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Monroe Doctrine
It is a principle of Us policy. It was originated by President James Monroe. It stated that any intervention by external powers of the Americans is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
Indian Removal Act
It was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. It was a grant to purchase unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. Some tribes went peaceful while many resisted the relocation policy. -
Manifest Destiny
The idea that God has ordained Americans to be able to control land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This was brought along to influence Americans to expand and move west. This began to secure the Oregon Trail Territory. -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. This act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete 5 years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
The Giled Age
It was the result of the American Civil War. It sprung the economic powerhouse. This was the beginning of the railroads, small businesses grew larger and the nation's economy was dominated by few, very powerful individuals. -
Andrew Carnegie
American Industrialist who made a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. He made his first fortune by the time he was in his 30's during the early 1870's. In 1901, he sold the Carnegie Steel Company to a banker John Peierpont Morgan for $480 million. -
Social Gospel
A religious movement that arose in the us with the goal of making the Christian churches more responsive to social problems such as poverty and prostitution. Americans were poor and this movement emerged among Protestant Christians. This improved the economic, moral and social condition of the urban working class. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the US. She became President of the National American Women Suffrage Association. In 1872 she voted in the presidential election illegally and was arrested . She was fined $100 which she never paid. Her work helped pave the way for the 19th amendment to the constitution that gave women the right to vote. -
Political Machines
It is a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses who receive rewards for their efforts. This usually applies to campaign workers. They grand jobs and governments building contracts to those that did them favors such as voting -
Clarence Darrow
He was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union (1880). He was among the first attorneys to be called a "labor lawyer". He was also against slavery and his home became a station along the Underground Railroad. -
Immigration & the American Dream
The American Dream is success in instant wealth and success. It is the opportunity for success. This is because in many other countries the opportunities and freedom that exist in the US are non- existent. Many Immigrants move to the US expecting instant prosperity but you have to work for it. Still exists today. -
Chineses Exclusion Act of 1882
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the US. It was to help those on the West Coast who were especially prone to attribute declining wages and economic ills on the despised Chinese workers. It was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was a labor organizer and socialist leader. He entered politics as a Democratic City Clerk. In 1885 he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with broad support from Terre Haute's workers and businessmen. Debs organized the American Railway Union which waged with a strike. -
William Jennings Bryan
He became a Nebraska congressman. He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become US president. However, after helping Woodrow Wilson secure the Democratic presidential nomination for 1912, he served as Wilson's secretary of the state until 1914. He campaigned for peace, prohibition and suffrage, and was criticized for the teaching of evolution. -
Haymarket Riot
A labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square. It turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at the police. At least 8 people died as a result of the violence that day. -
Dawes Act
It was signed by President Grover Cleveland. the act split up reservations by Native American tribes into smaller units and distributed these units to individuals within the tribe. It changed the legal status of Native Americans from tribal members to individuals subject to federal laws and dissolved many tribal affiliations. -
Jane Addams
Known as the "mother of social work". She was a American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, and a leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She founded Hull House in 1889 with her college friend. -
Initiative & Referendum
They are three powers for the government. It is reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. It is the process that allows citizens to propose of initiate a statute constitutional amendment. -
Populism
It is politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the Middle West and South that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation. The Populist was organized or the People's Party. It was a revolt by farmers agonist Democratic and Republican Parties that ignored their interests and difficulties. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Gold was discovered in the late 19th century. It was a frenzy of the gold rush. The was something that many immigrants would turn to in order the try and make money. It gold rush began when Skookum Jim Mason found gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory. They didn't realize it would set off one of the greatest gold rushes in history. -
Industrilization
The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. So many people flocked to the cities in order to work in the manufacturing companies and factories. America turned to mass production and assembly lines. -
Bessemer Process
It was a steel-making process. Carbon, Silicon and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort. It was the fist inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel. -
Robber Barons (Captains of Industry)
It was a metaphor of social criticism. It originally applied to certain American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich.They did gain tremendous power and wealth during the economic and industrial growth because the were also entrepreneurs. -
Recall
A recall election is also called a referendum or representative. IS is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended. it is used in government to get rid of a leader that could be involved in scandal. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was a young Republican politician. He unexpectedly became the 26th president of the US in September 1901, after the assassination of William McKinley. He brought a new energy to the White House, and won a second term in 1904. He became known as the great "trust buster" for his efforts to break up industrial combinations under the Sherman Antitrust Act. He was dedicated to the environment setting aside national areas . He then won the Nobel Peace Prize. -
PUre Food and Drug Act
This act removes harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market. It also regulates the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade. A similar process is used today through the FDA -
Muckraker
One who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruptions among political and business leaders. It was popularized by President Theodore Roosevelt. It was mostly a term used in the progressive era to characterize reform- minded American -
Ida B. Wells
She was an African American journalist, sociologist feminist and an early leader in Civil Rights Movement. She was a hard worker. She was one of the founders of the NAACP in 1909. -
Dollar Diplomacy
President William Howard Taft's Policy. It was to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Progressivism
Support for or advocacy of social reform. It is based on the idea of making progress. It would include anything that asserts in the advancement of science, technology, economic development and social organization. -
16th Amendment
Taxes- A tax money that is paid to the government will be added when buying or owning something valuable. It allows the government to collect income tax from all Americans. This means the government can keep an army, build roads and bridges, enforce laws and carry out important duties. -
17th Amendment
It was an amendment that was ratified. It provided an election of 2 us senators from each state by popular vote. This meant they could serve for a term of six years. -
Federal Reserve Act
It is an Act of congress. I created and established the federal reserve system which is the central banking system of the US. This resulted in forming economic stability in the us through the introduction of the central bank. -
18th Amendment
Prohibition -Francis Willard who had advocated women's rights, suffrage, prison reform and improved working condition in factories also organized the Prohibition Party. By 1919 the work of Willard and other reformers had created efficient pressure to persuade enough states to ratify the 18th Amendment banning the sale of alcoholic drinks. -
Urbanization
The process of making an area more urban. An increase in a population in cities and towns versus rural areas. This began during the industrial revolution when workers moved into the cities to be closer to the factories. -
Yellow Journalism
It is a famous newspaper war. It was between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer 2. Pulitzer's paper the New York World and Hearst's New York Journal changed the content of newspapers adding more sensationalized stories and increasing the use of drawings and cartoons. -
Nativisim
It was a wide national consensus sharply restricted the overall inflow of immigrants. This was in particular to those from southern and eastern Europe. This was from the KKK which flourished int the US during this time and they were strong natavists. -
19th Amendment
This gave American women the right to vote. It was known as women suffrage. Many Activists formed organizations that raised public awareness and lobbied the government to grant voting rights to women. After many years of fighting for equal rights women were finally able to vote. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
It revealed an unprecedented level of greed and corruption within a presidential administration. The scandal involved ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politician, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide and much more. In the end the scandal by legal precedent, empowered the Senate to conduct rigorous investigations into government corruption. Marked the 1st time a US cabinet official served jail time for a felony committed while in office -
Upton Sinclair
He was involved in socialism and he was an author. So that lead him to write The Jungle (1906 about the plight of workers in the meatpacking industry. This was one of the best-selling novels.
