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Nativism
It was the direct result of written and broken treaties, catastrophic military failures, lack of competitive scientific and technological know-how, and of forced assimilation, the indians were virtually destroyed by European immigration views have a long history. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Indian Removal
It was a 19th century policy of ethnic cleansing by government of the United States to move Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. -
Andrew Carnegie
He was a Scottish America industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the 19th century. -
Suffarage
It is the right to vote gained through the democratic process. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Wonders of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist party of America for President of the United States. -
Clarence Darrow
He was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
Teddy Roosevelt
He was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. -
Jane Addams
She was pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
Homestead Act was several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. -
Ida B. Wells
She was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term was cpined bu Mark Twain which is satirized an era of serious social problems masked bu a think gold gilding. -
Manifest Destiny
It was a widely helf belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Upton Sinclair
He was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle. -
Haymarket Riot
It was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstation on Tuesday May 4th, 1886 at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual indians. -
Klondike Gold Rush
It was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in North Western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Muckraker
It refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continue a tradition of investigation journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by te Federal Government in the twentieth century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
Dollar Diplomacy
It is an effort of the United States particularly over President William Howard Taft to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Social Gospel
It is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
16th Amendment
The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it amond the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
17th Amedment
The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of the United States Senators by popular vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
It is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment to the United States Consitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote the basis of sex. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
It was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 ton 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Immigration and the American Dream
The children from Immigrants are examples of people trying to live the American Dream. -
Urbanization and Industrialization
Urbanization is a word for becoming more like a city. Industrialization is the process in which a society or country transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society one based on the manufacturing of goods and services. -
Civil Service Reform
It refers to movements for the improvement of the civil service in methods of appointment, rules of conduct, ect. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions of the genereal people. Progressivism is a broad philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancement in science technology. -
Political Machines
A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and business. -
Initiative
It means by which a petition signed by a certain minimun number of registered voters can force a public vote. -
Referendum
It is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to vote on a particular proposal. -
Recall
Bringing back into someone's mind. -
Third Party Politics
It is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals.
