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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was mainly was Women's Rights activist and social reformer. Books that include her are many; such as History of Women's Suffrage, The account of proceeding suffrage, etc.) -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The European powers, according to him, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the U.S' sphere of interest. It was was a U.S. policy of opposing European colonialism -
Indian Removal
Indian removal was a policy of the U.S government in the 19th century where the Native Americans were forcibly removed from their homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River, thereafter known as Indian Territory. For example, Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. He is also the one that passed the law in 1830. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American who led the huge movement of the American Steel Industry, who was then made one of the wealthiest Americans in history. -
Industrialization
Industrialization is the process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to manufacturing of goods. Individual manual labor is often replaced by mechanized mass production, and craftsmen are replaced by assembly lines. It is characterized as being the revolution of factories and working children and women in dangerous and unfair conditions. It is simply the period of change that transforms a society from an agrarian society into an industrial one. -
Manifest Destiny
The Manifest Destiny is the belief that America was the upmost powerful nation in the world and people encouraged for it to get even bigger through expansion. (To the west; hence the famous picture presented.) It is a doctrine extending on this topic of America beginning to be discovered. (Which was established and published in 1845.) -
Bessemer Process
a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort. The modern process is named after its inventor, Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856. The process was claimed to be independently discovered in 1851. It was mainly about steel. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was and still is a very iconic man for many reasons. He was the 26th president of the United States (1901-1909), and was also author, soldier, explorer, naturalist, and reformer. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene (aka Gene) V. Debs was a popular American union leader. He was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World, and also was candidate for the Socialist party for the U.S five times for the President at the time. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow became a popular American lawyer when he volunteered to defend John Scope's right to teach evolution. He was also a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He later died in March 1938. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was a politician from Nebraska, and was popular in the Democratic party, volunteering to stand three occasions as the party's nominee for President of the U.S. He later died in July 1925. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was an American activist in women's suffrage and rights. (Amongst many other things, she was also a pioneer, social worker, philosopher, author, etc.) -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western movement by giving settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small fee and were obligated to complete approximately five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Geologist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. She passed away in March 1931. -
The Gilded Age
The word Gilded means a thin layer of gold. The Gilded age was conducted throughout the 1870's and 1880's, it's purpose was it was the U.S' main industrial power. Industrialists and finances formed trusts. IT conducted Criticism of unfair practices and poor worker treatment. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was a popular writer. He wrote hundred of books (Such as The Jungle, King Coal, Dragon's Teeth, etc.) which then won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
This act was a federal law passed by President at the time, Chester A. Arthur. It was simply a prohibition of free immigration to the U.S specifically of the Chinese (specifically laborers.) This act provided at least a ten year prohibition for Chinese labor immigration. -
Haymarket Riot
The 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 Illinois. Strikes by industrial workers were increasingly common in the United States in the 1880s, a time when working conditions often dangerous, and pay was low. The American labor movement during this time also included a radical faction of socialists, communists and anarchists who believed the capitalist system should be dismantled. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887 adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States, by congressman Henry Dawes. It is an act to provide for the allotment of lands to Indians on the various reservations, and to expand the protection of the laws of the U.S & Territories over the Indians. He claimed that to be civilized meant to "wear civilized clothe,cultivate the ground, live in houses, ride in Studebaker wagons, send children to school, drink whiskey [and] own property." -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 people to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. With cries of "Gold! Gold! in the Klondike!" there unfolded a brief but fascinating adventure. Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie and George Washington Carmack found gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative, referendum, and recall are three powers reserved to enable voters to propose legislation or remove an elected official from office. Proponents of an initiative, referendum, or recall effort must apply for an official petition serial number from the Town Clerk in order to say so. The first state to adopt the initiative was South Dakota in 1898. -
Nativism
In general, nativism is a term that expresses favor for previous citizens over new ones, it is a form of superiority. In the U.S, nativism has been defined as “the intense opposition to an internal minority on the grounds of its allegedly un-American characteristics” This fear and hatred of foreigners or “aliens” in the United States has been typically directed against religious or ethnic minorities and political radicals. -
Pure food and drug act
The Pure Food and Drug Act is an Act that prevents the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic. It is considered the Muckraking triumph. The original Pure Food and Drug Act was amended in 1912, 1913, and 1923. A greater extension of its scope took place in 1933. -
Muckraker
The term Muck means waste or feces. Muckrakers are journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices. The term was coined by Theodore Roosevelt. Works were published in popular magazines. -
16th Amendment
The 16th Amendment changed some of Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution. It states that the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. So basically it explains that the federal government has the right to collect taxes form American Citizens. -
17th Amendment
The 17th Amendment was passed by Congress May 13, 1912, and ratified April 8, 1913. The 17th amendment modified Article I, section 3 of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state. The first proposal to amend the Constitution to elect senators by popular vote began in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1826, but did not succeed. -
Dollar diplomacy
From 1909 to 1913, President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox signed a foreign policy called the “dollar diplomacy.” The dollar diplomacy is simply the use of a country's finances to improve it's international reputation or image. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and finalized the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the U.S, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes (now commonly known as the U.S. Dollar). The Federal Reserve Act, signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, gave the 12 Federal Reserve banks the ability to print money in order to ensure economic stability. This act is still in use to this day. -
18th Amendment
the 18th Amendment was basically the attempt to prohibit alcohol across the nation because the government believed it was a possible threat. In 1933, widespread public disillusionment led Congress to ratify the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote based upon sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. Until the 1910s, most states still did not grant women the same rights as men. It was not until 1848 that the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level. People really had a hard time letting women have these rights. -
Teapot dome scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal, also called Oil Reserves Scandal, is a scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of it. It was a bribery incident that took place in the U.S from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. It is named after the Wyoming rock. -
Immigration and the American Dream
America gives Immigrants a new beginning. (Opportunity.) The United States offers a less hierarchical society that provides more opportunity than many other country, while allowing immigrants to have citizenship. Through home ownership and entrepreneurship, immigrants have helped grow the U.S. economy and improve the economic condition. -
Social Gospel
Social gospel is a noun that states that the Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. It was a religious movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives that arose in the U.S in the late nineteenth century with the goal of making the Christian churches more responsive to social problems, such as poverty and prostitution and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. -
Urbanization
Urbanization is defined as where a certain area of a district becomes more like a city rather than countryside or rural. It is the act of an town or a city becoming more popular in which involves economic growth and improvement. It is a social act. An example of an extreme urban city would be New York City. -
Populism and Progressivism
The difference between populism and progressivism is that populism is simply the belief that regular or common people have power and their right to have a certain amount of control over the government. Progressivism is the idea or philosophy that believes in progress in all different types of fields. This includes science, technology, social development, etc. -
Political Machines
A political machine is a political organization or establishment that explains that a boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Yellow Journalism
The adjective "Yellow" is typically represented of something being amateur or novice. Yellow Journalism is a term that conveys journals that have crude behavior and lack of research in which they make assumptions upon a subject and show great exaggeration. An example would be to say that smoking Marijuana is equivalent to murder in morality. -
Robber Barons
"Robber baron" is a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unprincipled methods to get rich. These businessmen were acting unethically and were participating in monopolistic practices, which in turn, had a negative effect on the economy.
