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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the beliefe that the west was God's gift the America and that it was their devine right to settle there. The west belonged to Americans. Manifest Destiny happend in the 19th century -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a womens rights activist in the early 19th century. She was very outspoken. -
Indian Removal
Forceful removing of native americans east of the mississippi onto reservations. -
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish industrialist who expanded the steel industry. -
Nativism
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. This happend when too many people immigrated to america. This is how we got the chinese exclusion act. This mostly happend in the late 19th century. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Union Leader and one of the founders for industrial workers of the world. He was a socialist. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer and a leader in the civil liberties union. Best known for defending teenaged killers in court. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Explorer, Author and the 26th president of the United States. -
William Jennings Bryan
Former secretary of state William Jennings Bryan, was a politician from the late 1890s till his death. His party was democratic. -
Jane Addams
Leader in womens sufferage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
The U.S. government would give land to settlers for little or no money at all. This was very popular becuase of the many poor people during this time -
Ida B. Wells
African American journalist and newspaper editor during the late 19th century. She was also a leader in the civil rights movement. -
The Gilded Age
The guilded age was a time during the last 19th century that wwas an age of industrialization and production that lasted from 1870 to 1900. -
Upton Sinclair
American Author who wrote almost 100 books. He gained fame through the first part of the 20th century. -
Imigration
Imigration to the united states in the late 19th century and early 20th century peaked during this time. -
Industrialization/American dream
Industrialization occured during the late 19th century and the early 20th century. This was one of the main reasons for the population increasing during the time. Many imirgrated to America to get the American dream which was being free and making money. -
Civil Service Reform
This was a law passes in 1883 that affected federal jobs and ended the Spoils system. It also got rid of the United States Civil Service System. -
Haymarket Riot
Workers went on strike at the McCormick Harvest Machine Company, demanding eight hour workdays. The company locked out the strikers and hired new people. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act was a plot to Americanize the native americans in the country. It would give them seperate land from their tribes in order for them to start acting like an "American" -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a time when over 100,000 prospectors migrated to North Western Candada in search of gold and riches -
Political Machines
Political machines in the late 19th century and early 20th century were companies that would get their employees to vote a certain way for incentive and rewards. -
Populism & Progressivism
Political doctrine that appeals to intrest of the people. Populism helped shape the United States. Progressivism was in the early 20th century that was an age of civil reforms. -
Muckraker
A Muckraker was a journalist or Author who went through the poverty stricken streets and took pictures or exposed the conditions of certain things they felt needed attention. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act made factory conditions more safe for the people consuming their products. People no longer had to be afraid of eating a factory workers toe or blood because of the governemt regulation of the conditions. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Efforts made by the U.S. in order to increase business with latin countires. Most of this was done under president William Taft -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act was created by the U.S. goverment in 1913 to establish economic stability due to many people not trusting the currency. This was a very important law to our U.S. financial system. -
16th Amendment
This amendment made imcome taxes exempt from the constitutional requirement for direct taxes. -
17th Amendment
Made the senate comprised of two senators from each state that will be elected by the people. -
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment made the purchase, production, and sale of alcohol illigal. This was known as prohibition. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot dome scandal took place from 1920 till 1923 and was an incedent where a cabinet member was acused of accepting bribes from wealthy oil companies and was sentenced to prison. This was the greatest scandal before the "watergate scandal". -
Social Gospel
The Social Gospel was a protestant Christian reform movement that was most popular during the early 20th century. 1870s-1920 -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. This was what womens sufferage was for. -
Suffrage
The right to vote in Politcal elections (mostly womens sufferage which was finally ended with the addition of the 19th amendment). -
Third Parties Politics
A third political party is a party that has no assosiation with the democrats or republicans. Most of the time the third party is known as the independent party. The third party usually brings concerns that no one else talks about to light.
