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Bessemer Process
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. -
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 Amendement
The prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol. -
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." -
Industrialization
A period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. -
Monroe Doctrine
United States policy of opposing European colonialism in The Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any independent state in North or South America would be viewed as "the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States." -
Nativism
A policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. -
Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands. -
Manifest destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Susan B Anthony
Social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Jane Addams
A very smart woman who was a social worker and or activist for the women rights. She helped lead woman suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
Helped spread out westward expansion for migrations. Providing land for 160 settlers at the time. -
The Gilded Age
he early half of the Gilded Age roughly coincided with the middle portion of the Victorian era in Britain and in France. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
Haymarket Riot
The after math of the haymarket affair bombing that took place in haymarket square in chicago. -
Dawes Act
Was an act to get Native Americans to basically act like white folk. Trying to make them adapt to certain land farm. Be more civil than "savages" -
Andrew Carnegie
Help lead an enormous expansion in America. The industry helped expand all the way into the early 19th century. -
William Jennings Bryan
Made the "Cross of Gold speech" which attacked the gold standard to eastern moneyed interests. In a repudiation of incumbent President Grover Cleveland and his conservative Bourbon Democrats. The Democratic convention nominated Bryan for president. -
Progressivism
A term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America. -
Populism
The People's party, more commonly known as the Populist party, was organized in St. Louis in 1892. Against the entrenched interests of railroads, bankers, processers, corporations, and the politicians in league with such interests. -
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. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896. -
Yellow Journalism
Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. -
Iniative & Referendum
Three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. Aka Impeach Trump :) -
Political Machines
A political machine is a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. -
Eugene V Debs
He was the founder of "socialist party of america." He also helped labor organize as he was a union organizer that helped tribute to the american expansion. -
Recall
A recall election (also called a recall referendum or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote. -
Robber Barons
A metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt became the youngest man to assume the U.S. presidency after President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. He was later elected for a second term. -
Pure Food & Drug Act
Preventing certain food sells or even kinda protesting against certain brands. Only to products that were misbranded or poisonous for example. -
Muckraker
Meaning "one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," popularized 1906 in speech by President Theodore Roosevelt. -
Dollar Diplomacy
A form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power. Mainly during President William Howard Taft's term. -
Federal Reserve Act
A created establishment as the center bank of america. Provided the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Ida B Wells
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Social Gospel
Religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He defended high-profile clients in many famous trials including teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks. -
Immigration & the American Dream
Its why immigrants came to the US. To have a choice and freedom and to be exposed to a lot more opportunities then back their original country. -
Upton Sinclair
American writer who wrote nearly one hundred books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. -
Urbanization
Process of making an area more urban and modern to the current day and age. Also expanding ways well.
