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Indian Removal
This led to the eviction of Native Americans from their lands in the Southeast. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the belief by Anglo-Saxon Americans that it was the destiny to expand across North America and impart idealism in institutions that were able to handle self-government. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was a womens sufferage leader and helped women have the right to vote. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker. She stands as one of our nation's most uncompromising leaders and most ardent defenders of democracy. -
Immigration & the American Dream
Opurtunity and freedom for immigrants called "the american dream" -
The Gilded Age
A period of greed and duplicity, the Gilded age was an era of corruption, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism. -
Political Machines
These were organizations that provided jobs and social services to people in exchange for jobs in the 1800s. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr., was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle. -
Civil Service Reform
This made people have to take exams to get jobs in politics which led to better fit pople in jobs. This wa also the time of the merit system debate. (gold or metal?) -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket riot (also known as the Haymarket massacre) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
The Dawes Act
An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations and emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was involved in the Eugene vs. railroad case. -
Urbanization & Industrialization
Opportunity for jobs had many people moving fom urban areas to the cities in hope to pursue the american dreams in the late 1800's. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The time where everyone rushed to find gold in hopes of becoming rich. -
Nativism
he policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Muckraker
Muckrakers were journalists who used their skills and voices to call for reform in the early 1900s by exposing government corruption. -
Suffrage
The right to vote in political elections. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative is the power to propose new legislation.
Referendum is the power to reject or overturn legislative actions taken by the Council.
Recall is the power to remove an elected official from office. -
Social Gospel
Movement in the early 1900s that applied Christian ethics to issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, and war. -
Populism & Progressivism
This led to several forms like the children work and womens sufferage movements -
Theodore Roosevelt (TR)
Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States. He was apart of the rough riders. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act made the food and drugs have to be tested and factories had to ably to certain standards. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Was the effort of the United States in the early 1900s to influence Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Third Parties Politics
Third party candidates rarely actually win elections, however they can have an effect on them. This is the third parties politics. -
The 16th amendment
This amendment allows the federal government to collect income tax within the state -
17th amendment
Allowed us to vote for our senators. -
Federal Reserve Act
Is the central bank of the United States. The Federal Reserve was to provide the nation with a safer, flexible and stable monetary and financial system. -
18th amendment
This amendment prohibited the sale of alcohol. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
19th amendment
This amendment allowed women to vote.
