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Ubanilization
an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas. An urban area is a built-up area such as a town or city. A rural area is an area of countryside. -
Third Parties Politics
Is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals. candidates can shift national attention to particular issues. The United States for American political parties other than the Republican and Democratic parties. -
Political Machines
is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses who will receive rewarded. -
Nativism
this is the reaction that american citizens gave to the immigrants. Earlier inhabitants of an area or a country sometimes develop a dislike or fear of immigrants . this became a major theme in america history. -
Indian Removal Act
Authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted an died. -
Manifest Destiny
the white settlers believed that god told them to move west because they will have a better life. native americans had already claim that land ,but the white settler would not take no for and answer. -
Suffrage
this movement was the struggle for the right of women to vote. The first women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. For the next 50 years, woman suffrage supporters worked to educate the public about the suffrage woman. -
Homestead act
this encourages western migration by giving settlers 160 acres of public land. This homestead act paid small filling fee. This is important because it is apart of events in the westward expansion of the United States. -
Susan B. Anthony
g a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement. She partnered with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and would eventually lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
The Gilded Age
Rapid immigration with the explosion of american moving farms the cities. The growing of cities started to rise in the urban boom .This rise gave birth to middle class in america. -
Eugene V. Debbs
labour organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920. Began his rise to prominence in Indiana’s Terre Haute lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen -
Civil Service Reform
Established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.this was to make arise in the world. -
Haymarket Riot
Demands for an eight-hour working day became increasingly widespread among American laborers in the 1880s. This was know for the Haymarket massacre in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
The intention of assimilating Native Americans into the United States. To do this, tribal control of land was taken away and land was granted to individuals holdings.This was a way for some Indians to become U.S. citizens ,but to do so they had to though away there culture and act white. -
populism & progressivism
populism was more anti-capitalistic that favored agrarianism while opposing drastic modernization ,and s academic in nature and seems to be more upper-class. -
Klondike Gold Rush
A group of men found gold in a tributary of the klondike river in Canada's yukon territory. At the time they had no ideal that they would set of the biggest gold rush in history. -
Ida B. Wells
was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.first began protesting the treatment of black southerners when, on a train ride between Memphis and her job at a rural school, the conductor told her that she must move to the train’s smoking car. Wells refused, arguing that she had purchased a first-class ticket. The conductor and other passengers then tried to physically remove her from the train. -
Clarence Darrow
was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He defended high-profile clients in many famous trials of the early 20th century, including teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks . -
William Jenning
was an American orator and politician from Nebraska.He emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. -
Initiatives and Referendum
Allow citizens of many U.S. states to place new legislation on a popular ballot, or to place legislation that has recently been passed by a legislature on a ballot for a popular vote. -
Immigration & The American Dream
the pursuit of opportunity for a good job, owning a home and in many cases, safety from war or persecution. Immigrants have remained more positive and hopeful about their potential to achieve it. -
Andrew Carnegie
He worked a series of railroad jobs.Through this experience, he learned about the railroad industry and about business in general. Three years later, him known as one of America's "builders," as his business helped to fuel the economy and shape the nation into what it is today. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt confronted the bitter struggle between management and labor head-on and became known as the great “trust buster” for his efforts to break up industrial combinations under the Sherman Antitrust Act. He was also a dedicated conservationist, setting aside some 200 million acres for national forests, reserves and wildlife refuges during his presidency. -
Muckrakers
were crusading journalists, photographers and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of awareness of social issues and injustices. Other muckrakers highlighted the weaknesses in the political system. -
Pure Food and During Act
it was trace thst its origins back to the creation of the agricultural division in patent office in 1814 . the federal consumers protection agency began with the passage of pure foods and drugs. -
16th amendments
the United States Constitution allows the Congress to impose an income tax without talking among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
Dollar Diplomacy
It gave economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries,Particularly during President William Howard Taft's term was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia . -
Federal Reserve Act
was a U.S. legislation that created the current Federal Reserve System. It establish a form of economic stability in the United States through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was an feminist by philosophy. In those days before women's suffrage , she believed that women should make their voices heard in legislation and the right to vote. This caused her reputation to grow when she started the movement. -
Industrialization
Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking. this brought increase in goods and stander living -
17th amendment
The United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state elected by the people for six years. They shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. -
18th amendment
the eighteenth amendment established the no prohibition law. The banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
19th amendment
the nineteenth amendment gave all women the right to vote. the formation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the passage of the nineteenth amendment . -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The teapot dome scandal shocked america as a reveal of great greed. this scandal involves lots of illegal things such as illegal liquor sales and murder-suicide. this was also the first time U.S cabinet offical served jail time for committed felony in office. -
Uptown sinclair
an American writer who wrote nearly one hundred books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century,
