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Susan B. Anthony
An American social reformer
She is also a women's rights advocate who played a pivotal role in the woman's suffrage movement. -
Monroe Doctrine
Principle of US policy.
External powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
Indian Removal
Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi river. -
Andrew Carnegie
A Scottish American industrialist.
He led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry. -
Manifest Destiny
The expansion of the US through the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Eugene V. Debbs
An American union leader.
One of the founding members of the industrial workers.
He was also a five time candidate of the socialist party of America. -
Clarence Darrow
An American lawyer.
Leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
Theodore Roosevelt
26th US President (1901-1909)
An American statesman, author, explorer, solider, naturalist and reformer. -
Wiliam Jennings Bryan
An American orator and politician -
Jane Addams
A pioneer American
Settlement activist -
Homestead Act
President Abraham Lincoln signed it.
It provided 160 acres of public land to Western Migrators.
Homesteaders were required to complete five years of continuous residence before owning land. -
Ida B. Wells
An African American journalist, newspaper editor, sociologist.
A leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
The Gilded Age
Construction of railroads.
Rapid industrialization.
Innovations in science and technology.
Rise of big business. -
Upton Sinclair
An American writer.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for comedy in 1943. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The first law restricting immigration into the United states.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed by congress and signed by president Chester A. Arthur.
This act provided an absolute 10yrs on Chinese labor immigration. -
Haymarket Riot
Also known as the Haymarket Massacre.
It was the after math of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration. -
Dawes Act
It authorized the president to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual indians. -
Populism & Progressivism
Populism:
A belief in the power of regular people, and to have controlled rights over the government.
Progressivism:
A social movement of economic problems, and rapid industrialization. -
Klondike Gold Rush
A migration of 100,000 people that traveled into north western Canada. -
Pure Food and Drug Riot
A law passed to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in the interstate trade. -
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have the power to collect taxes on incomes. -
17th Amendment
The election of the United States Senators by the people of the states. -
Federal Reserve Act
The act on 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. -
18th Amendment
Establishes the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegally. -
19th Amendment
Rights for women's to vote -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Secretary of the interior (Albert Fall) leased government land in California and at Teapot Dome, Wyoming to 2 oil executives Fall became the first Cabinet official to be sent to prison.
Involved national security, big oil companies,bribery and corporations at the the highest levels of government. -
Immigration & the American Dream
Democracy, Liberty, Rights, Opportunity, and equality. -
Urbanization
Towns and cities become much larger as people began to live and work in central areas. -
Political Machines
An organization in which an authoritative boss.
Small groups commands the support of a corps of supporters. -
Dollar Dipomacy
A country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
Yellow Journalism
Sensationalism and crude exaggerations. -
Social Gospel
A movement led by a group of liberal protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration. -
Muckraker
Gross things -
Nativism
Policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against immigrants. -
Robber Barons (Captains of Industry)
American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich. -
Initative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative:
The ability to assess and initiate things independently.
Referendum:
A vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.
Recall:
Voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before their term ends. -
Bessemer Process
The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open heart furnace. -
Industrialization
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.