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industrialization
human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. As industrial workers' incomes rise, markets for consumer goods and services of all kinds tend to expand and provide a further stimulus to industrial investment and economic growth. -
susan b. anthony
an american social reformer and womens rights activist who played a piavotal in the suffage of womens rights movement -
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. -
andrew carnegie
a scottish american industrilist. andrew led the expression of the american steel industry. -
manifest destiny
the 19th century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the us throughout the american contents was both justified and inivitual. -
monroe doctrine
Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in The Americas beginning in 1823. ... President James Monroe first stated the doctrine during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress. The term "Monroe Doctrine" itself was coined in 1850. -
eugene v. debs
an american union leader, one of the founder members of the industrial works of the world, and five times the canidate of the socialist party of america for president for the united states. -
clarence darrow
american lawyer, american leader of the civil liberities union.and a prominent advocate for georgist economic reform. -
theodore roosevelt
an american statesman,author,explorer,soldier and naturalist.who served as the 26th president of the united states. -
william jennings bryan
american orator and politionist from nebraska.beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the democratic party, standing three times as the democratic nominee for president for the united states. -
jane addams
known as the mother of "social work", was a pioneer american settlement/activist/reformer,socvial worker,public philiospher,socialoligist.. -
homestead act
igned 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. -
ida b. wells
was an african american journalist,newspaper editer,suffragist,soicalaligist,feminist,georgist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
robber barons
a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich. -
populism
a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite. -
the 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 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's -
upton sinclair
an american writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other who works in seven genres. senclairs work was well known and popular in the first half of the american century, and he won the pulizar prize. -
chinese exclusion act of 1882
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. -
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, 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. -
progressivism
he term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America. Progressivism began as a social movement and grew into a political movement. The early progressives rejected Social Darwinism. -
klondike gold rush
he 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. -
bessemer process
inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), leading to the development of the Bessemer converter. He was knighted in 1879. -
yellow journalism
journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.cartoon about Spanish–American War of 1898 (Independence Seaport Museum). The newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst are both attired as the Yellow Kid comics character of the time, and are competitively claiming ownership of the war. -
social gospel
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 & referendum
the power or ability to begin or to follow through energetically with a plan or task. a beginning or introduce step;an opening move. the right or introduce by which citizens can purpose a law by petition and ensure its submission to the electors. -
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. -
muckraker
one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," popularized 1906 in speech by President Theodore Roosevelt, in reference to "man ... with a Muckrake in his hand" in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1684) who seeks worldly gain by raking filth. -
dollar diplomacy
particularly during President William Howard Taft's term— was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
16th amendment
the congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived without aportionment among the several states,and without r4egaurd to any census or enumeration. -
federal reserve act
The 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 -
17th amendment
amendment modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures. -
18th amendment
the first amendment to impulse a date by which it was to be ratified. if the deadline was not met,the amendment would be disguarded. the ratification of this 18th amendment was completed on january 16th, 1919. -
19th amendment
9th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. -
tea pot 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. Wikipedia -
nativism
the theory or doctrine that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired or learned. -
immigration & the american dream
immigrants is associate with the american dream with oppurtunity. a good job and home ownership. the unitied states offer a less hierachial society that provides more opportunity than many other countries, while allowing immgrants to assume fully american identity. -
recall
is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended -
urbanization
the process of making an area more urban -
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, who receive rewards for their efforts