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Manifest Destiny
belief that the expansion of the U.S throughout the American Continents was justified by God and inevitable -
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Immigration and the American Dream
the American Dream is the idea or Dream that every U.S Citizen has equal opportunity to achieve their dream life in the U.S the American Dream during westward expansion was to spread across the Americas. -
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Urbanization
a population shift from rural to urban areas. Urbanization was one of the most defining characteristics about Industrialization, rise of cities, small towns became large cities. -
Nativism
the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants -
Homestead Act
promised every person who paid 10 dollars, would get 160 acres if that person promised to work that land for 5 years. -
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The Gilded Age
the time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misleadings and many wealthy people lived very fancy lives -
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie starts his business "Carnegie Steel Company" and it grew to become the biggest steel company of it's time and it made Carnegie one of the richest men in U.S history. This is significant to industrialization because this business use technology and methods that made manufacturing easier, faster, and more productive. -
Susan B. Anthony
founded national women's rights suffrage association to support a women's right to vote, and even illegally voting in 1872 -
Civil Service Reform
established that positions within federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation -
Haymarket Riot
was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket square in Chicago. -
Jane Addams
Addams was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, one of the first settlements in the U.S and North America. The house provided services and housing for immigrants and poor people living in Chicago. This is significant to westward expansion because Americans were settling in more places -
Eugene Debs
founded the American Railway Union which wanted to unionize all railway workers, they protested wage cuts and other wrong doings done to railway workers. This is significant because most railway workers were significantly under payed and they needed to protest -
Suffrage
the right to vote in political elections -
Klondike Gold Rush
a rush of thousands of people in the 1890s toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there. -
Muckraker
to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigate journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century was 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, and it directed the U.S Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors. -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" was published and it became a best seller. The Jungle was about the mistreatment of workers in the meat packing industry and among it's reader was President Roosevelt who invited Sinclair to the White House and ordered an inspection of the meatpacking industry which led to the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the meat inspection acts being passed in 1906 -
Clarence Darrow
One of the most famous trial attorney's in America, he was known for his persuasive speaking. His most famous case was in 1912 when he defended 2 union officials charged with murder in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building. The 2 Union workers were found not guilty. -
William Jennings Bryan
named secretary of state, he promoted concilation, agreement between 2 disputing parties to wait a year before going to war to seek outside fact finding -
16th Amendment
Gave the government power to lay and collect taxes on incomes -
17th Amendment
The senate of the U.S will be composed of 2 senators from each state, elected by the people for 6 years, each senator will have 1 vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
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 a legal tender. -
19th Amendment
Women's Right to Vote -
18th Amendments
established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal -
Tea Pot dome Scandal
surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall, a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923 during the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
Indian Removal Act
a law that was passed by congress 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 -
Dawes Act
divided American Indian tribal land into allotments, those who accepted this would be granted U.S citizenships. This attempted to assimilate Indians into white culture. -
Populism & Progressive
Populism is a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite. Populism is important to westward expansion because around these times the U.S was very dependent on the power of the people and they believed they could settle and start building towns around new territory. -
Political Machines
A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. Political Machines were used in Industrialization for the railroads. -
Dollar Diplomacy
The use of a country's financial power to extend it's international influence. Dollar Diplomacy was used during westward expansion because the U.S was using their financial power to buy land and spread across the americas. -
Initiative and Referendum
2 of the 3 powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
Industrialization
when Nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker nations
