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Industrialization
The industrial Revolution took place from the 18th to 19th Centuries, it was a period during rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. Prior to the industrial revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700's, manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines. -
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights advocate who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Urbanization
Populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. The increase of the population will also start an increase in the areas on the countryside. U.S. cities became more numerous and much larger during the nineteenth century because of two trends. The first was immigration, as waves of immigrants from Ireland and then Italy and other nations began coming to the United States during the 1820's. -
Monroe doctrine
An annual message to congress contained the Monroe Doctrine which warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. It's one of the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. -
Indian Removal
Was a policy of the United States government in the 19th century whereby Native Americans were forcibly removed from ancestral homelands in the eastern Unites States to lands west of the Mississippi River, thereafter known as Indian Territory. -
Nativism
Nativism declined in the Revolutionary Era, but in the 1830's, as immigration from Ireland and Germany swelled the Catholic population , the new anti-alien movements emerged, launching violent attacks on Catholic institutions and publishing numerous anti-Catholic tracts. -
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Andrew Carnegie
He was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He is often identified as one of the richest people and one of the richest americans ever. -
Robber Barons (Captains of Industry)
It was a term applied to a businessman in the 19th century who engaged in unethical and monopolistic practices, wielded widespread political influence, and amassed enormous wealth. -
Manifest Destiny
It was taken up by those desiring to secure Oregon Territory, California, Mexican Land in the Southwest, and in the 1850's Cuba.By the end of the century, expansionists were employing quasi- Darwinist reasoning to argue that because it's Anglo- Saxon heritage made america supremely fit. -
Bessemer process
Was the first method discovered for mass-producing steel. Though named after Sir Henry Bessemer of England. The process evolved from the contributions of many investigators before it could be used on a broad commercial basis. After several failures, he succeeded in proving his theory and rapidly producing steel ingots. -
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American Lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform -
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theodore Roosevelt
He was an american statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
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William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an american orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States. -
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Jane Addams
She was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, it encouraged Western immigration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
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Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells- Barnett, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an african-american journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil rights. -
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Uppton Sinclair
He was an American writer of nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. He was well known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1943/ -
Populism and Progressivism
A movement started during the 1880's. Farmers or those associated with agriculture believe industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. Farmers become united to protect their interests, and they also created a major political party. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Haymarket Riot
This is also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot. It was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday at a Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
This is also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887. I was 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. -
Gilded Age
This was called by Mark Twain, by this he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. In the popular view, the late 19th century was a period of greed and guile: of rapacious Robber Barons, unscrupulous speculators, and corporate buccaneers, of shady business practices, scandal- plagued politics, and vulgar display. -
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Yellow Journalism
It was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. During it's heyday in the late 19th century it was one of many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, leading to overseas territory by the United States. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie and George Washington Carmack found gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon territory. They had no Idea that they would have set off on one of the greatest gold rushes in history. An army of gold seekers, unaware that most of the good Klondike claims were already staked, boarded ship in Seattle and other Pacific port cities and headed north toward the vision of riches to be had for the taking. -
Initiative, Referendum, and recall
These are three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. Proponents of this effort must be applied for an official petition serial number from the Town Clerk. -
Muckraker
Name given to US journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in politics and business in the early 20th century. This term was first used by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It was to help from preventing the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
From 1909-1913 President William Howard Taft and Secretary of States Philander C Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as "dollar diplomacy" -
16th Amendment
It was passed on July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913. It changed a portion of Article 1, Section 9. 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. -
17th Amendment
The Amendment states that the Senate of the united Staes shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; each senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
Was an act of congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the united Sates, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes. -
18th Amendment
It's the only amendment to be repealed from the Constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. The amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure, because people found other ways to drink alcohol. The 21st amendment repeals the 18th amendment in 1933, and today we call the period that the 18th amendment was law prohibition. -
19th amendment
Passed by congress June 4, 1919, and this amendment granted women the right to vote. It guaranteed that all american women had the right to vote. -
Social Gospel
Religious social-reform movement prominent in the united States from about 1870 to 1920. It mainly talks about the movement interpreted the Kingdom of God as requiring social as well as individual salvation and sought the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Also called Oil Reserves Scandal or Elk Hills Scandal, in American history, scandal of the 1920's surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of inferior. -
Immigration And The American Dream
It was first used by the American historian James Truslow Adams in his book which was soon published. At that time the United States were suffering under the great depression . Adams used the term to describe the complex beliefs, religious promises and political and social expectations. -
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Eugene V. Debbs
He 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 Unites States. -
Political machines
A political organization in which a boss that has a lot of authority or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. This usually deals with campaign workers, who receive rewards for their efforts.