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Jan 1, 1000
Urbanization
It’s significance is causing modernization in cities; providing jobs. The downside of urbanization is the more urban an area is, the more people there are which means lack of jobs available and much poverty. -
Initiative
Initiative is significant becuase it is what shows just how hard working and motivated a person is, and back then there were tons of perople with intiative that made them very wealthy people. -
Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
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Political Machines
A political machine is basically the organization behind candidates running for office. The ‘machine' works at strategy to hopefully ensure a politician gets elected. Politicians before a campaign often host fundraisers which are designed to 'feed/fuel' the machines. When a leading politician fumbles along the road to election his/her machine may collapse underneath her/him. 'Well-oiled' political machines are deemed necessary to improve candidates' chances at becoming elected to office. -
Immigration
The ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity brought by immigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has shaped American history and politics. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was a key figure in women getting the right to vote. Anthony lectured on temperance, abolition and women's rights from that year until 1860. With Stanton, she pressed for the first laws passed by New York's legislature that ensured for women control of property, wages and rights over their children. -
Nativism
Nativism gained its name from the "Native American" parties. It impacted politics in 19th century United States because of the large flow of immigrants from cultures that were markedly different from American culture that already exists. With nativism it brouth together more of a union in the U.S. -
Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act 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 Carnigie
By 1889 he owned Carnegie Steel Corporation, the largest of its kind in the world. He also gave muhc of his wealth back to the econmy and becuase very know for that as well. -
Clarence Darrow
He took part in attempts to free the anarchists charged with murder in the Haymarket Riot. He left the North Western to defend Eugene V. Debs, president of the American Railway Union, and other union leaders arrested on a federal charge of contempt of court arising from the Pullman Strike. He was significant becuase he saved people from receiving capital punishment and aimed to make sure everyone was protected by the law. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States. He was a leader of the Republican Party (GOP) and founder of the Progressive Party insurgency of 1912. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was not a deep or original thinker, but a sincerely dedicated public servant. He was one of the most prominent figures of his day, but his political appeal was too limited to allow him to become a successful presidential candidate. Many of the goals he failed to achieve; women`s suffrage, a graduated federal income tax, prohibition, and the popular election of U.S. senators would later be enacted into law. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. -
Homestead Act
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
Activist and journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a big supporter of civil rights. Editor and partial owner of her own newspaper, she published articles on topics considered controversial at the time. One of her main causes was fighting the practice of lynching, which she regarded as a horrific form of racial prejudice that no decent human being could ignore or justify. She truly fought for what she thought was right. -
Suffrage
The 19th Amendment granted the ballot to American women. In Great Britain the cause began to attract attention when the philosopher John Stuart Mill presented a petition in Parliament calling for inclusion of women's suffrage in the Reform Act of 1867. SUffrage is significant becuse it gave the woman the right to vote in the 1840s. -
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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age is very significant because not only was the production of useful resources great but it caused an increase on the demand of improved transportation. Railroads were booming and they contributed to the wealth of not only the industry but Men as well, such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. -
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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age is very significant becuase not olny was the production of useful resources great but it caused an increase on the demand of improved transportation. Railroads were booming and they contributed to the wealth of not only the industry but Men as well, such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle was very important becuase he brought it to peoples attention that the conditions of the work plaes, factories and companys were not sanitary. Sinclair was able to have inspections that companys must pass before selling or even making their product. -
Eugene V. Debs
Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation's first industrial unions. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887 adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush, 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. -
Social Gospel
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Progressivism
Democratic reforms of government; use of government and laws to restrict the excesses and abuses of business interests. Progressives accomplished a graduated income tax, electing U.S. senators by direct popular vote, allowing people to participate directly in government by means of referendum, Pure Food and Drug Act, Federal Trade Commission, railroad regulation, the Federal Reserve to regulate banking. -
Muckraker
The words of U.S. President Theodore Teddy Roosevelt helped make the phrase “muckraker” to describe investigative reporting. Becuase this term was made, it allows for the prevention of acandlas. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products -
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Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy is a term used to describe the effort of the U.S. mostly while Taft was President, to increase its foreign policy by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. This practice was started with President Theodore Roosevelt by stating that it was the job of the U.S. to intervene if any nation in the western world was politically unstable and was subject to European control. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
American Dream
The American Dream originated in the early days of the American settlement, with the mostly poor immigrants searching for opportunities. It was first manifested in the Declaration of Independence, which describes an attitude of hope. -
Third Parties Politics
The Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the United States. Millions of Americans have voted for Libertarian Party candidates in past elections throughout the country, despite the fact that many state governments place roadblocks in our path to keep our candidates off the ballot and deprive voters of a real choice. -
Civil Service Reform
This Act was significant because it stated that emloyees of the federal goverment have "the right to get invloved, join, assist or not to assist any working organization, freely without fear of penalty and each emloyee will be protected within the doing of this right.
