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Muckracker
Collectivity. This was also to search up something in politics. This was applied to all american journalist. -
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Key Terms
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Nativism
Ethnocentric beliefs in immigration and nationalism. Belief in regional religious cutoms. -
Political Machines
political machines were able to build a loyal voter following, especially among immigrant groups, by performing favors like providing jobs. -
Indian Removal
Demanding political and military action to remove Native American Indians from the southern states of America. -
Manifest Destiny
Expressed belief it was Anglo-Saxon Americans’ providential mission to expand civilization across the breadth of North America. The expansion would include territorial aggrandizement. -
Susan B. Anthony
joined the women rights movement in 1852. Anthony dedicated her life to women suffrage. -
Homestead Act
Opened up settlement In western United States. It allowed any american including slaves to claim a 160 acre property if they too care of it for five years. -
Urbanization and Industrialization
Rcher people moved out of the city to get away from the crowded conditions. -
Social Gospel
A social-reform movement that has to do with religion. especially among liberal Protestant groups dedicated to betterment of industrialized society through application of the principles of Justice and charity. -
Gilded Age
It was a time of economic growth, that equally staggeredthe rich and poor. -
Haymarket Riot
The American labor movement during this time included a radical faction of socialists, communists who believed the capitalist system should be dismantled because it exploited workers -
Dawes Act
It allowed for the President to break reservation of land, which was held common by the members of a tribe. -
Andrew Carnegie
Employees at Carnegies company refuse to work due to the workers feeling that the company's success came at expence. this was called the homestead strike of 1892. -
Clarence Darrow
He defended Eugene V. Debs, arrested on a federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Debbs was the socialist president canidate in 1900, 1908, 1912, and 1920. Debbs became greater reknown when he went to jail for the role of leading te Chicago's pullman Palace Car Company Strike. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Portland cxame to seattle with over a ton of gold. Gold was all over the place. Stakeholder became weaalthy. -
Progressivism and Populism
The peak of the populism movement was said to be during William Jennings Bryan’s triumph as president of the Democratic Party. -
Ida B. Wells
Wells brought her anti-lynching campaign to the White House, leading a protest in Washington, D.C., and calling for President William McKinley to make reforms. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt signed the National Monuments Act. He was protectiong sites like the Grand Canyon and preserving countless wildlife sanctuaries. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
A Federal Law that provides federal inspection of meat products, sale or transportation. Only includes certian drugs like , Cocaine, alcohol, heroin, morphine, and cannabis. -
Dollar Diplomacy
It was evident in extensive U.S. interventions in the Caribbean and Central America, especially in measures undertaken to safeguard American financial interests in the region. -
16TH, 17TH, 18TH, AND 19TH Amendments
These were just making the society clear with taxes, Elction of senators, Prohibition, and Womens' suffrage. -
Federal Reserve Act
Established ecoomic stability through central bank into the United States. -
Immigration And the American Dream
Immigrants came from all arounfd the world wanting to be apart of america. -
Jane Addams
She became chair of the womens peace party. Jane addams attended the International Congress of Women at the Hague in the Netherlands in respose of WW1 in 1915 -
Suffrage
American women practice to vote for the first.August 26 was when the law was ratified that women should have all rights of men. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Control of naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome was transferred from the Navy Dept. to the Dept. of the Interior. The oil reserves were set aside for the navy by President Wilson. -
Williams Jennings Bryan
Bryan led prosecution of Scopes, a biology teacher charged by breaking the Tennessee law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. -
Upton Sinclair
In 1943 he recieved the Pulitizer prize for his book, Dragons Teeth. -
Civil Service Reform
This refers to labors of the organizations representing most of the executive branch of Federal Government. -
Initiative, Referendum Recall
The initiative process is basically a group who want to purpose a law to the people. Referendum is when legislative branch votes on a bill. Recall is the process of having a re-vote. -
3rd Parties Politic
In all states, the Democratic and Republican candidates automatically get on the ballot, whereas third-party candidates usually have to get thousands of signatures on petitions just to be listed on the ballot.
