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Immigration and The american dream
the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. -
Social Gospel
A Christian intellectual movement -
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 businesses -
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish American industialist who led the enormous expansion of the american steel industry in the Late 19th Century. -
Susan B. Anthony
An American social reformer and feminist who played a very important role in the Women's Suffrrage movement. -
Indian Removal
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. -
Eugene V. Debs
An american union leader who was one of the founding members of the industrial workers of the world. -
Clarence Darrow
American Lawyer, leading member of the American civil liberties union and prominent advocate for georgist economic reform . -
Clarence Darrow
Leading member of the america civil liberties union. -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
William Jennings Bryan
Force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party. -
Jane Addams
A prioneer American settlement activist/ reformer, and leader in women's suffrage. -
Homestead act
Made public lands in the west available to settlers without payment. -
Homestead Act
a special act of Congress that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms. -
Ida B. Wells
Early leader in the civil rights movement -
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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. -
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populism and progressivism
Progressivism s based on the idea of progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition.
populism is a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite. -
Civil Service Reform
refers to movements for the improvement of the civil service in methods of appointment, rules of conduct. -
Haymarket Riot
a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
The Haymarket Riot was viewed a setback for the organized labor movement in America, which was fighting for such rights as the eight-hour workday. -
The 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
The Klondike Gold Rush was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting in the Klondike near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered. -
Muckraker
to search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business.
The term muckraker is closely associated with reform-oriented journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United State -
Urbanization and Industrialization
Urbanization is the process where an increasing percentage of a population lives in cities and suburbs. This process is often linked to industrialization and modernization, as large numbers of people leave farms to work and live in cities. -
Third Parties politics
The term third party is used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties -
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Teddy Roosevelt
An American statesman, Author, and soldier who served as a president of the United States. -
Pure food and Drug Act
An Act for 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. -
16th Amendment
Allows Federal government to collect an income tax from all Americans. -
17th Amendement
Senate of U.S should be composed of two senators from each state elected by the people for 6 years and each senator should have one vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the United States. -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcoholic bevrages in the U.S. -
suffrage
he right to vote, especially in a political election.
a vote given in favor of a proposed measure, candidate, or the like. -
19th Amendment
Forbids voting rights dicriminations anywhere in the U.S based on sex. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration.
