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Third Parties Politics
a third party is any party 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. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She believed in social equality and she was against slavery. -
Indian Removal
is a law that was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, 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. -
Andrew Carnegie
death:August 11, 1919
American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Populism
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. -
Eugene V. Debs
American union leader one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who was the 26th President of the United States. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Bryan was a leading American politican from the 1890s until his death. He was Democratic. He standed three times as the party's candidate for president of the United States. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was an American pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, socialogist, author and a leader in womens sufferage and world peace. She won a Nobel Peace Prize. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act of 1862, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Ida B. Wells
A daughter of slaves Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist and activist led an antilynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She was a journalist. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age, which spanned the final three decades of the nineteenth century, was one of the most dynamic, contentious, and volatile periods in American history. -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Suffrage
the right to vote in political elections. -
Upton Sinclair, Jr.
An American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century he made lots of classic novels. -
The American Dream
the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. -
Industrialization
is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one. -
Haymarket Riot
The May 4, 1886, rally at Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works. -
The Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. -
Urbanization
When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. -
Initiative
the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico -
Referendum
a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. -
Recall
officially order (someone) to return to a place. -
Klondike Gold Rush
It is also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, the Canadian Gold Rush, and the Last Great 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. -
Political Machines
political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. It's a religious movement that arose in the United States in the late nineteenth century with the goal of making the Christian churches more responsive to social problems, such as poverty and prostitution. -
Muckraker
muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 is 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. -
Dollar Diplomacy
a government policy of promoting the business interests of its citizens in other countries. -
Progressivism
The Progressives were urban Northeast educated middle-class, Protestant reform-minded men and women. Progressives believed that people and government had the power to correct abuses produced by nature and the free market. -
The 16th Amendement
The congress has the power to collect taxes on incomes. -
The 17th Amendment
the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years. -
Federal Reserve Act
The 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. -
19th amendment
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. -
18th amendment
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration. -
Immigration
the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. -
Civil Service Reform
Act is 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."
