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political Machines
organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. -
Recall
s a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended. -
Susan B. Anthony
as an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement -
Monroe Doctrine
a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe , 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. -
Andrew Carnegie
He was a Scottish-American industrialist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century -
Industrialization
is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society -
Manifest Destiny
doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitably -
Nativism
is the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. However, this is currently more commonly described as an anti-immigrant position -
Eugene V. Debs
as an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States -
Bessemer process
was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. -
Clarence Darrow
as an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent -
Theodore Roosevelt
was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President of the United States -
Jane Addams
known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
William Jennings Bryan
an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party -
homestead Act
encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing -
Ida B. Wells
was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Wikipedia -
Robber baron's(Capital of Industry)
a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich -
Upton SinClair
was an American writer who wrote nearly one hundred books and other works in several genres. -
Urbanization
the process where an increasing percentage of a population lives in cities and suburbs -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers -
Haymarket Riot
affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration -
Dawes Act
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians -
progressivism
Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform. -
populism
is a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite. -
Klondike Gold Rush
as a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
Initiative and Referendum
is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal -
Yellow Journalism
The newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst are both attired -
The Gilded age
United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. -
Immigration and the American Dream
simple idea that promises success to all who reside and work hard in the land of the free and home of the brave. We as Americans pride ourselves on the notion of living in a country built by immigrants who came here looking for social, political, and religious liberty. However, while immigrants may have built the nation centuries ago, the United States has a history of opposition towards newcomers. -
pure food and Drug 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. -
Muckraker
tne who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders -
pure food and drug act
or 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. -
16ht Amendments
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 -
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. -
Federal Reserve Act
the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes -
17th amendment
to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
18th Amendment
which prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States; it would go into effect the following January -
19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Tea pot dome scandal
was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
Social Gospel
Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century.
