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Industrialization
Manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines this shifted into powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. -
17th Amendment
Direct Election of U.S. Senators. Americans did not directly vote for senators for the first 125 years of the Federal Government senators would be elected by state legislatures. -
Robber Barons
He was amassed wealth and power during the period of the industrial growth following the American Civil War -
Monroe Doctrine
Created separate spheres of European and American influence. ... The United States would not interfere with current European colonies in the Western Hemisphere. No European nation would be allowed to establish a new colony in the Western Hemisphere. -
Indian Removal
President Andrew Jackson, passed the Indian Removal Act which gave the federal government the power to relocate any Native Americans in the east to territory that was west of the Mississippi River -
Manifest Destiny
American expansion that the US was destined to stretch from coast to coast. This caused the Native American removal and war with Mexico. -
Susan B Anthony
Leaving the Canajoharie Academy in 1849, she soon devoted more of her time to social issues. In 1851, she attended an anti-slavery conference, where she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was inspired to fight for women's rights while campaigning against alcohol. -
Urbanization
Industrial Revolution changed material production, wealth, labor patterns and population distribution.The new industrial labor opportunities caused a population shift from the countryside to the cities.The new factory work led to a need for a strict system of factory discipline. -
Bessemer Process
Helped made stronger rails for constructing the railroads and helped to make stronger metal machines and innovative architectural structures like skyscrapers -
Theodore Roosevelt
New York governor who later became the 26th U.S. president, He is remembered for his foreign policy, corporate reforms and ecological preservation. -
Andrew Carnegie
He worked in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. Carnegie worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before he became a superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859 -
Homestead Act
Opened up settlement in the western US, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. -
The Gilded Age
Rapid economic growth.New products and technologies improved middle-class quality of life.Industrial workers and farmers didn't share in the new prosperity.Gilded Age politicians were largely corrupt and ineffective.Most Americans during the Gilded Age wanted political and social reforms -
Eugene V. Debs
Labor organizer and socialist leader. He entered politics as a Democratic City Clerk in 1879, and in1885 he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with 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. After he was the party’s five presidential elections. Later he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for going against the US in World War I. -
Recall
The contribution of immigrants and their descendents to the growth and industrial transformation of the American workforce in the age of mass immigration -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The statute of 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for ten years. Chinese workers in the country were already discriminated their efforts failed -
Dawes Act
It as broken up land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservations and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on. -
Haymarket Riot
It turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. -
Progressivism
Variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America -
Populism
Supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite -
William Jennings Bryan
In 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated by William McKinley. Bryan lost his bids for the presidency in 1900 and 1908. After helping Woodrow Wilson secure the Democratic presidential nomination for 1912, he served as Wilson’s secretary of state until 1914. He also campaigned for peace, prohibition, suffrage, and criticized the teaching of evolution. -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow Journalism is a term first during the famous newspaper wars between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer II. With so much competition between the newspapers, the news was over-dramatized to fit story ideas that publishers and editors thought would sell the most -
Klondike Gold Rush
The discovery of gold in the Yukon in 1896 led many to the Klondike region This led to the establishment of Dawson City (1896) and subsequently, the Yukon Territory (1898 -
Ida B. Wells
She led a anti-lynching crusade in the 1890s, and went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
Political Machines
Brought new immigrants into mainstream American society In a way they helped the new immigrants -
Social Gospel
Religious movement 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. -
Muckrakers
Theodore Roosevelt, president of the US, nicknamed these investigative journalists muckrakers. A rake was used to dig up filth and muck. -
Nativisim
Preference for established US residents, as opposed to foreigners considered were to be outsiders and the opposition to immigration. The belief towards immigrants based on their national origin, their ethnic background, their race or religion. -
Initiative and Referendum
gives voters the rights to propose laws and vote -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It was to prevent 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. -
Upton Sinclair
He was a American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer, his works reflect socialistic views. He gained publicy in 1906 with his novel "The Jungle", which exposed the deplorable conditions of the U.S. meat-packing industry. It caused a outcry among the people and led to the passing of the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Promote the US commercial interest and economic power by loans made to strategically important foreign countries. -
Jane Addams
She advocated woman’s suffrage because she believed that women’s votes would be the "margin" necessary to pass social legislation -
Federal Reserve Act
To provide the nation with a safer, flexible and more stable monetary and financial system. Over the years its role in banking and the economy has expanded. -
16th Amendments
Income tax allows for the federal government to keep an army, build roads and bridges, enforce laws and carry out other important needs -
18th Amendment
The banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol. With the exception of those used for religious rite -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Government corruption and the scandals out of the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Since then it has sometimes been used to symbolize the power and influence of oil companies -
19th Amendment
Womans right to vote -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was called a "labor lawyer." He also was known for defending teenaged thrill killers Leopold, Loeb, and John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial. -
Immigration And The American Dream
Immigrants is associate the American dream with opportunity, a good job and home ownership
