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Urbanization
Making an era more urban, population shift. Meaning that the lands will get more populated with people. More people will start to travel and look for better land in which they choose to settle. -
Monroe Doctrine
United States would not interfere in the internal affairs nor the wars between European powers. Declaring old world and the new world. This was the U.S. policy of opposing European colonialism in The Americas beginning in 1823. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny happened during the 19th century period of American expansion. It was a stretch from coast to coast. The Americans during this era thought they were suppose to do this because of God. -
Robber Barons
Derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th century unscrupulous methods to get rich. For example someone could support workers' rights but destroy the unions. It may also be a noble who robbed travelers passing through their lands. -
Muckraker
This is a term used in the progressive era. Characterized reform-minded American journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines. They attacked established institutions and corrupt leaders. -
Susan B Anthony
American social reformer and women's rights activist 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. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. -
Bessemer Process
First inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. It was the first cost-efficient industrial process for the big-scale production of steel from molten pig iron by taking out impurities from pig iron using an air blast. The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron. -
Homestead Act
The homestead act were federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, "homestead", at little or no cost. It provided settlers with 160 acres of public land. Before one could own the land they had to be residence for 5 years. -
Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was a daughter of two slaves, She helped find the NAACP, which is still a thriving organization. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established in habitants against those of immigrants. Also the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation. -
Chinese Exclusion act of 1882
Federal law prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers. First law implemented to prevent a specific ethic group from immigration to U.S. Those on the West Coast were especially prone to attribute declining wages and economic ills on the despised Chinese workers. -
Haymarket Riot
This was the Aftermath of a bombing that took place at labor demonstration at Haymarket square in Chicago. The cause; demands for an eight-hour working day became increasingly widespread among American laborers in the 1880s. A demonstration, largely staged by a small group of anarchists, caused a crowd of some 1,500 people to gather at Haymarket Square. -
Dawes Act
Authorized president to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotment for individual indians. The intension was to assimilate native americans into the United States. It may also be called the Indian Homestead Act. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people ever. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams started the first full house program. Many who lived there were immigrants. She was also known as the mother of social work, pioneer american settlement activist/reformer. -
Eugene V Debs
Debs lead the infamous Pillman strike. Which supported the strike by launching a boycott in which ARU members refused to run trains containing Pullman cars. He was also an American union leader. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the democratic party and also three time party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Klondike Gold Rush
A migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. This was discovered by George Washington Carmack and his indian brother in laws. -
Yellow Journalism
Sensationalism and crude exaggeration. These were writers that made everything very exaggerated, nothing like how things actually were. -
Gilded Age
Late 19th century development of American Society. The Gilded Age was a period of transformation in the economy, technology, government, and social customs of America. Rapid immigration, along with the explosion of Americans moving from farms to the cities, caused an urban boom during the Gilded Age. -
Political Machines
Political organization which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. They would grant jobs and government building contracts to those that did them favors. -
Industrialization
Process of a country becoming "urban", and using machines more for manufacturing. Industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. -
Dollar Diplomacy
To further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans mode to foreign countries. Taft's theory is to "substitute dollars for bullets”, which means that it will be both beneficial to the United States and the less developed countries. -
Populism
A doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions of general population. Populism is a mode of political communication that is based on contrasts between the "common man" or "the people" and a real or imagined group of "privileged elites", traditionally scapegoating or making a folk devil of the latter. -
Progressivism
A brand philosophy based on the idea of progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition. The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman ,author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. and also was from 1899 to 1900. -
Pure food and Drug Act
An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquor, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Upton Sinclair
American writer who wrote nearly one hundred books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. Upton Sinclair wrote "the jungle", which was based on a meat packaging industry in Chicago. Sinclair also wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
17th Amendment
We elect our senators to represent us in the United States Senate. The Senate is one of two houses in the US Congress. There are two Senators for every state for a total of 100. This system is to make sure that every state has an equal amount of representatives. -
16th Amendment
Allows congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States census. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of congress that created and established the federal reserve system. The central baking system of the U.S. and it granted it the legal authority to issue federal reserve notes. -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in United States by declaring illegal the production, transport, and sale of alcohol. -
19th Amendment
Prohibits any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. -
Tea Pot Scandal
A bribery incident that took place in the United States during the administration of president Warren G. Harding. -
Immigration & the american dream
The American dream has many different meanings. U.S. born citizens usually associate it with such themes as wealth, financial security, freedom and even family. Immigrants in the U.S are more likely to define the American dream as the pursuit of opportunity, a good job, owning a home and in many cases, safety from war or persecution -
Social Gospel
Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century. Which happened in the United States and Canada. The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ. -
Initiative and Referendom
A process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. -
Recall
A procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office. -
Clarance Darrow
An American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He was known for his defense of unpopular causes and persons, including Eugene V. Debs. Darrow was defense attorney in the Scopes trial. -
Indian Removal
Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the eastern U.S. to lands west of the Mississippi river. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy
