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muckraker
was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines. -
urbaniation
Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. -
Bessemer Process
A steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort. -
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Susan B. Anthony
A woman's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the woman's suffrage movement. -
monroe doctrine
A principle of US policy, originated by President James monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americans is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Wrote the gospel of wealth, describes the responsibility of philanthropy of the self made rich. Philanthropy is the desire to promote the welfare of others. -
manifest destiny
The belief that it was justified and right for americans to expand westward -
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Eugene v debs
One of the founding fathers of the workers of the world association. -
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Clarence Darrow
advocate for Georgist economic reform. Georgism is the economic belief that all resources from the land should belong equally to everyone. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of the United States. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th -
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William Jennings Bryan
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 created the Hullhouse in 1889, it housed recently arrived European immigrants. -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the 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
A journalist who talked about lynching in the south. supported woman's suffrage. -
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Upton Sinclair
Wrote over 100 books including one that exposed the poor conditions of meat packaging facilities, and caused the pure food and drug act. -
Political Machines
A political machine is a political 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. -
Chinese exclusion act
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism. The populist movement started during the 1880's. Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. Farmers become united to protect their interests. -
Haymarket riot
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes act
The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887), adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
klondike rush
The Klondike Gold Rush [n 1] 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. -
gilded age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 30s which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
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 liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
16th amendment
The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, from whatever source derived without apportionment among the several states and regard to any census or enumeration. -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
17th amendment
When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. -
federal reserve act
is 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
Declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
19th amendment
Constitution granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. -
teapot dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
immigration and american dream
The american dream was to live a good life have a good job and own a house.while allowing immigrants to assume a fully american identity -
social gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. -
nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Industrialization
is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. -
robber barons
term "robber baron" contrasted with the term "captain of industry," which described industrialists who also benefitted society. Nineteenth-century robber barons included J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W. Mellon, and John D. Rockefeller. -
indian removal
a policy of the United States government in the 19th century whereby Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River, thereafter known as Indian Territory. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. Proponents of an initiative, referendum, or recall effort must apply for an official petition serial number from the Town Clerk.