nativism
political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Victor Debs was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, 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
an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. -
William Jennings Bryan
American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States -
Jane Addams
known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace -
Homestead act
The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain -
Ida B. Wells
an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Upton Sinclair
was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Native Americans. -
populism & progressivism
based on the people's dissatisfaction with government and its inability to deal effectively in addressing the problems of the day. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Muckraker
used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
Muckraker
The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
17th Amendments
established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states -
18th Amendment
prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal. -
settlement house
1920s in England and the US. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness -
Suffrage
The amendment, which granted women the right to vote, represented the pinnacle of the women's suffrage movement, -
Nativism
wide national consensus sharply restricted the overall inflow of immigrants, especially those from southern and eastern Europe. -
Social Gospel
a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century -
19th Amendments
prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex -
16th Amendments
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census
