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Nov 7, 1500
Industrialization
the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one. -
Nov 7, 1575
Recall
bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one's mind, especially so as to recount it to others; remember. -
Muckraker
Muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
Suffrage
The right to vote in political elections. -
Initiative
The ability to assess and initiate things independently -
Susan B. Anthony
death:March 13, 1906
she played a role in the women suffrage movment -
Indian Removal
A law that was passed by Congress 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. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Andrew Carnegie
death:August 11, 1919,
He lead the enormous expansion of the america steal industry in the 19th century -
Referendum
A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Death: January 6, 1919
he wa the 26th presedent of the united states -
Eugene V. Debbs
Death:October 20, 1926
an american union leader -
Clarence Darrow
death:March 13, 1938
he was an american lawyer and a leader of a american civil Liberties Union -
William Jennings Bryan
Death:July 26, 1925
he was a leading american politician from the 1890s -
Jane Addams
death:May 21,1935
She lead the women suffrage and world peace -
Ida B. Wells
death: March 25, 1931
she was an aferican american journalist -
Homestead Act
A special act of Congress that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms. -
immigration
he action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country -
The Gilded Age
Spanned the final three decades of the nineteenth century, was one of the most dynamic, contentious, and volatile periods in American history. -
The Dawes Act
Broke up previous land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservations, and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on. -
Upton Sinclair
Death:November 25, 1968
An american author who wrote about 100 books -
the American Dream
the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American. -
Civil Service Reform
An 1883 federal law that abolished the United States Civil Service Commission. It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called "spoils system." -
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. -
Klondike Gold Rush
A rush of thousands of people in the 1890s toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there. -
Political Machines
organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Progressivism
A wide spectrum of social movements that include environmentalism, labor, agrarianism, anti-poverty, peace, anti-racism, civil rights, women's rights, animal rights -
Third Parties Politics
contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals (or, in the context of an impending election, is considered highly unlikely to do so). The distinction is particularly significant in two-party systems. -
Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
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. -
16th Amendments
gave congess the power to tax income -
17th amendment
It calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures -
Federal Reserve Act
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. -
Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. -
18th amendment
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages -
19th amendment
extended the right to vote for women in federal or state elections -
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. -
The American Dream
the amrican dream is a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success -
Dollar Diplomacy
The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
Populism
A political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions (such as fears) of the general people, especially contrasting those interests with the interests of the elite. -
Urbanization
the increasing number of people that migrate from rural to urban areas
