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Indian Removal
It granst unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands. Some tribes went peacefully, but many didn't go to the relocation. -
Manifest Destiny
The belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and unavoidable. All the accompanying changes of landscape, culture, and religious belief it implied, had deep orgin in American culture. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was a leader in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement. She worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Nativism
Nativists believed they were the true “Native” Americans regauredless of their being under from immigrants themselves. Nativists created a political party and tried to limit the rights of immigrants. -
Third Parties Politics
The Republican and Democratic Parties controlers of slecting politics.Every federal elected official in the U.S. is either a Republican or Democrat. Which results systems of there is an incentive to form smaller third parties. -
Andrew Carnegie
He was an American manufacturer who get a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist.He worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory before moving up to a new job of a division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was an advocate of immigrants, the poor, women, and peace. She rejected marriage and motherhood in favor of a lifetime commitment to the poor and social reform. -
Homestead Act
For 10 dollars an individual could register for land avialable to settle in a 160 acre.If that person farmed, built a house, or otherwise improved the land they got the title in 5 years. I t was very hard work but, the land was worth lots. -
The Gilded Age
It is a time between the Civil War and World War I, which the U.S. population and economy grew fast. There was a lot of political dishonestey. This wa known for its poltical scandals and huge dislpays of money. -
Political Machines
It is a political organization which an boss or small group leads the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. They who do this receive rewards for their efforts. -
Civil Service Reform
Jobs within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of excellence instead of political alliance. They need this because it helped most federal employees on the value system and marked the end of the "spoils system." -
Eugene V. Debbs
He was a labour, organizer, and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times.He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly. He called a boycott of the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars. -
Clarence Darrow
He was an American laywer and a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.He was also a important spokesperson for Georgist economic reform. -
Haymarket Riot
It was a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at the police. This is also know as Haymarket Affair or Hatmarket Massacare. -
Dawes Act
The fedral law that attmepted to break up reservation.It was approved by the president of the U.S.to survey American Indian tribal land and divide into ratios for individiual Indians. Those who accepted allotments and ived sepratley from the tribe would be given U.S. citizenship. -
Industrialization
Machines took over manual labour as the main function of manufacturing.The increasing of production capacity of the industry tremendously grew. -
Ida B. Wells
She was a journalist and led an anti-lynching movment in the United States. She went on to found and become essential in groups striving for African-American justice. -
Populism & Progressivism
Populism is a belief in the power of normal people and in their right to have power over their government.Progressivism is applied to a loys of reactions to the economic and social problems. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was an American speaker and politician from Nebraska. He became a dominant force in the Democratic Party. He also woked in the United States House of Representatives and as the US Secretary of State. -
Klondike Gold Rush
A rush of thousands of people toward the Klondike gold mine district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there. There was 675 million dolaes worth of gold found in U.S. dollars. The rush is importnat to Canada because the word got around and the rush of adventurers increased until it reached its end point. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was governor of New York before becoming U.S. vice president. At age 42,he then became the youngest man to be in the U.S. presidency. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton made a public statement, this lead to federal legislation like the Pure Food and Drug Act and the improvments in working conditions for meat packers and other factory workers. The Pure Food and Drug Act was diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It prevents the manufacture, sale, or transportation of poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors. Having this act helped save their health of themselves, fzmil, anf friends. -
Muckraker
The one who studies into and publishes wrong behavior and claims of dishonesty among political and business leaders. Theodore Rosevelt used it in his speech many were upset because it was insulting word to them. -
Dollar Diplomacy
The country's financial power to extend its international influence. This was Americas foregin policy to further it promises in Latin America and East Asia through economic power guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
16th Amendments
The government takes collects income taxes from americans. The taxs helps have an army, build roads,and brides,etc. This means the government will have the power to collect taxes from any one whithout apporttionment among the states. -
17th Amendment
It gives americans the right to vote directly for their Senators, this making the link between people and the federal government. This means the senate of the United States must find two Senators from each state. -
Federal Reserve Act
It establishes a form of economic stability in the U.S. through the introduction of the Central Bank.The central banking system of the U.S. which created the authority to issue the U.S. dollar legal tender. -
18th Amendment
The U.S. Constitution capable established the babbed of alcoholic beverages in the U.S.They did this by saying the production, transport, and sale of alcohol is illegal. -
19th Amendment
It joined the right to vote laws across the U.S. for women and their right to vote. It allowed equal rights for voting to men and women. This meant women could not be turned away by the U.S. or by the state because she is a women. -
Suffrage
The U.S. Constitution accepted American women the right to vote. This right is known as womans suffrage. The U.S. was estblished and female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
A government peron doing wrong things was involved in a former U.S. Navy oil reserve in Wyoming, it was secretly leased to a private oil company. It was sometimes used to symbolize the power and effect of oil companies in American politics. -
Immigration & the American Dream
The US offers a less harsh society that provides more opportunitys than many other countries.This allows immigrants to take on a American identity. This helped them by more pay, home,food,higher education, a good job. -
Urbanization
They are making new land like a city. They did this because the population icreaded and need new buliding ans such. Having little homes,stores,etc equlaed more jobs becaiuse they need more workers to build those buildings. -
Initiative & Referendum
This a straigt vote of an entire body of politic is invited to vote on a certain plan. It could end in a different and new law.This is an election device in which a law can be either accepted or deny based on the outcome of votes of people.
