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Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and feminist activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. -
Indian removal
ndian removal was a policy of the United States government in the 19th century whereby Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River, thereafter known as Indian Territory. They did this so they could have more land to sell to white people. They moved indians to reservations and there was almost no space. -
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Andrew Carnegie
He was one of the richest men of america even to this day. he was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry. -
manifest destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. People moved westward throughout the united states. people expanding westward was inevitable and coming up with new things was inevitable. -
Immigration and the american dream
This is for immigrants who moved to the U.S. They moved in search of work and the american dream. What most found was poverty and slavery. Most did not find the america dream. -
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Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Victor Gene Debs was an American union leader and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World ran five times as a socialist for president. -
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. Was the fifth son of Amirus and emily Darrow. Had deep roots in England. -
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Theodore roosovelt
He was an american statesman,author and army general and 26th president. He was an american explorer. He was a driving force for progressive era. -
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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. Although he did not win presidency he was still a candidate.fter helping Woodrow Wilson secure the Democratic presidential nomination for 1912, he served as Wilson’s secretary of state until 1914. -
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Jane addams
she was a pioneer american settlement activist,social worker, public service worker ETC. She gained fame all around the world. Se received the noble peace prize. -
Homestead act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration 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. If they were on the land for five years they could claim it for free. -
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Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. Ida Bell 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 Movement. -
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upton sinclair
he was an american author who wrote over 100 books. His work was well known in the twentieth century. He was a very popular author so that makes him important because he is well known. Him getting over 100 books out there is great because it gives people a chance for more knowledge. -
populism
Populism. The populist movement started during the 1880's. Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. Farmers become united to protect their interests. They even created a major political party. -
political machines
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 (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. They are workers who try and get people to come to their side. -
Dollar diplomacy
The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. Try to influence other countries with financial power. They use their money to try and influence people. they get out of trouble with money. -
Chinese exclusion act of 1882
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Haymarket riot
The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. people started a riot because of the way they were treated. -
Dawes act
The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887), 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. They would push out native americans to reservations. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. People moved westward for a gold rush. they wanted to be rich so they wanted to find gold to be rich -
Gilded age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. It was a thin layer of gold over everything. It made it look good but it was crappy under it -
Social gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. People made this for a form of religion -
Pure food and drug act
Excerpt from the Pure Food and Drug Act. An Act For preventing 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. People would sell crappy food and rugs but they wouldn't work so they had to come up with this to stop it. -
16th amendment
passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913. The 16th Amendment changed a portion of Article I, 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. They can collect taxes from the people because it is legal. They need taxes to pay for certain things. -
Urbanazation
Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. People moved from farming to the cities because people did not want to farm when they didn't have to and they could live in populated areas. -
Robber barons
He was an unscrupulous plutocrat, especially an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means. They gained money by having a monopoly over one business so they could control that product. They gained enormous amounts of wealth -
17th amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. No one branch could have all the power so they made the 17th amendment -
Industrialism
Industrialism is a social or economic system built on manufacturing industries. An example of this would be a small city built around a Walmart and a few other stores. People industrialized to make money and expand their corporations. -
18th amendment
Most of the organized efforts supporting prohibition involved religious coalitions that linked alcohol to immorality, criminality, and, with the advent of World War I, unpatriotic citizenship. They wanted to get rid of alcohol for underaged because it led to bad things such as violence. -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment \ to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. Until the 1910s, most states disenfranchised women. This is good because its giving women almost equal rights as men because men were suppose to be superior in this time. -
Teapot Dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. They tried to bribe people but -
muck cracker
They spread allegations to ry and ruin business. They do this so they can ruin them and corrupt them from the inside. It gives other business more opportunities. -
yellow journlism
Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. They exaggerate things to make it seem worse then it is. They want to make drama and make things sound worse sot they can get more attention. -
Bessemer process
A steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort. They removed all of the bad things from steel in order to sell it to consumers. -
Monroe doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. They did this so they would not be a part of Europe and they would be their own country.
