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Manifest Destiny
doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
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Immigration and the American Dream
The United States offers a less hierarchical society that provides more opportunity than many other countries, while allowing immigrants to assume a fully American identity. -
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Susan B Anthony
American social reformer and feminist activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. -
Monroe Doctorine
a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
Indian Removal
authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Was among the the most wealthiest and famous industrialist of his day. He helped discovered Insulin and help dismantle nuclear weapons.“To try to make the world in some way better than you found it is to have a noble motive in life.” -
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Industrilization
is the process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods. Individual manual labor is often replaced by mechanized mass production, and craftsmen are replaced by assembly lines. -
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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. -
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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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Robber Barons
an unscrupulous plutocrat, especially an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means. -
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Bessemer Process
a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort -
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Eugene V Debs
Five time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. -
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Clarence Darrow
American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
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William Jennings Bryan
American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States. -
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Jane Addams
worked to help the poor and to stop the use of children as industrial laborers. She ran Hull House in Chicago, a center which helped immigrants in particular. Second women to win Noble peace prize. -
Homestead Act
the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
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Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
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The Gilded Age
A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
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Upton Sinclair Jr
Was an American writer of nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. -
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Populism and Progressivism
Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers -
Dawes Act
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
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Yellow Journalism
journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
are three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
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Muskraker
Name given to US journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in politics and business in the early 20th century. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An act for 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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Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
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Urbanization
the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban. -
17th amendment
to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states -
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 (now commonly known as the U.S. Dollar) -
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Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
18th amendment
effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
19th amendment
to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. -
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Tea Pot Dome Scandel
was a bribery incident that took place in the United States