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Tammany Hall
As a political organization. Tammany Hall was the Democratic headquarters in New York City and it was also Boss Tweed's office.The Tammany Society of New York City was founded in 1786 as a fraternal organization whose primary activities were social. It was a product of the madness of 19th Century New York – a time of great wealth and extreme poverty, of high aspirations and hard conditions. -
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Industrialism
The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britin. Machines that revolutionzed the way textiles were produced and British workers were coming to America to work. British manufactured goods such as Textiles guns, tools, shoes. The industry became popular in the North East region. Immigration, a population shift from rural to urban areas, and the expansion of the railroads led to the development of a national market for finished goods. The oast of living inflamed. -
Robber Barons
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often referred to as the time of the "robber barons." True robber barons, such as Governor Leland Stanford, Henry Villard, Grenville Dodge, and many others in the railroad industry. eing granted tens of millions of acres of land, they wasted tens of millions of dollars. -
Manifest Destiny
The term, "Manifest Destiny," appears for the first time in the expansionist magazine the Democratic Review, in an article by the editor, John OíSullivan. It expressed the belief that it was Anglo-Saxon Americans' providential mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the breadth of North America. This expansion would involve not merely territorial aggrandizement but the progress of liberty and individual economic opportunity as well. -
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Imperialism
in the 1890s, the United States began to practice some of the same imperialistic policies that it had previously criticized major European powers for. American imperialistic impulses flourished during the Spanish-American War. it took three years for American forces to defeat Filipino rebels -
Abraham Lincon
Aberham Lincoln was best known for his apperal and his distinct look. He was a huge part of American history, in changing how we look at America today. He only spent one term in the House of Represenitives. By the 1850s, the railroad industry was moving west and Illinois found itself becoming a major hub for various companies. Abraham Lincoln served as a lobbyist for the Illinois Central Railroad as its company attorney. A big change in history and he change it all. -
Archaduke Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand was an Archduke of Austria-Este. Franz Ferdinand was third in line to the thrown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire upon his birth. He eloped with Countess Sophie Chotek in 1900, but this marriage was considered unequal and they were forced to renounce rights of rank and succession for their three children. As the car came abreast he drew his automatic pistol from his coat and fired two shots. The first struck his wife, she died instantly and the second bullet killed him. -
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer, a 19th century philosopher, promoted the idea of Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism is an application of the theory of natural selection to social, political, and economic issues. This theory was used to promote the idea that the white European race was superior to others, and therefore, destined to rule over them. -
Upton Sinclair
He was a novilest and a social crusade from California. He is best known for his book the "The Jungle". This book is about food and drug addiction He has a wide variaty of interset. He was almost nominated to be Govener of California, and would have won the nomination if did not make two political errors. -
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Muckrakers
muckrakers, name applied to American journalists, novelists, and critics who in the first decade of the 20th cent. attempted to expose the abuses of business and the corruption in politics. Theodore Roosevelt's speech in 1906, agreed with many of the charges of the muckrakers but asserted that some of their methods were sensational and irresponsible. Historians agree that if it had not been for the revelations of the muckrakers the Progressive movement wouldn't have recived support. -
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Progressive Era
The Progressive Era, which lasted from the 1890s to the 1920s, was an age of reform, the nation’s response to the industrial revolution. That was the hopeful time. Although Labor violence, industrial accidents, foreign intrigues and cultural disturbances were felt by much of the American population, and big businesses still seemed to be controlling people's lives. -
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Spanish-American War
On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. As a result Spain lost its control over the remains of its overseas empire -- Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines Islands, Guam, and other islands. The war had cost the United States $250 million and 3,000 lives, of whom 90% had perished from infectious diseases. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was 43 when he became President. He was a sickly child with very welthy parents. He overcame his sickness and gained his strength both physical and mentaly. Roosevelt graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1880. He studied Law shortly at Columbia University. In 1884, because of ill health and the death of his wife, Roosevelt abandoned his political work for some time, and he came back in 1889. in 1919, at the age of sixty, he died in his sleep. -
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson is a Democrat and was running again William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. He is a teacher and reforming governer of New Jersey. He began to prevent big manufactures from charging unfairly high prices. He passed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. Wilson tried to supervise banks, as a result intest rates for loans could fluctuate wildly and few bankers had a major control or national states. His work at Princeton continues on to his presidentcy. -
Alied Powers
World War One technically began as a strictly European conflict with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against the Kingdom of Serbia on July 28th, 1914. This brought France into war against Germany on August 3rd. These first three "Allied Powers", the empires of Russia, France and Britain, were known as the "Triple Entente", this name deriving from the "Entente Cordiale" agreement between Great Britain and France. -
Nationalism
The spirit of nationalism first began to penetrate the European world back during the late-Middle Ages. As the feudal system began to decline, a new form of political organization began to appear: the nation state. Then, during the 19th century, the spirit of nationalism swept across Europe like wildfire. At the same time, nationalism filled many of the spiritual needs of the age. -
Militarism
By 1914, most governments were under pressure from their militaries to act more precipitously than the heads of state thought advisable. Hence, diplomatic machinery found itself powerless to find a solution to the crisis of 1914. The armies of both France and Germany had more than doubled between 1870 and 1914 and there was fierce competition between Britain and Germany for mastery of the seas. -
Central Powers
The Central Powers Alliance was described from the German and Austrian side as a "Bund", an association. Austria-Hungary precipitated World War 1 and was the first to go to war on July 28th, 1914 with its declaration against the Kingdom of Serbia. The Central Powers reached what was to be their full strength on October 14, 1915 with Bulgaria's opportunistic entry into the war against Serbia as massed German and Austro-Hungarian armies attacked from the north. -
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World War 1
World War I was an extremely bloody war that engulfed Europe from 1914 to 1918. The spark that started World War I was the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The four years of the Great War as it was then known saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. By the time World War I ended in the defeat of the Central Powers in November 1918, more than 9 million soldiers had been killed and 21 and many wounded. -
Zimmermann Note
This was made in frustration in the British Navel blocade, in Febuary Germany broke the pledge, and the note was made. In January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German. -
Treaty of Versailles
This was a peace settlement that was signed after World War 1. This was signed in a place near Paris. This was done between German allies. The three most important people in this decision where David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson. This was lead by many Germans. -
Isolationism
After World War I the US attempted to become less involved in world affairs. The US refused to join the League of Nations. Although President Wilson pushed hard for US membership, opposition in the US Senate was significant. Americans, after learning of the destruction and cost of World War I, did not want the United States to become entangled in another European conflict which could lead to another devastating war. -
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Prohibition
Prohibition was a period of nearly fourteen years of U.S. history in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor was made illegal. It led to the first and only time an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was repealed. It was a time characterized by speakeasies, glamor, and gangsters and a period of time in which even the average citizen broke the law. The result of a widespread temperance movement during the first decade of the 20th century, Prohibition was difficult to enforce. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was one of numerous scandals that plagued the administration of President Warren G. Harding (1921–1923). In later years, “Teapot Dome” became part of the language as a synonym for corruption and bribery in government. At the center of the Teapot Dome Scandal was Albert Fall, a colorful Kentuckian who had worked as a lumberjack, miner, and U.S. marshal. He was a U.S. senator when Harding joined the Senate in 1915, and soon the two became friends and poker buddies. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, 1930, passed by the U.S. Congress; it brought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the United States. Despite wide protest, the tariff act, called the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act because of its joint sponsorship by Representative Willis C. Hawley and Senator Reed Smoot, both Republicans, was signed (June, 1930) by President Hoover. The act brought retaliatory tariff acts from foreign countries, U.S. foreign trade suffered a sharp decline.
