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Susan B. Anthony
She was a social reformer in America. She also acted a great deal in Womens' sufferage. She was also against slavery and acted on it from the age of 17. -
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Susan B. Anthony
After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. This experience, and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852. Soon after, she dedicated her life to woman suffrage. -
Indian Removal
The president claims to have treatied with the indians, but we all could have guessed by now that he just stuck them on horrible reservations, and took their lands and killed the animals. -
Third Parties Politics
Where people like me could not care less about democrats or republicans, but we have a somewhat moral oppinion. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, a self-made steel tycoon and one of the wealthiest 19th century U.S. businessmen, donated towards the expansion of the New York Public Library. At the age of 13, in 1848, Carnegie came to the United States with his family. They settled in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and Carnegie went to work in a factory, earning $1.20 a week. The next year he found a job as a telegraph messenger. Hoping to advance his career, he moved up to a telegraph operator position in 1851. -
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Andrew Carnegie
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Manifest destiny
An infestation of americans. They beleive to strongly in destiny. It was their beliefs that made america as large as it is. It Kinda helped or i would have been raised with another language. -
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. -
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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. -
Clarence Darrow
An American Lawyer who attempted to defend criminals, in the trial for murder of a fifteen year old boy. -
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
When people decided on politicians who bribed them with buttons and posters. They stay in office for a little bit, and mess the world up. then the people find out, and try to get him away from power. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Born in New York City on October 27, 1858, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was governor of New York before becoming U.S. vice president. At age 42, Teddy Roosevelt became the youngest man to assume the U.S. presidency after President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. He won a second term in 1904. Known for his anti-monopoly policies and ecological conservationism, Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in ending the Russo-Japanese War. He died in New York on January 6, 1919. -
William Jennings Bryan
An American democratic politician, he was a candidate for their party three times. -
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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
The first of the acts, the Homestead Act of 1862, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. 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
She was an African American writer for the newspaper, she also took the time to edit it. She was a sort of leader in the civil rights movement. -
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Social Gospel
Social Gospel, in American history, a religious social-reform movement that was prominent from about 1870 to 1920, especially among liberal Protestant groups dedicated to the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice. -
Muckraker
Nosey reporters thaat tried to expose a corrupt leader. They did a pretty good job. -
Social Gospel
Industrialization was under judgement from god. the people in charge were afraid of the isolation of religion from the working class. they believed in social progress and the goodness of humanity. -
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Populism
In the early 1890s, a coalition of farmers, laborers, and middle class activists founded an independent political party named the People's Party, also known as the Populist Party. This party was the product of a broad social movement that emerged in response to wrenching changes in the American economy and society. In the decades after the Civil War, the telegraph and telephone meant that information that had taken weeks or months to travel across continents and oceans. -
Upton Sinclair
Was an author who wrote 100 books of all different types. He was famous in the first half of the twentieth 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
People working in government jobs were to be rewarded as such. though only a few were actually in those positions. -
Haymarket Riot
On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing. The Haymarket Riot was viewed a setback for the organized labor movement in America, which was fighting for such rights as the eight-hour workday. -
The Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. In the eyes of supporters, this law would “civilize” the Indians by weaning them from their nomadic life, by treating them as individuals rather than as members of their tribes, and by readying them for citizenship. Although generally well intentioned, the law undermined Indian culture, in part by restricting their -
Jane Addams
Born on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams co-founded one of the first settlements in the United States, the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, in 1889, and was named a co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. Addams also served as the first female president of the National Conference of Social Work, established the National Federation of Settlements and served as president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She died in 1935 in Chicago. -
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Progressivism
The Progressive Era (1890 - 1920) The Progressive Era (1890 - 1920) Progressivism is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America. Progressivism began as a social movement and grew into a political movement.The Progressive Era (1890 - 1920) The Progressive Era (1890 - 1920) Progressivism is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America. -
Populism & Progressivism
People were unhappy with the government, they didnt think that the government was solving any current day problems. then they realized that they couldnt do anything but throw a fit like children. -
Urbanization & Industrialization
With new factories being built and electricity being used, laborors were needed. So every one from the farmlands moved to the cities and they lived happily ever after NOT. they worked too long and for too little pay. -
Immigration & the American Dream
Back then Americans and immigrants could practically smell the american dream. It was very possible and a complete reality. Nowadays its more of an ancient fairytail. -
The Gilded Age
The true american essence. From everywhere else, they see a calm and beautiful country. Under the blanket, hides a nasty politics section with a corrupt government and messed up crime rates. -
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. -
Political Machines
A group of politicians, where a boss commands a lower group and gives them rewards. Like training dogs. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The first Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906. The purpose was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support. The original Pure Food and Drug Act was amended in 1912, 1913, and 1923. A greater extension of its scope took place in 1933. -
16th Amendment
When congress gained the power to collect taxes according to the amount of money people earned. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Taft attempted to safeguard american money in the Caribbean, as well as central america. -
17th Amendments
Senators now were to be elected by popular vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
Reserve bank notes became legal. And banks were given more power to seep into peoples lives. -
Nativism
Americanism" or "Nativism," the belief that native-born Americans, especially if of Anglo-Saxon extraction, have superior rights to the "foreign-born," intensified during the "Red Scare" of 1919-1920. Nativist emotions were compounded by the association of immigrants with anarchists, Socialists and Communists, and figured prominently in the notorious 1920s trial of the foreign-born Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Also during the 1920s. -
Suffrage
People want the right to vote. They fight for it. They get it. Womens sufferage was most important. -
19th Amendments
This is the beautiful amendment thatgave women the right to vote. The 15th amendment said that the government could not take away any person's voting right. that one did not apply to women. -
18th amendment
This is when people banned drinking. a very good idea I might say. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
They gave the oil reserve companies over to the navy. Petroleum was also given to somebody else. most companies were given in secret.
