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Susan B. Anthony
key leader of woman suffrage movement, social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the national woman suffrage assosiation. -
Monroe Doctrine
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Indian Removal
While Indian removal was, supposed to be voluntary, in practice great pressure was put on American Indian leaders to sign removal treaties. Most observers, whether they were in favor of the Indian removal policy or not, realized that the passage of the act meant the inevitable removal of most Indians from the states. Some Native American leaders who had previously resisted removal now began to reconsider their positions, especially after Jackson's landslide re-election in 1832. -
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Nativism
A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones. During the 1800's many Americans favored their own kin far more than that of the Irish and other European immigrants arriving in the east and the Chinese and other Asian immigrants in the west. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist, businessman who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry. He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era. -
Manifest Destiny
A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific. -
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Eugene V. Debs
Debs was a labor leader who helped organize the American Railway Union, which contained about 150,00 members. As a result of the Pullman strike Debs was sentenced to six monthes imprisonment. He was also a member of the Socialist party and he ran for president. Debs recieved 900,672 votes. He was also convicted under the Espionage Act in 1918 and was sent to spend tens years in a federal penitentiary. -
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Clarence Darrow
famed criminal lawyer; worked in "Monkey Trial"; made William Jennings Bryan appear foolish -
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Theodore Roosevelt
was assistant naval secretary who called for Dewey to begin the Spanish-American war
became president after McKinley even though he lost the election; McKinley was killed after scarcely serving another six months (murdered by deranged anarchist in Buffalo, New York)
worked to build a canal across the central american isthmus (Panama Canal)
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William Jennings Bryan
an ardent Presbyterian Fundamentalist; joined the prosecution against John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" of 1925; took the stand as an expert on the Bible, he was made to appear foolish by criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow; five days after trial, he died of a stroke, probably from heat and stress -
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Jane Addams
was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
law that provided 160 acres of Western land to any citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for five years. This law gave land that was previously reserved by treaty for nomadic Native Americans to whites as private property. -
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Ida B. Wells
African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores -
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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age is the time period after the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It was a time where people showed their wealth and upperclass. More towns and businesses evolved from this. A diverse working class emerged from having more jobs. "Robber barons" came about which were people who over use their power to make financial decisions. A modern industrial economy was also created. -
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was the writer of the book, The Jungle, that was published in 1906. His book told of the conditions of workers in large food canning factories. His book told of filth, disease, and illventilation of various Chicago slaughterhouses. His book led to investigations on Chicago slaughterhouses and a newly found, though temporary discust towards meats. Sinclair's book also led to the Meat Inspection Act of 1906. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a law in the United States passed in 1882 that banned chinese immigration for 10 years. Because gold was harder and harder to find in the later 1800s, foreign immigration was beginning to be looked down upon. The competition angered the United States citizens. The Act didn't allow any further asian immigration and Asians could not become US citizens. -
Haymarket Riot
It began as a rally in support of striking workers when a person in the crowed threw a bomb as the police. The bomb blast and the gunfire that followed resulted in the deaths of eight police officers and an unknown number other people. After the event eight anarchists were tried for murder. Four were put to death, and one committed suicide in prison. this event was a major example of violence that can take place at strikes -
Dawes Act
An act that removed Indian land from tribal possession, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families. Designed to break tribal mentalities and promote individualism. -
Klondike Gold Rush
began with the discovery by George Carmack on August 16, 1896 in Rabbit Creek part of the Klondike River, a tributary of the Yukon River which flowed through Alaska and the Yukon Territory in in north-western Canada. -
Yellow Journalism
Journalism that distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers. This made the newspapers sell, because of how they stretched the truth about the unfairness to the civilians in Cuba which made the US citizens want to help the Cubans against the Spanish. This was a cause of the Spanish-American war. -
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. The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron. -
Robber Barons
This is a person who has helped the country economically. By contributing, they have made more jobs, increased products, or expansion of markets. -
Immigration & the American Dream
Immigrants is associate the American dream with opportunity, a good job and home ownership. -
Urbanization
is the process where an increasing percentage of a population lives in cities and suburbs. This process is often linked to industrialization and modernization, as large numbers of people leave farms to work and live in cities. ... Rural-urban migration continued to spread globally. -
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. -
Political Machines
a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state -
Industrialization
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. -
Initiative & Referendum
This stated that voters could directly propose legislation themselves; thus allowing them to pass by the big business part of the law. This would eliminate "boss bought" legislatures and end corruption of big business.
This proposed that laws were placed on the ballot for final approval by the people.This "recall" would allow voters to have more control and say on issues of the law, and take some matters out of the hands of unfaithful, sometimes business bought officials. -
Social Gospel
Arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers of the Protestant branch of Catholicism began to bring salvation and good workings together. In order to honor god it was believed that people should put aside there selfish needs to help the less fortunate. -
Recall
The recall was a system that allowed voters to remove unreliable elected officials from office. Especially those who were known to except bribes from bosses or lobbyists. The recall was a goal of progressive reformers. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
a law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade. -
Muckraker
one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders -
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Dollar Diplomacy
Foreign Policy idea by Taft to make countries dependant on the U.S. by encouraging U.S. bankers and businesses to invest in Latin America. This made the U.S. more powerful, and made Latin America dependent economically on the U.S. -
Federal Reserve Act
Was an act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and it was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. Congress decided in the Federal Reserve Act that all nationally chartered banks were required to become members of the Federal Reserve System. It was used as an act to creat a system of national banks to stablize and parshly monator the economy -
Progressivism
is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America. -
19th Amendment
the right for women to vote. -
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
This scandal was started when Albert B. Fall, secretary of the interior, had his fellow cabinent member Edwin Denby, secretary of the navy, give control of the naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, Califorina to him. Fall then proceeded to lease the lands to Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny after reciving a bribe of $100,000 from Doheny and about 300,000 from Sinclair. -
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. -
18th 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. -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
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. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.