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Immigration & the American Dream
Immigrants look for a good job and home ownership. The united states offers all of this . America has good opportunities for immigrants but sometimes they don't have the money, so they just go illegally , some get caught and some don't . immigrants want higher education so they can get more money for their families. i put the date like that because i don't know the actual thing, it only shows me 1800's . -
Susan B Anthony
Susan was an American social reformer and woman's rights advocate. She kinda played a big role in the women's suffrage movement. She also campaigned for the abolition of slavery, the right for women to own their own property and retain their earnings, and she advocated for women's labor organizations. In 1900, Anthony persuaded the University of Rochester to admit women. She never married in her life. -
Indian Removal
This law,by President Jackson, This was prompted by the desire to settle the land but was also due to the discovery of g o l d . The Indian Removal Act gave the federal government the power to force the location of any Native American Indians, living in the east of the country, to territory that was west of the Mississippi River. The 1830 Indian Removal Act led to the forced migration of approximately 60,000 Native Americans including the journey on the famous Trail of Tears. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew was among the wealthiest and most famous industrialists of his day. His fortune has supported everything from the discovery of insulin and the dismantling of nuclear weapons to the creation of Pell Grants and Sesame Street. "To try to make the world in some way better than you found it is to have a noble motive in life."
-Andrew Carnegie
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Industrialization
Meaning that manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines. Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production . people were working their butts off. -
Manifest Destiny
This happened, well it was a belief that was held widely that the destiny of american settlers were to go and move across the whole continent to spread tradition or religion or whatever they would like but while at the same time discovering more nations. -
Nativism
To protect the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Eugene V. Debbs
He entered politics as a Democratic City Clerk in 1879, and in 1885 he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with broad support from Terre Haute’s workers and businessmen. Debs organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago in 1894. Later on in his life he was sentenced with 10 years of jail time for his opposition to the U.S. involvement in world war 2 . -
Clarence Darrow
He was the most famous attorney in America and a persuasive speaker . He was most known by defending some teenage murderers in the Scopes "monkey" trial. He used to always bribe a lot which was bad and he later on was considered a criminal lawyer. He only lost one trial . -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore was the youngest president in the nations history. HIs mother and wife both died on the same day, but he remarried. During the Spanish-American war, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment , which led to charge at the battle of San Juan. -
William Jennings Bryan
He surprised many people because he was supporting ratification of the Treaty of Paris. William was a complete pacifist which led him to be resigned on World War 1. He was the best known orator and lecturer in that era. -
Jane Addams
Jane was a femenist and an internationalist who won worldwide recognition as a pioneer social worker in America.She graduated from the Rockford Female Seminary, she became to study medicine but then left because of poor health. -
Ida B Wells
Ida was an african american journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the U.S. She was a daughter of slaves . She went on to found and become integral in groups striving for african american justice. Everything started when she was traveling and was later moved to an african american only train car. She was outraged. -
Homestead Act
The homestead act was a law passed by congress in the year 1862, which fulfilled 160 acres of federal land to any united states citizen. A person was given ownership of the land for free if only that person lived on that land for five years while also improving the land. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was when people tried to make the world a better place but in reality it was all horrible , for example when people where cutting their arms but were forced to work no matter what problem they had. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was a writer whose works, including 'The Jungle' and 'Boston,' usually uncovered social injustices. Since he was involved with socialism he was led to a writing assignment about plight workers in the meatpacking business. That got his inspiration for the novel "The Jungle". All of his other works were unsuccessful. He was a serious novelist. -
Haymarket Riot
In May 4th , striking workers fought with Chicago police officers outside the factory. In the ensuing violence, four strikers died and dozens more were injured/hurt. Several police officers were beat up as well. Workers and other radicals called for supporters to 'arm yourselves and appear in full force' at a huge rally at Haymarket Square. -
Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. Apparently this law would civilize the indians. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Some people (indians) found gold in Rabbit Creek, near Dawson, in the Yukon region of Canada. The creek was promptly renamed Bonanza Creek, and many of the locals started staking claims. -
Initiative & Referendum
This processes that allow citizens of many states to vote directly on particular pieces of legislation. An initiative process allows citizens to propose or initiate a statute or constitutional amendment. -
Urbanization
Urbanization is where a whole population of people move from rural to urban areas. Like they should move to a city-like area ? or to leave from them, probably the second one since the government wanted people to experience new places -
Political Machines
Political machines are a political organization in where a boss or a small group orders for the support of corps of supporters and businesses. Which usually receive rewards for their efforts. -
Populism and Progressivism
Progressivism was based on the idea that government could be used to better the society.
Populism farmers , laborers and middle class activists founded a political party named the peoples party. also known as the populist party. both sought reform and modernization of american society. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This law prevented 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. -
16th Amendment
Allows congress to levy income tax without apportioning. They could lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived. -
Dollar Diplomacy
A dollar diplomacy is the use of a country's financial power to extend the international influence. -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment was part of a progressive constitutional reforms that sought to make the constitution, and our nation more "democratic" . It gave americans the right to vote directly for the people in the senate. This caused the connection of the citizens and the government to strengthen. -
Federal Reserve Act
It was a U.S. legislation that created the current Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the United States. -
18th amendment
It's the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol -
Suffrage
Suffrage was the struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the overall women's rights movement. -
19th Amendment
It prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. Doesn't matter is you're a plant boy or bus. You can still vote. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States of America from 1921 to 1922, during the ruling of President Warren G. Harding. -
Civil Right Reform of 1978
This act abolished or got rid off the U.S civil service commission and spreaded the functions primarily along some 3 new agencies. Which are called OPM, MSPB, and FLRA -
Muckraker
A muckraker is usually 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. Muckraker are often journalists. -
Third Parties Politics
Third Parties never usually succeed . but its any party counting votes that failed to outpoll either of the two strongest rivals .
