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Nativism
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Civil Service Reform
Civil Service Reform in the U.S. was a major issue in the late 19th century at the national level, and in the early 20th century at the state level. Proponents denounced the distribution of office by the winners of elections to their supporters as corrupt and inefficient. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American Industrialist, he also led the big expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
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. -
American Dream
The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. -
Suffrage
Suffrage is the right to vote in political elections. -
Immigration
Immigration is the movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native in order to settle there. -
Homestead act
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe, which attracted millions of immigrants. -
Haymarket Riot
Haymarket Riot was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 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
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 -
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. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
16th Amendment
The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
17th Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
The 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. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th president of the United States. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of 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 -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of 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 Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the reign of President Warren G. Harding. -
William 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 (1896, 1900 and 1908). -
Eugene V. debbs
Eugene V. Debbs was an American Union leader, one of the founding members of Industrial workers of the world, and 5 times candidate of the socialist party of America for President of the United States. -
Ida B Wells
Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, piblic philosipher, socioligist, author, and leader in womens suffrage and world peace. -
Clarence Darrow
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. -
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. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair 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. -
Urbanization
Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, and the ways in which society adapts to the change. -
Industrialization
Industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one
