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Indian Removal Act
The president had 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 Party Politics
No third party has won a presidential election in over a century. "Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die." any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Manifest Destiny
The belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. It was like God was telling them to go. -
Urbanization and Industrialization
Urbanization was the start of the new beginning. The population started growing, then eventually became over populated in many places. Industrialization started by inventing new things such as electricity, telephones, steel, and more. -
Susan B Anthony
She was a teacher for 15 years. She eventually joined the women's rights movement in 1852. Soon after, she dedicated her life to woman suffrage. -
Homestead Act
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government, older than21, or the head of a family, could file to get a federal land grant. -
Muckracker
This 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. -
Immigration and the 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. -
the gilded age
spanned the final three decades of the nineteenth century, was one of the most dynamic, contentious, and volatile periods in American history. Industrail growth and expansion of the economy. -
Civil Service Reform
The Civil Service Reform is a federal law that abolished the United States Civil Service Commission. It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called "spoils system." -
Ida B Wells
She was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was also active in womens rights and womens suffrage movement. -
Eugene V Debbs
Eugene V Debbs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. -
Haymarket Riot
The rally at Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works. -
The Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. -
Andrew Carnegie
Scotish American Idustrialist that led the huge expamsion to the American steel industry in the late 19th century. During his life time he had tons of schools and librarys named after him, most of which are still in use to this day. -
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. -
Populism and Progressivism
Progressivism: poliical orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society.
Populism: political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privaliged elite. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Also known as the Yukon, Alaska, and the Canada Gold Rush. -
Social Gospel
Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Theodore Roosevelt
The 26th president of the United Sates. Loved by many, hated by few. He was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative: people have the right to propose a new law. Referendum: a law passed by the legislature can be reference to the people for approval/veto. Recall: the people can petition and vote to have an elected official removed from office. -
Pure food and drug act
United States made it a law for federal inspection of meat products and get rid of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
Upton Sinclair
He was an American author that wrote almost 100 books. His most famous being "The Jungle". In 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
Federal Reserve Act
was 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. -
16th ammendment
The 16th ammendment allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a leading American Politician in the 1890's until he died July 26 1925. He was a dominant force in the Democratic Party three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States (1896, 1900 and 1908). -
17th amendment
The 17th amendment established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. -
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment of the United States established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Bribery scandal that took place in the US from 1920-1923 during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Suffrage
The right to vote. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. -
Clarence Darrow
He was a lawyer. Leader 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 in 1924 -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She was headstrong in her beliefs and made sure her opinion was heard by others. She was the first American woman to win the nobel prize in 1939
