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Industrialization
Industrialization was a time period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an low statue society into a industrial society. It involved the extensive reorganization of an economy for purpose of manufacturing. It brought increases volume and variety of manufactured goods and living standard. -
Nativism
Nativism is the political policy of promoting the interest of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. This currently more commonly described as a anti-immigrants position. This was mostly common in the Manifest Destiny time period when the immigrants had kicked out anyone that tried to come in their land. -
Indian Removal
This act was signed into law by Andrew Jackson in May 28 1830. It authorized the president to grant unsettles lands west of Mississippi. They wanted to take the lands away from the Indians to keep for themselves for the Manifest Destiny. -
Manifest Destiny
The Manifest Destiny lasted July and August after the immigration to the new world. This was a belief that many Americans duty was to expand into the west. This had claimed it was because the God and religion had send them to do so. -
Sufferage
This is the right to vote in public political elections. It gives the right to vote. This right is often associated with the women's movements to win voting rights. -
Susan B Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was a American social reformer and was also a women's rights activist. She had played a big and important role in the women's suffrage movement. In 1852 she had attended her first women;s right convention in Syracuse -
Third Parties Politics
A third party is any party contending voters that failed to out pull either of its two strongest rivals. Third parties often have a hard time winning at election. They are less known because the 2 parties are what are mostly being publicized. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist. He has also been a big part in the expansion of the steel industry in America because he had helped lead this event in the 19th Century. In 1859 he had officially been elected to become superintended of the Western Division. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act helped free lands for hundreds of thousands of families.This act had started that every citizen or intended citizens could claim 160 acres of government land. The people that claimed the land could only keep it for just 10 dollars but were responsible for making the land better by cropping and adding life in under 5 years. -
The Golded Age
The Golden Age was a time period filled with rapid economic growth and social conflict. This time period consisted of gold mining and industrial growth, and population growth. It left many people but some still struggled for survival. -
Civil Service Reform
The Civil Service Reform was a result of the American political system taking to much power from the people. This reform was done to stop the spoil political system. There was a civil service act passed later due to the spoil political system. -
Haymarket Riot
This was a bombing that occurred near Chicago's Hay market square. This was an organized movement in America, people were fighting for their rights in America. The people involved in this riot were seen as martyrs. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act was a plan to breakup. Indians as individuals instead of tribes. The Government had planned to take the remainder of the land they gave to the Indians that was still the good land, but they could keep the bad land. If Indians were to keep the land, the government told them they had to be westernized in order to stay. -
Ida B Wells
Ida B Wells was an African American woman who was a journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She had led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in 1890. She showed that lynching was often used in the South was out of control. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Victor Debs was an American union leader and was also one of the founding members of the Industrial Works of he world. He had founded the American Railway Union in 1893. The ARU was the union for all railroad worked and had met with great success but later become substandard. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was part of the Democratic convection. He made a Cross of Gold Speech in favor of free silver. Bryan believed the government should protect the individuals and the democratic process from monopolistic corporations. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a time when gold was discovered in north-western Canada. Many people went our to look for gold which many succeed but some also didn't profit from anything. Some miners just bought and claimed and hired others to look for the Gold. -
Initiative & Referendum
An initiative process had allowed citizens to make and start a statue or constitutional amendment. The Referendum Process allows citizens to refer a statue passes by the legislative to the ballot so that voters can keep or repeal the measure. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism and Progressiveness was a way that was used for the government to improve the society. Farmers and labors found the people party in 1900. These people wanted to be able to say more to the government rather then have their rights taken from them in silence. -
Muckraker
A muckraker is a person who intentionally seeks out and publishes the misdeeds, such as criminal acts or corruption of a public individual for profit or gain. Sometimes this information is linked to powerful businessmen. This work is often applied specifically to journalists. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of US and was also on American statesman, soldier, author, and a naturalist. He had become the president after William Mickey was associated in 1901. After his presidential election during the Industrial Revolution, labor unions began to receive kinder treatments. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American novelist and writer. He is best known for his work with The Jungle. The Jungle was a novel written by him who helped improved the working conditions in the meat packing which was written and published in 1906. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Theodore Roosevelt had signed the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. This act propose was to protect from adulteration from food. It also helped the people become addicted to the drugs that were in easy access to them especially in the black neighborhoods. -
16th Amendments
This amendment allows the federal governments to collect tax from all Americans. The income tax allows the federal government to keep an army and build roads and bridges. It also help enforce laws and import other duties. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Was inspired by President William Howard Taft and secretary of state Philander C Knox. The goal of this diplomacy was to create stability that would best promote American commercial interest. Also it would be a big boost for the US interest overseas. -
17th Amendments
The 17th Amendments to the constitution stated that each state should have their own representatives or senators. The electors in each states should have qualifications needed to serve that state. It is important because you need to have an equal amount of senators to work in law making and also represent them in state. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and was also a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He attended law school and after 5 years he was making many from his railroads. In 1912 he almost lost his job for defending two union officials accused of murder. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reservation system is the central banking system of the United States. This act was created in 1913. It helped provide the nations with a safer, more flexible and stable monetary and financial system. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment of the United States constitution effectively established to help the use of alcoholic beverage in the United States. This Amendment has banned the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. This was passed in 1919. -
Political Machines
Political Machines were made to help a city organize rapid urbanization and population growth. An authorize small groups that had supported crops of the supporters and businesses. These machines were mostly used enlarge cities and were managed around the clock by bosses. -
19th Amendment
This Amendment had granted the right for woman to vote. The 19th Amendment states that the US Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government for denying the right to vote to citizens of the US on the basis of sex. It was passes in 1920. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Tea Pot Dome Scandal had taken away a lot of sources of oil. It had exchanged companies for financial compensation. The Us Navy would have all the tea that they needed. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was known as the "mother of social works." Addams was an American pioneer, activist, helped in the women rights movement, etc. In 1931 she had won a Nobel Peace Prize, she was the second woman to receive the award. -
Immigration and the American Dream
Immigrants wanted to become better people in a new state. They wanted better jobs and have ownership and pursuit of opportunity. The immigrants wanted their loved ones to grow up with more opportunity and a better life, instead of in suffer. -
Urbanization
Urbanization had happened after the move to the west had developed. This term meant that the new world was now shifting from rural to Urban areas. People moved to these new areas for better opportunities, a better job, and a better life in general.