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Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act is a law that was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
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 (Republican Party and Democratic Party). The term can also refer to independent politicians not affiliated with any party at all and to write-in candidates. -
Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. started in the 1840s -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. Rise of the Know-Nothing Party 1 Jan 1850 -
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Political Machines
is a political 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. Political party machines dominated political life in most American cities in the decades between the Civil War (1861-1865) and the Great Depression (1930s). -
Homestead act
The first of the acts, the Homestead Act of 1862, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. -
Susan B Anthony
Born on February 15, 1820, Susan B. Anthony was raised in a Quaker household and went on to work as a teacher before becoming a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement. She partnered with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and would eventually lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony and Stanton created and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication that lobbied for women's rights in 1868. -
The Gilded Age
which spanned the final three decades of the nineteenth century, was one of the most dynamic, contentious, and volatile periods in American history. It all atarted when grant was elected president in 1868 -
Andrew Carnegie
33-year-old Andrew Carnegie wrote himself a note that questioned his life as a businessman, worrying about falling into the trap of idolizing money. In this note, Carnegie decided that he would work for two more years and then resign from business forever. He was determined to get an education at Oxford, something he felt he was lacking. He would live on an annual investment income of $50,000 and donate the surplus. -
Muckraker
The term muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption.Tweed Escapes Prison. Boss Tweed escapes from debtor's prison while making one of his allowed daily visits to his family. -
Immigration
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Civil service reform
is a federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit." -
The Dawes Act Haymarket Riot
Police fire on a group of strikers, killing four and wounding others. Three days later at a rally in Haymarket Square organized by the Knights of Labor, an unknown person throws a bomb into a group of policeman, killing several and causing general mayhem that results in the deaths of more strikers. -
Ida B. Wells
A daughter of slaves, Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. A journalist, Wells led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s, and went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. She died in 1931 in Chicago, Illinois. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, the Canadian Gold Rush, and the Last Great Gold Rush, was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
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Williams Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States. became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. -
Teddy Rosevelt
The first inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt as the 26th President of the United States, took place on September 14, 1901 upon the assassination of President William McKinley, in Buffalo, New York. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
The "initiative process" is a citizen or group of citizens who want to propose a law to the people and organize, draft (write) the proposed law, then circulate petitions to be signed to get the law placed on the ballot in the upcoming election. Referendum (plural: referenda) is where the legislature (state, usually) votes on a bill, but is to chicken to send the bill to the governor to sign (maybe they think the Governor will veto it and don't want to risk that) will instead place the bill. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). -
The pure food and drug act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
From 1909 to 1913, President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy.” -
17th Amendment
Passed in 1912, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures. -
Populism and progressivism
1912 Taft and Roosevelt split Republican Party Woodrow Wilson is elected president -
Clarence Darrow
was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks (1924) 1912 was his firt trial. -
Federal reserve act
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
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages -
suffrage
the right to vote in political elections. it was passed for women in 1919 -
19th Amendment
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. -
The teapot dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding on March 4, 1921 -
eugine v debbs
Eugene V. Debs, in full Eugene Victor Debs (born November 5, 1855, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.—died October 20, 1926, Elmhurst, Illinois), labour organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920. -
Social Gospel
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Jane Addams
was named a co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. -
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.
