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Socai Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. -
Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
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Susan B. Anthony
An American social reformer and feminist activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement -
Monroe Doctrine
Declared against foreign colonization, or intervention in the Americas, and the intention of the United States to remain neutral in European wars. -
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Andrew Carnegie
A Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century -
Nativism
The idea of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Indian Removal
A policy of the United States government in the 19th century whereby Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands -
Yellow Journalism
journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. -
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Clarence Darrow
An American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
An American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
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William Jennings Bryan
An American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States. -
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Jane Addams
A pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
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Ida B. Wells
An African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
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Upton Sinclair
Wrote "The Jungle" -
Robber Barons (captains of industry)
An unscrupulous plutocrat, especially an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
A United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur that restricted Chinese -
The Gilded Age
A time in history that is remembered fondly, but had many problems -
Haymarket Riot
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. -
Klondike Gold Rush
A migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada in the search of gold -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Made food and medicines legitimate, so people couldn't sell fake "medicine" or contaminated food -
16th Amendment
Established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
17th Amendment
Established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states -
Federal Reserve Act
An Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol -
19th Amendment
Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
A bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Political Machines
A political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses -
Industrialization
The process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods -
Bessemer Process
A steel-making process -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
Muckraker
Someone who uncovers problems of society -
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Urbanization
a population shift from rural to urban areas
