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Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by Andrew Jackson. It authorizd the president the ability to grant unsettled land west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian land within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. -
Andrew Carnegie
He was a very giving man. He helped create many libararies and donated a lot of money to help charaiteis and funded foundations. -
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The American Dream
t began as a plain but revolutionary notion: each person has the right to pursue happiness, and the freedom to strive for a better life through hard work and fair ambition. The American Dream is a set of ideas in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. -
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Social Gospel
Progressivism was created.Progressivism is a broad philosophy 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. It took a look at social problems such as poverty and labor. -
Manifest Destiny
A man working for a Sacramento pioneer, John Sutter, found shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill. This was the start of the gold rush and people came from all over the world to dig for gold hoping to get rich. However, very few people found anything because the equipment was very expensive. -
Suffrage
Suffrage is the right to vote in a political election. Women mostly had the problem with not being a able to vote in political elections so they had movements to fight for their right to vote. The first National Women's Rights Convention takes place in Worcester, Mass., attracting more than 1,000 participants. National conventions are held yearly through 1860. -
Immigration
64% of all Americans resided in the region between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River, with increased movement further west into unsettled territories. The way that people got the land in the west was in all different ways. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was an American Union Leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union & the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and he was also a canidate for the president of the united states. He bacame involved with the Pullman Strike in 1894. -
Clarence Darrow
He 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 Robert. -
Teddy Roosevelt
He was the 26the President and he was the only president to win a Nobel Prize and a Congressional Medal of Honor. He created our Nation Park system. He also played a huge role in ending US isolationism. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a leading American politician. He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley. -
Jane Addams
She discover Toybnee Hall which served as a settlement for the less fortunate. She also discovered the Hull House in 1889. She launched the Immigrants Protective Leauge and Juvenile Protective Association. -
Homestead Act
It was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government, was 21 or older, or the head of a family, could fill out an application to claim a certain amount of land from the federal government. -
Ida B.Wells
She was a journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, socialogist, and an early leader of the civil rights movement. She refused to move out of a railroad care and won a lawsuit over it. She then became co-owner of an anit-segregationist newspaper. -
Third Party Politics
A third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals. In the 19th century, a number of new methods for conducting American election campaigns developed in the United States. One of the systems was characterizedby parties who dominated the government. -
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Navitism
Navitism is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. Nativism in the late 19th century was motivated primarily by hostility toward immigrant workers, the need to reduce overcrowding in western states, and cultural conflicts with Native American Indians. -
Susan B. Anthony
Her and her family worked to end slavery in the abolishist movement and they were also a part of the temperance movement. She found the National Women Sufferage Association in 1869. She fought for womens rights to vote and eventually took matters into her own hand and illegally voted in the presidential election in 1872. -
Urbanization and Industrialization
Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas. Industrialization is where a society or country transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and service Transportation was a huge role in urbanization and industrialization. Much of the developed world relied on trains for long-distance transportation. However, people were concerned with the health hazards related to transportation, especially coal-powered steam locomotives. -
The Gilded Age
The Railroad Strike of 1877.Brakemen and firemen from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad walk off the job at Camden Junction, Maryland, initiating a wildcat strike that will shut down thousands of miles of track throughout the northeastern United States -
Upton Dinclair
He wrote a book called "The Jungle" that was published in 1906 and it was about unsanitary packing of meat and the poor working conditions. The book resulted in the Senate passing the "Food and Drug Act." With the money from his book, he founded the Helicon Home Colony. -
Civil Service Reform Act
The act placed most federal government employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called "spoils system." The act provided for some government jobs to be filled on the basis of competitive exams. he merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections. -
Haymarket Riot
This event was also known as the Haymarket massacre. A labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. The riot was the aftermath event of a bombing that took place. -
The Dawes Act
It was adopted by Congress in 1887This act authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Political Machines
The Tammany Hall was a Democratic political organization in New York City. Tammany Hall’s popularity and endurance resulted from its willingness to help the city’s poor and immigrant populations. Tammany’s decentralized organization enabled ward leaders to act as advocates for individuals when they had difficulties with the law. -
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Populism & Progressivism
Populism is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions of the general people, especially contrasting those interests with the interests of the elite. The unions fought back desperately against wage cuts and agitated for shorter hours to put those two million back to work. They fought to have an 8-hour work day. -
Klondike Gold Rush
It was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada because gold was found. -
Muckraker
The term refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting. Muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was 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. The examinations of foods and drugs shall be made in the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, or under the direction and supervision of such Bureau. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar diplomacy is the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. Philander C. Knox felt that the goal of diplomacy to improve financial opportunities. Dollar diplomacy failed to counteract economic instability and the tide of revolution. -
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
Initiative is the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do. Referendum is a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. Recall is an act or instance of officially recalling someone or something.These all have to do with the states and not the federal government. -
16th Amendment
The 16th Amendment allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. Some conservatives in Congress supported the amendment as part of a scheme to defeat a pending income tax law in 1909. -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment modified Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. It is important because it allowed the people to choose who would represent their state in the U.S. Senate instead of state legislators choosing who would represent their state. -
The 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. The act was designed to prevent financial panics,bankruptcies, and boom and bust economy. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. The movement still exists today and it is embedded in much of government, academia, and the self-designed elites. -
19th Amendment
It gave women the right to vote, prohibiting any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. aAright known as woman suffrage. It gave to women the same power and control that men had, although still held back by the values of the day. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident. Wyoming Democratic Senator John Kendrick introduced a resolution that set in motion one of the most significant investigations in Senate history.
