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Urbanization
Urbanization is the process of making an area more urban. Urban is the opposite of rural; rural is plain, country not many major cities. Urbanization includes city growth or cities wanting to be more urban. -
Nativism
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. Nativist outbursts occurred in the Northeast from the 1830s to the 1850s, primarily in response to a surge of Irish Catholic immigration.To this day in 2017, there are still problems with nativism. -
Indian removal
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830. authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. Some tribes went willingly but many others resisted. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny started in 1845. Manifest Destiny was the belief that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. Many people moved west to expand because of the concept of manifest destiny. -
Initiative and Referendum
Initiative and Referendum three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. This may result in the adoption of a new law. -
Third Parties Politics
A third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals. An example would be any political party besides be Republican and Democratic. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to 1900. The name for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's writings. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was the leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 1901. He donated large sums of his fortune to educational, cultural, and scientific institutions. He was also an American industrialist and philanthropist. -
Industriliazation
Industrialization was the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. Industrialization and urbanization affected Americans everywhere. Not every city in the country developed as fast as the largest cities did. -
Civil Service Reform
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a federal law in the U.S. It established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Ida B. Wells
A daughter of slaves, Ida B. Wells was a journalist. She led an anti-lynching group in the United States in the 1890s. She was also a newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Riot was an outbreak of violence in Chicago on May 4, 1886. Demands for an eight-hour working day became increasingly widespread among American laborers in the 1880s. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act was adopted by congress in 1887. The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. It emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams co-founded one of the first settlements in the United States, the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, in 1889, and was named a co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. The Hull house was a settlement house in the United States that opened its doors to recently arrived european immigrants. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism is a mode of political communication that is based on contrasts between "the common man" or the "people". While progressivism hose who follow or support progressivism are mostly elite, rich, and powerful politicians while those who support populism are the generally masses. -
Susan B. Anthony
She partnered with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and would eventually lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She advocated for Women's rights for many years. She declared that the vote was woman's basic right and the means to gaining other rights. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician. He give his famous "Cross of Gold speech" at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896. Bryan supported bimetallism or "free silver", which he believed would bring the nation prosperity -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was discovered on August 16, 1896 in Bonanza Creek.The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
Political Machine
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 which are usually campaign workers, who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs was a labour organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920. -
Muckraker
A person who intentionally seeks out and publishes the misdeeds, such as criminal acts or corruption, of a public individual for profit or gain. Sometimes this information is linked to powerful businessmen. This term is often applied to journalists. The Muckraker era was from the 1900-1970s. -
Theodore Roosevelt
A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Roosevelt was president from 1901 to 1909. He signed legislation establishing five new national parks -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906. It prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar diplomacy started during President William Howard Taft's term. The Dollar diplomacy was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913.The Federal Reserve Act was a U.S. legislation that created the current Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability in the U.S. -
16th Amendment
The 16th amendment 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. Meaning that in America we have to pay taxes. -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment states that The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. Which is explaining who all gets to be in the white house and the voting rights they posess. -
18th Amendment
This amendment was what we know now a prohibition. This amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure. -
19th Amendment
This amendment caused a lot of uproar in the 20th century. This amendment provides men and women with equal voting rights. The amendment states that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." -
Suffrage
Suffrage often refers to voting. Such as women suffrage. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win certain voting rights. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was named for a Wyoming rock formation resembling a teapot. The scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer whose work as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials earned him a place in American legal history. He defended high-profile clients in many trials of the early 20th century. -
Immigration & the American Dream
The concept of the American Dream was created by historian James Truslow Adams.The American Dream was an opportunity for Immigrants.The American dream is achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking and hard work, not by chance. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American writer who wrote hundreds of books and other works in different genres. Sinclair's work was well known and very popular in the beginning of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
