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populism and progressivism
The populist movement started during the 1880's. Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. Farmers become united to protect their interests. They even created a major political party. -
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan was the part of the Woman's Rights Activist. She was also an American social reformer. She collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. -
Monroe Doctrine
U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
Indian Removal
the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Andre was in Scottish Industrialist. He led the American Steel Industry in the late 19th century. He worked on several railroad jobs be for he ran the Carnegie Steel Corporation. -
Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Industrialization
Process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods. -
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Eugene V. Debs
Eugene was an American Union Leader and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers. He was the 5 time candidate of the Socialist Party Of America for the President of the United States. -
Bessemer Process
a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retor -
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence was an American Lawyer. He was also the leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He also was part of the Georgist economic reform. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore was a American statesman and a soldier naturalist. He was also president from 1901-1909. When he was a leader of the Republican Party he became a driving force for the progressive Era. -
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William Jenning Bryan
William was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. He was the populist wing of the Democratic Party. He was the 3 time Party nominee from President Of the United States. -
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Jane Addams
Jade was a pioneer American seattlement activist. She was also a social worker. She was the leader in the women's suffrage and world peace. She created the first full house. -
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Ida B. Wells
Ida was an American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
The Glided Age
time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial mis dealings and many wealthy people lived very fancy lives. -
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Upton Sinclair Jr.
Upton was an American author who wrote about 100 books. He had won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. He wrote books about plight workers in meatpacking industry's. Which led him to his best-selling novel The Jungle (1906) -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Haymarket Riot
was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
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
migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Yellow Journalism
cartoon about Spanish–American War of 1898, Independence Seaport Museum. The newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst are both attired as the Yellow Kid comics character of the time, and are competitively claiming ownership of the war. -
Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
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. -
Muckracker
one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders -
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. -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
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, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes -
18th Amendment
the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
19th Amendment
he United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex -
TeaPot 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 Machine
organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Urbanization
When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban. -
Robber Baron
an unscrupulous plutocrat, especially an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means.