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Andrew Carnegie
Was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Jane Addams
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Teddy Roosevelt
With the assassination of President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt not quite 43 became the 26th and youngest President in the Nation's history. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements. -
Upton Sinclair
Was born in Maryland in 1878. His involvement with socialism led to a writing assignment about the plight of workers in the meatpacking industry. Although many of his later works and bids for political office were unsuccessful and Sinclair earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1943 for Dragon's Teeth and he died in New Jersey in 1968. -
Susan B. Anthony
Because she was a woman she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Stanton and led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852. In 1900 Anthony persuaded the University of Rochester to admit women. -
Tea Plot Dome Scandal
Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922. -
Federal Reserve Act
is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System the central banking system of the United States. -
William Jennings Bryan
was an American orator and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic party. -
Urbanization & Industrialization
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Immigration
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16th Amendments
The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
18th Amendments
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Homestead Act
In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
The Dawes Act
American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Haymarket Riot
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Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure food and drug act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant and congress in the 20th century led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
Indian Removal
The United States government in the 19th century whereby Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River. -
Klondike Gold Rush
was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Suffrage
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Nativism
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Social Gospel
Protestant movement that was most prominent in the early 20th-century United States and Canada. -
Manifest Destiny
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Muckraker
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17th Amendments
To the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
19th Amendments
At all time the U.S. was founded its female citizens diid not share all of the same rights as men including the right to vote.