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Susan B Anthony
Worked as a teacher before she became a huge part in the Womans Voting Rights Movement. She would also come to be a leader for the NAtional American Womans Sufferage Association. -
Indian Removal
The Indian removal is a part of american history in which the americans saw the Indians as an obsticle and that they should be removed because they were restricting their progress of Manifest Destiny -
Andrew Carnegie
Self made business man. Had the biggest steel company in the country. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the widely spread beilef that the United States could, and would, expand towards coast to coast. -
Clarance Darrow
Well Known for being a lawyer and defending Eugene V Debbs after the Pullman strike. Also defended anarchists in the Haymarket Riot. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Govenern of New York before becoming the Vice President. He had made amazing changes to the US, also finishing the Panama Canal. -
William Jennings Bryan
Elected as a Congressman in 1891. Didn't like the banks because of their gold standard. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams cofounded one of the first settlements in the US. Also co-won the nobel peace prize in 1931. -
Homestead Act
In 1862 Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act which allowed anybody who hadn't fought against the government and who was of age could buy a land grant. (Includes freed slaves and women) -
Ida B Wells
A journalist best known for her part in the African Americans rights movements and founding her own African-American Justice. -
Political Machines
A Political Machine is a organization or boss that has authority over smaller groups. They also recieve awards. -
Urbanization and Industrialization
Urbanization- Is th movemnt of a group of people from rural areas to more urban ones. Industrialization- This is where a country moves from a agricultural status, to a industrial status. Meaning that there are less farms and more factories. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism- Appeled to the masses in genernal, the ideas were to improve as a country but also conform to social justices. Progressivism- appealed to the richer people, the ideas were pretty much the same but progressivism didnt confrom the the social justice. -
Social Gospel
Prtestant social reform movement from the 1870's to the 1920's. The movement was trying to bring religion into social problems. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a time during the late 1800's filled with economic growth. Many wages for American workers went up and there was an increse of industrialiaztion. The term Giled Age was actually taken from Mark Twains book "The Gildes Age: A Tale of Today" -
Third Parties Politics
Political Party that contended for votes and failed to outpoll the other to political parties. This party usually helps one of the dominating parties get votes. -
Upton Sinclair
Most known for as an author, for his novel The Jungle, which described all of the horrors of the meat packing industries, leading the government to pass laws and regulations for meat. -
Immigration and the American Dream
Immigration- Is the act of moving to live in another foreign country permenatly. The American Dream- This was the idea that every American should have an equal oppertunity to have success and prosperity, through hard work and etermination. -
Nativism
The term Nativism came when immigrants, mainly chinese, started moving out west in the search for jobs. The americans that were already living there were scared that the immigrants were gonna take their jobs and money so they started to push against immigrants who wanted to move . -
Civil Service Reform
This Act said that government jobs should be handed out on the basis of merit. The Act also stated that you could not be fired or demoted because of political reasons. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Became president of the American Railway Union in 1893. Very well known as an activist for rights like higher wages. -
Haymarket Riot
Occured, after the protesting, when somebody threw a bomb at the police and a riot broke out. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887 divided Native Americans land up into individual spaces and gave them their own land. the rest of the land was sold to Americans. -
Muracker
American Journalists that accuratly and truthfully exposed political and economic courrpution and social hardships. -
The Klondike Gold Rush
The Klodike Gold Rush was started when three men, Geroge Washington Carmak, Jim Mason and Dawson Charlie, found gold in Alaska starting one of the greatest gold rushes in Amerian history. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative- allows citzens to bypass thier legislation by a means of stuates Referendum- term tha refers to a measure that appears on the ballot in voting Recall- Is the initative that allows citizens to remove and replace their public offical before the term is up -
Pure Food and Drug Act
US Federal Law that said that factories will be given a federal inspect of meat and forbade any production, selling or transportation of impure foods. -
Dollar Diplomacy
The dollar diplomacy is aan act by a government to spread its countries influance throughout the world. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act that Congress passed in 1913 that set up the centeral banking system in the United States -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Wall Street Journal had reported a secret arrangement in which the secretary of the interior had leased the US Naval Petrolium preserve to a privately owned oil company. Most significant invetigations the senate has done in history.
