Key Terms #3

  • Urbanization

    This term references to rural to urban areas and The United stated predicted that half of the world's population would live at the end of 2008.
  • Suffrage

    Was A Franchise the right to vote in public,political elections and was known as Candidate Eligibility. And was a continuum of qualification of the citizens depended on the government.
  • Industialization

    Industialization
    Was Period of Social and economic change that transformed a human group from a agrarian society to a industrial society. This was all started with the industrial revolution,which took place in the mid 18th century to the early 19th century in certain areas of Europe and North America.
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    Was social reformer and Women's rights Activists and was a great part of the Women's Suffrage Movement. In 1856 she founded a group called the American Anti-Slavery Society. She also created the International Council Of Women and also part of the American Women's Suffrage Association.
  • Nativism

    Usually nativism has become a great general term for Opposition to immigration. This type of Opposition oppose a group called Immigration Restriction League.
  • Indian Removal

    Policy In The US government in the 19th century which by Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands In The Eastern US to the lands of the west Mississippi River,thereafter was known to be an Indian Territory.
  • Third Parties politics

    The third political parties started in 1854,which was characterized as the emergence of the anti-slavery Republican and Libertian and Green Party.
  • Homestead Act

    Acts that gave a some sort of application ownership to land, or typically called"Homestead" at no cost. This Acted opened up millions of acres. In more then 270 million acres of public land nearly was given away to 1.6 million homesteaders.
  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age
    The Factories started to build in the union to defeat the Confederacy were shut down at war's end. Was An Era which satirized huge serious social problems masked by thin gold gilding.
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny
    This event took place on the 19th century and it was held widely belief in the U.S. that its settlers were Destined to Expand Across North America.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    Was responsible for leading the American Steel Industry and sold it to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 Million.
  • Civil Service Reform

    This event was a major issue in the 19th and early 20th century of the U.S. And also was proponents denounced the distribution of government offices "Spoils" the winners of the elections to their supporters as corrupt and Inefficient.
  • Eugene V. Debbs

    Eugene V. Debbs
    Debs was part of the American Railway Union and was a famous for finding the First Nation's Industrial Unions.
  • Haymarket Riot

    Haymarket Riot
    Was an aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on a Tuesday of May 4th,1886 in Haymarket Square in Chicago.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    It was adopted by Congress in 1887 and it was authorized by President of The U.S. to survey American Indian tribal and divide into allotments individual indians. Its objective was to lift Native Americans out of poverty,to stimulate assimilation of them into Mainstream society. It also was to transfer lands under indian control to white settlers.
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    Was well known as the "mother" of the social work and was a worldwide re-known American Pioneer of The Settlement of Activists. Was Part of leading Women's Suffrage and World Peace and also Socialists. Also a Settlement known as Chicago's Hull House Which is well famous known settlements in America.
  • Populism & Progressivism

    The cause for Progressivism was the Post-American Civil War the alienation of professionals. And Populism was the capitalism to reform all radicals looking ahead or forward or "Privileged Elites."
  • William Jennings Bryan

    Was well known to be the 41st U.S. Secretary Of State and was a politician and orator from Nebraska. In the beginning of 1896 he emerged as dominant figure of the Democratic Party. He was given the name "The Great Commoner", For his great wisdom to the common people.
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Were Prospectors of 100,00 Migrating along the Klondike Region of the Yukon In North Western Canada between 1896 and 1899.
  • Iniatiative and Referendum

    Iniatiative and Referendum
    Are the 2 powers of the voting being enabled and by petitioners,to purpose and repeal legislation or remove an elected official from office.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines
    Was A Political Organization, in which political boss commanded the support of the a corps of supporters and businesses.
  • Muckracker

    Muckracker
    Used In the Progressive Era to characterized reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Roosevelt Served as the 26th President for the U.S. and was historical figure of the Progressive Era from 1901 to 1909.
  • Pure Food And Drug Act

    Was a consumer protection law that was enacted in the 20th century and lead to the creation Food And Drug Administration.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells
    Well famously known to be a journalist,Suffragist,Socialist, an was key early leader of The Civil Rights Movement. She Was Also one of the key founders Of (NAACP) in 1909. she started lynching in 1890's and showed lynching to be for a way of punish to black people competing with the whites.
  • 16th Amendments

    16th Amendments
    A Document that allowed congress to levy an Income Tax basically appointing it to the states. It gave the exemption of directional taxes,after the income taxes on rent,dividends that were rule in the court case: Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. which happened in 1895. This Amendment was adopted to the Constitution of The U.S. by Feb.3,1913
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment
    This amendment established the popular vote for The U.S. Senate by people's of the states. Fills the vacancies of the senate within the states. This amendment was tooken to action by the year 1914 national wide of the presidential election in may of that year.
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Was An American Form Policy to further its aims to towards Latin America and Asia. Though, it guaranteed use of its economic power made to foreign countries.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    Was a Law that created and established The Federal Reserve System.also it created the central banking system of the United States. The Law Was signed by President Woodrow Wilson into congress to issue Federal Reserve Notes.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair
    Was an American writer through his times lived and wrote nearly hundred books. Though, his well known work down came in the price of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. He also known for J.P. Morgan.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment
    Was the prohibition of beverages being transported,produced,sold through private possession of illegal temptation. This Amendment was proposed on August 1,1917. And It Was finally Adopted On January 16th,1919
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow
    Was an American Lawyer,also was part of being a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Was Also a prominent figure in For Georgist Economic Reform. Was Called "The Sophisticated Country Lawyer."
  • Immigration & The American Dream

    The dream of that land in which should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability of achievement. Thus, immigration happened during the colonial era of 1880 to 1920s. and The First ever Immigration and The American Dream happened when the pilgrims migrated to the United States in seek of a greater economic opportunity and religious freedoms.
  • 19th Amendments

    19th Amendments
    Was Documented stating that federal and states government from letting any citizen the right to vote based on sex. This Document was adopted to the U.S. Constitution by August 20th,1920. This Document gave the Citizen of based on sex to vote.
  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Was an incident that took place between this two dates in the US from1921 to 1922. Secretary of the interior had leased some Navy pretroleum in the reserve of Teapot Dome Wyoming and tow other places in California which created tension by the investigation of the senator Thomas J. Walsh.