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Rapid growth of cities due to immigration and migration. Provides hordes of cheap labor for industries.
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For most the american dream was to bring more culture to the states and educate us more on that aspect. for others it was the manifest destiny which helped us expand westward along with immigrants.
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Name given to industrialists who used ruthless tactics to achieve monopolies/trust. One of the most common ones is John D Rockefeller.
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Mainly occurred in the north. It began with machines that do the work the people used to do; factory work replaced farm work.
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Declared the Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. Any attempts at interference by a European power would be seen as a threat to the U.S.
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Jackson's removal of Native Americans from their lands in the eastern United States to reservations in Oklahoma and other western territories.
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The idea that churches should address social issues, predicting that socialism would be the logical outcome of Christianity
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Belief that expansion of the U.S. moving west. To bring the good to the bad and make the bad good.
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A cheap and efficient process for making steel led to a boom in steel production and sparked industrial revolution-oil
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Belief that native-born white americans are superior to newcomers. They thought that they were better than all the other native americans around.
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An organization that uses a political boss (Boss Tweed). They bribe immigrants for votes, receive kickbacks (bribes) for government building projects, and commit voter fraud.
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Government program to encourage the settlement of the Great Plains by offering 160 acres of free land
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Devoted to the women's right movement; made speeches and organized state and national conventions on women's rights
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Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry. He co-founded his first steel company near Pittsburg. Over time he created a steel empire maximizing profits and minimizing inefficiencies.
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Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-reconstruction era which was characterized by a facade of prosperity
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Nativist law that banned Chinese immigration after the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Does not allow Chinese immigrants into the united states.
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This is the aftermath of the bombing that took place at a labor demonstration
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Attempt to assimilate or "Americanize" Native Americans into society. They tried to take the indian out of the man but keep the man.
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Head of the American Railroad Union and director of the Pullman strike. He was imprisoned with his associates for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking.
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Founded Hull House to help immigrants settle better in america. She turned an old mansion into a new home for immigrants.
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The movement in to increase democracy in America by curbing the power of the corporation. It fought to end corruption in government and business, and worked to bring equal rights of women and other groups that had been left behind during the industrial revolution.
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Political party focusing on the people; fight low prices while fighting high cost.
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100,000 people travel to Canada in hope of successfully prospecting for gold. Some discovered very rich deposits of gold and became very rich.
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Newspaper exaggerates stories to fire up americans to get involved in cuban war
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Voters can propose and vote for new laws. Legislators proposes a law; voters vote on it
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Has the ability to remove elected representative from office.
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This was one of the many acts passed while Roosevelt was in office. It became due to education and exposure from Muckrakers and researches. It was a law the provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture of adulterated food products.
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They were journalists who exposed the dirt, corruption, and ills of American society
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Progressive author and a onetime candidate for governor of California. He's famous for his muckraking novels such as The Jungle.
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Wealthy countries control poorer countries through money
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The 26th president of the United States. Lead the progressive movement. Lead the republican party but was also the leader of the short-lived progressive "Bull Moose" party of 1912
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An early supporter of women's suffrage. In 1913 she refused to march at the back of a white delegation of women at a suffrage demonstration
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This amendment gave Congress the power ti tax income
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The act that created the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the united states, which was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson.
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providing for the election of 2 U.S senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of 6 years
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Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
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This amendment allows women to finally vote for their president and not just men. Now everybody gets the opportunity to vote
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Albert Fall leased government land in California and at Teapot Dome, Wyoming to 2 oil executives and he became the first Cabinet official to be sent to prison
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Joined the prosecution in the 'Monkey Trials" against the teaching of evolution in schools. He was supposed to be an expert on the Bible, but was made to look silly in the case and died soon afterwards.
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A famed criminal defense lawyer for Scopes, who supported evolution. He caused William Jennings Bryan to appear foolish when Darrow questioned Bryan about the Bible.
