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Indian Removal Act
The act was passed by Andrew Jackson, it allowed the president to negotiate with the indians from the south for their territory in the west. Many Christians protested the law while other people supported it because they wanted the land for resources and more places to live. -
Manifest Destiny
American settlers believed that god wanted them to settle the whole continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Also they wanted to move for economic reasons like new industries. Religion was also apart if it mormons wanted to be able to practice their religion freely. God, Glory, and Gold -
Homestead Act
The Act gave settlers chunks of land in the west that were also called homestead. So anyone could apply for land if they moved west and african americans for a chance to own land. -
Susan B. Anthony
Anthony and her friend Stanton joined the women's rights movement in 1852.
In 1870 she formed and was elected president of the Workingwoman's Central Association which wrote reports on working conditions and provided educational opportunities for working women
She was known for being a women's right activist -
The Gilded Age
This was the era of rapid economic growth.This era experienced great numbers of European Immigrants. -
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie lead the led the expansion of the steel industry.
In 1875 Carnegie opened his first steel plant in Braddock Pennsylvania.
During the end of his life he he gave millions of dollars away to charities. -
William Jennings Bryan
Jennings became a congressman in 1890. -
Ida B. Wells
Wells was a African American journalist and activist. She traveled the the south for two months collecting information about lynching afters her friends were wrongfully lynched. She then wrote a detailed report about lynching for a african american newspaper. In 1893, Wells published "A Red Record" a personal examination of lynchings in America. -
Clarence Darrow
Darrow was a Lawyer who worked in criminal trials.
He defended Eugene V. Debs in 1894 -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was an event of migration by about 100,000 people going to the Klondike region of north-western Canada to find gold because it was discovered in many large deposits along the Klondike River in 1896 -
Urbanization
Urbanization progressed during the gilded age because it lead to opportunities, technology and engineering advancements. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Became the 26th president of the United States in September 1901.
When it came to foreign policy he believed America should "speak softly and carry a big stick".
Roosevelt was also the youngest president to go into office.(42 years old) -
Initiative and Referendum
There were three powers that allowed voters the power to be able to remove an elected official from office the powers are Initiative, Referendum, and Recall. -
Jane Addams
Addams made speeches about the needs of her community and raised money.
In 1905 Addams was appointed to Chicago's Board of Education and made the chairman of the school National Conference of Charities and Corrections -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair wrote the novel "The Jungle" in 1906
The book was about the unsanitary conditions and cruelty to animals in the meat packing industry.
Because of his Novel the Pure Food and Drug Act ant the Meat Inspection act were both passes the same year. (1906) -
Muckraker
Muckrakers were people who would write books, articles and take pictures of the problems so everyone would see how life really was. Like child labor, Factories, and how the poor lived -
17th Amendment
passed in 1912 and it established the popular election of U.S senators by the people -
16th Amendment
passed in 1909 and it stated that congress had power to lay and collect taxes on income it was ratified on February 3 1913 -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy is the use of a country's financial power to extend its influence it was a foreign policy until William Taft decided to use it -
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the U.S, and created the U.S. dollar. -
18th Amendment
Passed in 1919 it established the prohibition of alcoholic drinks in the United States and it was illegal to produce, transport, and sell any type of alcohol -
19th Amendment
Passed in 1919 it made men and women have equal voting rights -
Teapot Dome Scandal
A bribery incident that happened in 1921. Petroleum reserves in Wyoming were leased to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 the leases were investigated by Thomas Walsh
