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Industrialization
Large-scale manufacturing, advanced technology, and other things that boosted the economy took place. A lot of inventions, like the lightbulb, were created during this time. It also opened the workforce greater for women. -
Urbanization
great amount of people moving to the city due to industrialization -
Robber Barons
person who has become rich through corrupt and immoral business practices. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a important in the women's suffrage movement -
Monroe Doctrine
because the United States and Britain were worries over the possibility of European colonial expansion in the Americas and Britain feared that Spain would try to reclaim their former colonies
this policy, by President Monroe in 1823, stated that the U.S. opposed further European colonization and interference with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere. -
Indian Removal
Andrew Jackson and Congress passed this act. It removed Indians from the lands East of the Mississippi River. The plan was finished by moving the Indians to what is now Oklahoma, which was the worst land yet. -
Andrew Carnegie
He was a Scottish-American industrialist that led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Nativism
Nativism favored inhabitant rather than immigrants. they believed immigrants stole jobs from real americans and brought crime and diseases. -
Manifest Destiny
belief that the US should expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. They didn't care who already inhabited the land but took it because they thought God gave them the right. -
Bessemer Process
was developed by Henry Bessemer around the 1850s. It was a cheap and efficient process for making steel -
Recall
a recall election is a procedure where voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote initiated when enough voters sign a petition. Only two governors have ever been successfully recalled. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Clarence Darrow
He was a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and an advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was an American author, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 -
William Jennings Bryan
He was an American politician from that in the beginning of 1896 was emerged as a powerful person in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Jane Addams
Known as the mother of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, and author, that lead women's suffrage and world peace. -
Homestead Act
This was passed by Abraham Lincoln and encouraged western migration. It gave settlers 160 acres of land. The people had to pay a small fee and live there 5 years in order to own the land. -
Ida B. Wells
She was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, feminist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
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The Gilded Age
The time between the Civil War and World War I during which the US population and economy grew fast. There was a lot of political corruption and financial misusing and wealthy people lived very luxurious lives. -
Upton Sinclair
was an American writer who wrote nearly one hundred books and other works. -
Political Machines
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. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Congress passed this act to prohibit Chinese immigration. It lasted until 1943. Americans believed they were stealing their jobs. -
Haymarket Riot
People protested because they wanted an 8-hour work day. The protest then turned into a riot and a bomb was thrown. 7 policemen and 8 innocent German immigrants died. This made people loose empathy for the laborers, -
Dawes Act
This broke up Native American reservations and gave land to individual Native Americans. They used 160 acres for farming and 80 acres for grazing. -
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Progressivism
It was a movement in the late 1800s to increase democracy in America by control the power of the corporation. Its goal was to end corruption in government and business, and worked to bring equal rights for women and other minority groups. -
populism
a confrontational approach that may be expressed in various ways, ranging from a reasoning technique to a political strategy to a political movement -
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Klondike Gold Rush
about 100,000 people went to Canada to search for gold. the majority arrived when the best gold fields were claimed. it ended in 1899 when gold was discovered in Nome. -
Yellow Journalism
Newspaper stories that changed what was really going on to make it appealing to the public. It was used to increase the number of people reading and buying the paper. -
Initiative and Referendum
referendum, and recall are powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
Social Gospel
this was a religious movement that happened in the US in the late nineteenth century with the goal of making the Christian churches responsive to social problems like poverty and prostitution. -
Muckraker
they were journalists that wrote about injustices and exposed the bad things society did and corruption. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This was passed while Roosevelt was in office. It was a US federal law that allowed federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. It also marked the beginning of the FDA. -
Dollar Diplomacy
President Willian Howard Taft started the policy that would force Latin American nations to become dependent on the dollar to prevent European intervention. the diplomacy wished to remove any European intervention by managing the financial affairs of countries whose economics were "messed up" by american standards. -
Federal Reserve Act
this created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States that issued what is now known as US dollars. -
16th Amendement
Stated that congress had the right to collect taxes on income. -
17th Amendment
This allowed direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures. It was first used in special elections in Maryland November 1913 but was used nationwide November 1914 -
18th Amendement
This prohibited alcoholic beverages within the US. They were only allowed for medical or religious reasons. -
19th Amendment
This gave women a right to vote. It is known as woman suffrage. Women gained this right after the women's rights movement. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, was bribed to allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome Wyoming. -
Immigration and the American Dream
The American Dream is idea in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success. People immigrated to the us in the search of it.
