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Urbanization
Urbanization is the process of making an area more urban. Urban is the opposite of rural; rural is plain, country not many major cities. Urbanization includes city growth or cities wanting to be more urban. -
Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830. authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Nativism
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Manifest destiny
Manifest destiny started in 1845. Manifest Destiny was the belief that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. -
Initiative and Referendum
Initiative and Referendum three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony went on to work as a teacher before becoming a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights. She partnered with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and would eventually lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association -
Third Parties Politics
A third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals. An example would be any political party besides be Republican and Democratic. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to 1900. The name for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's writings. -
Andrew Carnegie
The Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919 was one of the first "captains of industry." Leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 190 he disposed of his great fortune by endowing educational, cultural, scientific, and technological institutions. -
Industrialization
Industrialization was the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. Industrialization and urbanization affected Americans everywhere. -
Civil Service Reform
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a federal law in the U.S. It established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Ida B. Wells
A daughter of slaves, Ida B. Wells was a journalist. She led an anti-lynching group in the United States in the 1890s. She was also a newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Riot was an outbreak of violence in Chicago on May 4, 1886. Demands for an eight-hour working day became increasingly widespread among American laborers in the 1880s. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act was adopted by congress in 1887. The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was an advocate of immigrants, the poor, women, and peace. Author of numerous articles and books, she founded the first settlement house in the United States. Her best known book, Twenty Years at Hull House, was about the time she spent at the settlement house. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism is a mode of political communication that is based on contrasts between "the common man" or the "people". While progressivism hose who follow or support progressivism are mostly elite, rich, and powerful politicians while those who support populism are the generally masses. -
William Jennings bryan
was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was discovered on August 16, 1896 in Bonanza Creek.The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
political machine
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 which are usually campaign workers, who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene V. Debs was a labour organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920. -
Muckraker
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 -
Theodore Roosevelt
A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Roosevelt was president from 1901 to 1909. He signed legislation establishing five new national parks -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906. It 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. -
Dollar diplomacy
Dollar diplomacy started during President William Howard Taft's term. The Dollar diplomacy was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913.The Federal Reserve Act was a U.S. legislation that created the current Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability in the U.S. -
16th Amendment
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17th Amendment
The 17th amendment states that The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. -
18th amendment
This amendment was what we know now a prohibition. This amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States -
19th amendment
This amendment caused a lot of uproar in the 20th century. This amendment provides men and women with equal voting rights. -
Suffrage
Suffrage often refers to voting. Such as women suffrage. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win certain voting rights. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was named for a Wyoming rock formation resembling a teapot. The scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922 -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer whose work as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials earned him a place in American legal history. -
Immigration & the American Dream
The concept of the American Dream was created by historian James Truslow Adams.The American Dream was an opportunity for Immigrants. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American writer who wrote hundreds of books and other works in different genres. Sinclair's work was well known and very popular in the beginning of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
