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Indian Removal
in May of 1830, on the 28th day it was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson -
Manifest Destiny
it was what Americans believed they were meant to do. Other historians view Manifest Destiny as an excuse to be selfish. They believe that it was an excuse Americans used to allow them to push their culture and beliefs on everyone in North America. -
Susan B. Anthony
went on to work as a teacher before becoming a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement. She partnered with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and would eventually lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Nativism
it was favoritism toward native-born Americans, which caused immigrants issues with jobs and adapting to the new culture and language -
Homestead Act
encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. Exchanging the homesteaders had to paiy a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of "continuous residence" before receiving ownership of the land. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was the Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist, he also was the leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 1901. He donated large sums of his fortune to educational, cultural, and scientific institutions. -
Suffrage
the definition is the right to vote in political elections. There were different types of suffrage for example: women's suffrage. -
Urbanization & Industrialization
Industrialization lead to urbanization by creating a thing known as economic growth and job opportunities that draw people to cities. The urbanization process typically begins when a factory or multiple factories are established within a region, thus creating a high demand for factory labor. -
Immigration
a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence. Including all the hardships immigrants had to go through to get to the destination they wanted to be at. -
Haymarket Riot
was also known as the Haymarket massacre, in Chicago, where a bomb was thrown at a squad of policemen attempting to break up a labor rally. The police responded with wild gunfire, killing several people in the crowd and injuring dozens more. -
The Dawes Act
authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was an advocate of immigrants, the poor, women, and peace. Author of numerous articles and books, she founded the first settlement house in the United States in 1889. Her best known book, Twenty Years at Hull House, was about the time she spent at the settlement house. 1931 she was awarded the Nobel peace prize. -
Ida B. Wells
Wells led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s, and went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
Eugene V. 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. "I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." He did boycotts as well. -
William Jennings Bryan
was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Klondike Gold Rush
1896-1899 Located in the areas of the Yukon Region, Klondike Region, Canada, and Alaska. It was an event of migration by an estimated 100,000 people prospecting to the Klondike region of north-western Canada in the Yukon region between 1896 and 1899. -
Theodore Roosevelt
the 26th president of the United States (1901–09) and a writer, naturalist, and a soldier. He expanded the powers of the presidency and of the federal government in support of the public interest in conflicts between big business and labour and steered the nation toward an active role in world politics, particularly in Europe and Asia. -
Upton Sinclair
The greatest significance of Upton Sinclair's grim The Jungle is that its publication aroused much public sentiment, which then led to federal legislation such as the Pure Food and Drug Act and improvements in working conditions for meat packers and other factory workers. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The purpose was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support. -
Muckraker
raised awareness of social injustices, inequality, corruption and the abuse of political power in order to bring about reform. Got their nickname from Theodore Roosevelt -
Social Gospel
was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. -
Federal Reserve Act
was established to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. -
Clarence Darrow
was a U.S. lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
16th Amendment
the congress had and still has power to collect and make(lay) taxes on the incomes from wherever they wanted to derive. 1789 was original, 1992 it was revised. -
17th Amendment
ratified in 1913, the amendment provided for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years. -
18th Amendment
the amendment that did not prohibit the consumption of alcohol, but rather simply the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
19th Amendment
the amendment provided men and women with equal voting rights.