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Industrialization
Industrialization is the process when machines replace the work that was once done by people. Technology became more important. It started with the industrial revolution. The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. -
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Political Machine
A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their work.
One of the most infamous of these political machines was Tammany Hall, theDemocratic Party machine that played a major role in controlling New York City and New York politics and helping immigrants, most notably the Irish, rise up in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s. -
Susan Brownwell Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was an 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. -
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The Civil Rights Reform
The Civil Rights Reform is the substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office. It was a major issue in the late 19th century at the national level, and in the early 20th century at the state level. It started with the Tenure of Office Act of 1820 and ended with the CSRA of 1978. -
Third Parties
In the United States of America, there have been numerous "third parties". The largest since the mid-20th century are theLibertarian and Green Parties.In electoral politics, a third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals. The Anti-Masonic Party (also known as the Anti-Masonic Movement) was the first "third party" in the United States. The Anti-Masonic Party was formed in upstate New York in 1828. -
Indian Removal
Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation. The Indian Removal Act is a law that was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. The term manifest destiny originated in the 1840s. In an article on the annexation of Texas published in the July-August 1845 edition of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review John L. O'Sullivan wrote about Manifest Destiny. -
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs
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 Seward Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an 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. -
Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr.
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. -
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. -
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Nativism
Nativism is the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. ( not exact date above) -
Homestead Act of 1862
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 Bell Wells-Barnett
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
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Urbanization
Urbanization is the increasing number of people that migrate from rural to urban areas. It predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas, be it horizontal or vertical. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008. It was a very long and gradual process, with the United States only becoming an urban-majority nation between 1910 and 1920. -
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The Social Gospel Movement
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. It started in 1870, along with the ending time of the Civil War.
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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. It was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. The gilded Age brought a lot of Immigrants who hoped for a better life. -
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Muckrackers
muckrakers, name applied to American journalists, novelists, and critics who in the first decade of the 20th cent. attempted to expose the abuses of business and the corruption in politics. Since the 1870s there had been recurrent efforts at reform in government, politics, and business. The muckraking movement lost support in about 1912. ( not exact date) -
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
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. -
The Haymarket affair
The Haymarket affair (also known as theHaymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
American Dream and Immigration, presented by the Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France represents the freedom, and is a symbol of Immigration and the American Dream, that comes with it. Immigration is the movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native in order to settle there. And those people come to America, because they believe that they can do anything here, when they work hard for it and the Statue is the inspiration and motivation for that. -
Dawes Act of 1887
The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887), adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
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Progressivism and Populism
Picture:'http://yamasun.net/Images/NewYorkTweed.gif' POPULISM: During the 1880’s, farmers believed that industrialists and bankers controlled both the republicans and the democrats within’ the government. Western farmers formed the Populist Party. PROGRESSIVISM: a movement to improve American life by taking advantage of democracy . Both were part of the Progressive Era. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike 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. -
Referendum, Recall, Initiative
"Referendum" is a general term which refers to a measure that appears on the ballot. Recall is a procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office. nitiative is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. The first state to adopt the initiative was South Dakota in 1898. The initiative was for the suffrage for women. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 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. -
Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI)
The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. This amendment exempted income taxes from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes, after income taxes on rents, dividends, and interest were ruled to be direct taxes in the court case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895). The amendment was adopted on February 3, 1913. -
Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII)
The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitutionestablished direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. By April 8, 1913, three-fourths of the states had ratified the proposed amendment, making it the Seventeenth Amendment. Secretary of StateWilliam Jennings Bryan formally declared the amendment's adoption on May 31, 1913. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. By December 23, 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law, it stood as a classic example of compromise. -
The Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. It took many months and nearly straight party-line voting, but on December 23, 1913, the Senate passed and President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act. -
Suffarage
Suffarage the right to vote in political elections. Women where not allowed to vote for a long time so they did the Women's suffragists parade in New York City in 1917, carrying placards with signatures of more than a million women. -
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Teapot 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. -
Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII)
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol.It was the first to set a time delay before it would take effect following ratification, and the first to set a time limit for its ratification by the states. Its ratification was certified on January 16, 1919, with the amendment taking effect on January 17, 1920. -
Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX)
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitutionprohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.
