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Muckraker
Some one who cleans/rakes up poop or filth -
Robber Baron
industrialists who also benefitted society -
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and feminist 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 -
Monroe Doctrine
any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US -
Indian Removal Act
authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders -
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Andrew Carnegie
He was Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He is often identified as one of the richest person and Americans ever. -
Industrialization
the process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods -
Bessemer Process
Steel making process -
Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable -
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Eugene V. Debs
"Gene" 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 -
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform -
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Theodore Roosevelt
He was an American Statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer. He was the 26th president of United States of America from 1901 to 1909. -
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William Jennings
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States -
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Jane Addams
She was a pioneer, American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosphopher, sociologist, author, and leader in the women's suffrage and world peace -
Homestead 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 five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land -
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Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement -
Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform -
The Gilded Age
An era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding -
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was an American writer of nearly 100 books and other works across a number of 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 -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
Haymarket Riot
the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians -
Populism & Progressivism
In the early 1890s, farmers, laborers, and middle class activists founded a political party named the Populist Party. They focused on the economic system. -
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 -
Yellow Journalism
journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration -
initiative, referendum, recall
hree powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office -
Political Machines
In U.S. politics, a political machine is a political organization that is authorized by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes -
Dollar Diplomacy
the efforts of the US to further its foreign policy through use of economic power by gaurenteeing loans to foreign countries -
17th Amendment
established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states -
16th Amendment
Allows the federal (United States) government to levy (collect) an income tax from all Americans -
Federal Reserve Act
An Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes -
18th Amendment
United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal -
19th Amendment
Granted American women the right to vote -
Nativism
A policy that protects the interests of native born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants -
Teapot Dome Scandal
a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Immigration and The American Dream
the set of ideals (democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality) -
Urbanization
When populations of people grow, and they move into big cities. -
Urbanization
When populations of people grow, and they move into big cities.
