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indian removal policy
an act to remove native americans and relocate them west of the Mississippi river in exchange for their homelands -
Manifest destiny
The belief of american settlers that they’re destined to expand and conquer. ie the homestead act where they gave the native americans land to the american settlers -
Homestead act
The homestead act gave American settlers 150 acres of land and if they improved i within 5 years they would own it afterwards. -
urbanization and industrialization
People moved from rural to urban areas in order to get factory work. the US started to move towards factory production as their main source of work. -
Political machines
Political parties that corrupt the government, an example would be Tammany hall and Boss Tweed who pocketed %65 of the fundings for buildings in new york, his downfall was during the orange riot -
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the gilded age
an era of rapid economic growth and industrialisation. it was a built up to look good looking in but on the inside the gilded age was horrible for rights. ie there were railroad workers on strike throughout the united states -
Civil service reform
movements for the improvement of civil services. The national civil service reform league would investigate the efficiency of civil services -
Nativism
After the assimilation and almost annialation of the native american culture, Nativism helped protect their interest. -
populism
The interest and conceptions of the general people. ie the interstate commerce act to regulate railroads and prevent discrimination -
Dawes act
an act to give native americans land on alotted reservations -
Jane Addams
women's rights and anti-war activist that opened up a house to serve immigrants and poor people -
Andrew Carnegie
a philanthropist that made the steel industry boom, an advocate to progressing economically and socially -
Eugene V. Debs
labor organizer and socialist leader, he organized the american railway union and held a strike against the pullman company of chicago. -
Klondike gold rush
a migration of about 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Canada in search for gold. -
third party politics
a third party is anyone not in the 2 major political parties republicans and democrats. ie populist are a third party, until the democrats adopted much of the populist agenda -
Haymarket riot
A bombong during a labor demonstration -
Teddy roosevelt
26th president of the united states and addressed several progressive issues. ie; wildlife & natural resource conservation, pure food and drug act -
Upton Sinclair
Upton sinclair published a book over the conditions of the food/ drugs and working conditions in factories to make the mistreatment more widely known -
Muckraker
Journalist who searched for alleged corruption and scandals. ie Upton Sinclair exposed working conditions in his book “The Jungle” -
Pure food and drug act
An act to put sanitary and safety regulations on goods/services and to keep them from lying about what their product could do or what's in it. -
Initiative, referendum, recall
gave the people the right to vote for the laws they want, the representatives they want, and to recall any corrupt elected official. ie Muller V. Oregon, which justified both sex discrimination and the usage of labor laws -
dollar diplomacy
a policy aimed at furthering the interest of the US abroad by encouraging the investment of US capital in foreign countries. the most known is Taft dollar diplomacy enacted by president taft and aimed at latin america and east asia -
Ida B. Wells
an african american civil rights activist, she’s considered one of the founding members of the NAACP national association for the advancement of colored people -
17th amendment
voters can cast direct votes for US senators. Prior to this amendment legislators appointed senators. -
16th amendment
congress can collect taxes on income -
Federal reserve act
the federal reserve act set up the federal reserve, the central banking system of the US -
immigration and the american dream
Immigrants would come to the united states for the dream of “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” only to find they would be treated poorly and unequal, congress required you to pass a literacy test for citizenship designed to be difficult to even americans -
18th amendment
The prohibition of alcohol, led to the rise of organized crime. -
progressivism
The idea of progressing, like technology, science, and economic development. ie they fought for the 18th amendment to prohibit alcohol -
Susan B. Anthony
womens rights activist and her work paved the road to the 19th amendment which allowed women to vote -
19th amendment
Ended womens suffrage. Now women can vote -
suffrage
is the right to vote in political elections. ie the 19th amendment when they ended womens suffrage -
Teapot dome scandle
Albert B. Fall leased navy petroleum reserves in teapot dome in wyoming and california to private oil companies at low rates and accepted a bribe for it. -
Social gospel
The attempt to apply biblical teachings to problems associated with industrialisation. an amendment to end child labor was passed. -
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan represented the creationist in the court case “State of Tennessee V. Scopes” arguing that the bible should be taught in school -
Clarrence Darrow
an american lawyer and and one of the leading members of the american civil liberties union and represented John T. scopes in the court case “State of Tennessee V. scopes” but scopes lost, but increased the discourse on faith versus science
