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The Industrial Revolution was of great importance to the economic development of the United States.
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This act let the president grant unsettled lands west of Mississippi in exchange for indian lands.Some tribes went peacefully, but many resisted being relocated.
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This was the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
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The Homestead Act of 1862 provided that any adult citizen who headed a family could qualify for a grant of 160 acres of public land by paying a small registration fee and living on the land continuously for five years.
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It is called urbanization when populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. Maybe tall apartment buildings spring up on what had been the outskirts of town, bringing more people there to live and work.
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the gilded age was when there was, Rapid economic growth generated vast wealth and New products and technologies improved middle-class quality of life. Industrial workers and farmers did not share in the new prosperity, working long hours in dangerous conditions for low pay.
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Was a U.S. Federal law and was enacted in 1883 and established the positions within the Federal Government should be awarded on the basis of merit.
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On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day.
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the Act broke up previous land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservations and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on.
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Both were based on the peoples dissatisfaction with government and its inability to deal in addressing the problems of the day. The supporters of both these movements had become especially outraged that moneyed special interest groups controlled government, and that the people had no ability to break this control.
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He electrified the democratic convention with his stirring "Cross of Gold" speech and that helped him get the presidential nomination.
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A 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.
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This is meaning one who inquires into and publishes scandal allegations of corruption among political and business.
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the pure food and drug act 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.
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the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
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Allows congress to levy and collect taxes on income.
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Requires direct election of senators
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The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability in the United States through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy.
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This is a party for the votes that failed to outpoll either its two strongest rivals.
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Prohibits the making,transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
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Guarantees suffrage to woman
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It was the right to vote in political elections.
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teapot dome scandal was surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. After President Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921.
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This was a policy favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants.
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Immigrants and Americans thought the American dream was "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth" that is why there were so many immigrants moving to the US
