Unit 3 Key Terms Project

  • third parties politics

    this is any political party that are not part of the two major one so third parties are the democrates AND republicans and this parties contributed alot to the western era
  • nativism

    this was the protecting of natives and it had gave them the right to live life according to there culture.
  • indian removal

    this is when the federl government had the right to remove indians from there land.
  • manifest destiny

    it was a widley belif that said settelers in the united states had the right to spread out through out the united states.
  • suffrage

    the right for everyone including women to vote elections and this was important so people can have the right to vote for there leaders.
  • homestead act

    this is when abraham lincon allowed to people file for grants to get lland to live on and farm on the land.
  • Eugene V. Debbs

    speaks during the presidential campaign of 1904. In December 1871 he left the railroad yards for work on the railways as a locomotive fireman for the same company. In July 1875, he left to work at a wholesale grocery house, where he remained for the next four years,[5] attending a local business school at night.
  • social gospel

    this organization had applied christian ethics and belifs to problems that were going in the world and during this time period it was a group that fought aginst issues during the historic period of the west
  • civil service reform act

    this is an act to preform the civil service of the united states of america by orginizing labor laws on work onditions to avoid conflict
  • haymarket riot

    it was a riot that took place after the bombing at a labor demstarion in chicago, illinois
  • dawes act

    this is when the government was taking the land from the americans and giving it to the indidans because they were better at farming.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
  • Teddy Roosevelt

    When war broke out with Spain, Roosevelt went to Cuba and led a volunteer regiment that became recognized as the Rough Riders. After his military service, he secured the Republican gubernatorial nomination, and was elected governor on November 8,1898.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. By the time he was in his early 30s, Carnegie had become a very wealthy man.
  • Upton Sinclair

    In 1904, Sinclair had spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the newspaper. It was published as a book on February 26, 1906 by Doubleday and in a subscribers' edition.
  • susan b. anthony

    Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
  • Jane Addams

    She was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children.In 1905 she was appointed to Chicago's Board of Education and subsequently made chairman of the School Management Committee. In January, 1915, she accepted the chairmanship of the Women's Peace Party, December 10, 1931, that the Nobel Peace Prize was being awarded to her in Oslo.