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Urbanization is people moving to the more populated ares of the country
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The American dream includes the opportunity for prosperity and success and an upward social mobility for their family and children.
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Industrialization is the prepare by which an economy is changed from basically rural to one based on the fabricating of products.
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Was a political organization which a small boss commands the support of businesses who receive rewards for their efforts
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The Monroe Doctrine stated that the free American continents are not to be subject to future colonization by European powers.
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The Indian Removal Act was signed by Andrew Jackson On May, 28, 1830. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal.
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The Nativists went open in 1854 when they shaped the 'American Party', which was particularly unfriendly to the migration of Irish Catholics and campaigned for laws to require longer hold up time between migration and naturalization.
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The Manifest Destiny was significant to the expansion of the United States in the 19th century. It was the primary force that caused the United States to expand west across North America.
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She was a women's rights advocate and she was also a leader of National Women Suffrage Association.
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The Bessemer Process is a process used to make steel from iron which produced steel cheaply and very efficiently
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Nineteenth-century robber barons included J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W. Mellon, and John D. Rockefeller.
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He was an American Industrialist that gathered a large fortune in the steel industry and later became a major philanthropist. He had worked in a cotton factory before he rising to what we know him as today.
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The Homestead is one of the most significant events that took place during the westward expansion.
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This was knights of labor that started by individuals. This allowed anyone to join regardless of sex or skill.
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Social Gospel was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ.
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A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. Late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration.
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The Haymarket riot was a protest that took place in Chicago near Haymarket Square after someone threw a bomb at police officers. This resulted in at least 8 people dying that day.
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The Dawes act was adopted by congress in 1887 which was authorized by the president of the united states to divide American indian Tribal land
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He was a pioneer American settlement reformer, philosopher, sociologist, and was a leader in women's suffrage, and world peace
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Ida B. Wells was a journalist, she led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s, and went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice.
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He was a socialist and became active in the labor movement in the 1870s. He created the American Railway Union
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Yellow Journalism is when in news papers they were made to sway the public opinion of a certain subject going on in that time period
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It was a migration event by around 100,000 people trying to get to the Klondike region of north-western Canda
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Became a congressmen in 1890, he starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold Speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley.
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Activity, choice, and review are three powers saved to empower the voters, by appeal, to propose or cancel enactment or to expel an chosen official from office.
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He is known as the First President of The United States. His presidency allowed the progressive movement with credibility.
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An Act preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
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Muckraking writers effectively uncovered America's issues expedited by quick industrialization and development of urban areas. Compelling mud slingers made open familiarity with debasement, social treacheries and misuse of energy.
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Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.
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Dollar Diplomacy is when William Howard followed a Dollar diplomacy
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Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes.
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The 16th amendment allows the federal (United States) government to collect an income tax from all Americans. Income tax allows for the federal government to keep an army, build roads and bridges.
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The Constitution specified that senators were elected by state legislatures. Consequently, the Constitution was changed with the 17th Amendment so that 'the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years.
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The 18th Amendment did not prohibit the consumption of alcohol, but rather simply the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
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The right for a citizen of the U.S to be allowed to vote cannot be denied because of gender.
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding
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Clarence Darrow volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he saved the child-killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb from the death penalty.
