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Immigration and the American Dream
Immigrants is associate the American dream with opportunity, a good job and home ownership. The United States offers a less hierarchical society that provides more opportunity than many other countries, while allowing immigrants to assume a fully American identity. -
Muckraker
To reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
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Susan B. Anthony
American social reformer 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 -
Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress in 1830 and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson which mandated the removal of Indians, primarily the Cherokee and other members of the Five Civilized Nations from lands in Georgia and other areas -
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. Nativism gained its name from the ''Native American'' parties. -
Manifest Destiny
The notion of Manifest Destiny helps to illuminate a fundamental difference in both the experience of American History as well as the retelling of it. The O'Sullivan phrase was meant to express American belief in superiority and provided the rationale behind United States Expansionism. -
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Eugene V. Debbs
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. -
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Clarence darrow
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks. -
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Teddy Roosevelt
American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States. -
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Williams Jennings Bryan
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 -
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Jane Addams
A pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act helped to expand and develop the United States because it granted land for agriculture. It allowed people to acquire land west of the Mississippi River and to settle it. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862. The Homestead Act was a way for the pioneers to get land. The government said that any U.S. citizen who did not fight against the government could file an application to receive land. -
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Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
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Political machine
There is little question that the Tweed Ring were outright thieves and that Tammany Hall did have a series of reoccurring scandals. An estimated 75 to 200 million dollars were swindled from the City between 1865 and 1871. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, the Canadian Gold Rush, and the Last Great 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. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in American history originally meant the years of the Grant Presidency. -
Populism and Progressivism
The 1890s and early 1900s saw the establishment of the Populist and Progressive movements. Both were based on the people’s dissatisfaction with government and its inability to deal effectively in addressing the problems of the day. -
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Upton Sinclair
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
Of United States is a federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit. The act provided selection of government employees by competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation. It also made it illegal to fire or demote government employees for political reasons and prohibited soliciting campaign donations on Federal government property -
Haymarket Riot
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Severalty Act was important for tribal life because it helped to reduce the tribes’ ability to live in their traditional ways. The Dawes Act ended communal ownership of the land and parceled it up into pieces to be owned by individual Native Americans. The major effect of this was to (eventually) drastically reduce the amount of land available to the tribes. -
Urbanization and Industrialization
Business and industrialization centered on the cities. The ever increasing number of factories created an intense need for labor, convincing people in rural areas to move to the city, and drawing immigrants from Europe to the United States. As a result, the United States transformed from an agrarian to an urban nation, and the demographics of the country shifted dramatically. -
The Pure Food and Drug Act
Is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines -
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Dollasr Dimpolmacy
its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries -
Third Parties Politics
The Progressive Party of 1912 was an American political party. It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft. -
16th,17th, 18th, 19th Amendment
16th Amendment authorized Congress to levy an income tax. 1913 - 17th Amendment gave the power to elect senators to the people. Senators had previously been appointed by the legislatures of their states. 1919 - 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. 1920 - 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
It was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve was created on December 23, 1913, when President Woodrow. -
Suffarage
Is the right to vote gained through the democratic process -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s involved national security, big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States. It was the most serious scandal in the country’s history prior to the Watergate affair of the Nixon administration in the 1970s.