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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was important because it stated that the newly independent United States would not tolerate European powers interfering with the nations in the Western Hemisphere, and if the European powers did interfere, then the United States would retaliate with war -
Homestead act
The Homestead Act of 1862 was one of the most significant and enduring events in the westward expansion of the United States. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Severalty Act was important for tribal life because it helped to reduce the tribes' ability to live in their traditional ways. -
Haymarket Riot
On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. -
Pure Food And Drug Act
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs -
The Gilded Age
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Klondike Gold Rush
The discovery of gold in the Yukon in 1896 led to a stampede to the Klondike region between 1897 and 1899. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
In the 1920s, Teapot Dome became synonymous with government corruption and the scandals arising out of the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Federal Reserve Act
It was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Social Gospel
Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. -
17th Amendments
The 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, was part of a wave of progressive constitutional reforms that sought to make the Constitution, and our nation, more democratic. -
19th Amendments
Nineteenth Amendment summary: The Nineteenth (19th) Amendment to the United States Constitution granted women the right to vote, prohibiting any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. -
Muckraker
He borrowed the term from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, in which a rake was used to dig up filth and muck. -
Nativisim
Nativists objected primarily to Irish Roman Catholics because of their loyalty to the Pope and also because of their supposed rejection of republicanism as an American ideal. -
Industrialization
By typical measurements, such as income per capita or labor productivity, industrialization can be considered the most important economic development in human history. -
Robber Barons (Captains of Industry)
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Initiative,Removal,Recall
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Indian Removal
It also led to them being forced to go to what is now Oklahoma in a movement known as the "Trail of Tears -
Bessemer Process
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. -
Andrew Carnegie
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Jane Addams
Her best known book, Twenty Years at Hull House, was about the time she spent at the settlement house. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Nicknamed Teddy, he was one of the most popular and important Presidents ever to serve in the Chief Executive Office -
Eugene V. Debbs
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Upton Sinclair
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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 -
Ida B. Wells
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Clarence Darrow
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William Jennings Bryan
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16th Amendments
The 16th amendment is an important amendment that allows the federal (United States) government to levy (collect) an income tax from all Americans. -
18th Amendments
The 18th Amendment, which began the Prohibition era with the outlawing of alcohol, opened the doors to organized crime during the 1920s, overwhelming law enforcement prior to the amendment's repeal in 1933. -
Manifest Destiny
It was the primary force that caused the United States to expand west across North America. -
Immigration & the American Dream
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Urbanization
Urbanization occurs when people move from rural to urban areas, so that the proportion of people living in cities increases while the proportion of people living in rural areas diminishes -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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Populism & Progressivism
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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 (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Dollar Diplomacy
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Yellow Journalism
Pulitzer's paper the New York World and Hearst's New York Journal changed the content of newspapers adding more sensationalized stories and increasing the use of drawings and cartoons.