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Suffrage
nearly 50 years of progress afforded women advancement in property rights, employment and educational opportunities, divorce and child custody laws, and increased social freedoms. -
Susan B, Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker who was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Indian Removal
It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Manifest Destiny
John L. O'Sullivan coined the term "manifest destiny" in reference to a growing conviction that the United States was preordained by God to expand throughout North America and exercise hegemony over its neighbors. -
clarance darrow
Clarence Darrow was a lawyer who worked as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials. He was also a public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous writer. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was a liberal leader and magnetic orator who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency. -
Homestead act
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States -
Political machines
Political machine, in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
urbanization & industrialization
the United States became the world’s foremost industrial nation. -
social gospel
The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war. -
The Gilded Age
satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. *invented the date but the year is right -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an activist writer whose works often uncovered social injustices, such as in The Jungle and Boston. -
Nativism
Nativism, in general, refers to a policy or belief that protects or favors the interest of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants. -
populism & progressivism
is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions (such as fears) of the general people, especially contrasting those interests with the interests of the elite. -
theodore (teddy) Roosevelt
A New York governor who became the 26th U.S. president, Theodore Roosevelt is remembered for his foreign policy, corporate reforms and ecological preservation. -
Haymarket Riot
the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration -
the dawes act
An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations -
Muckraker
Nativism, in general, refers to a policy or belief that protects or favors the interest of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams co-founded one of the first settlements in the United States, the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, in 1889, and was named a co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. She was also served as the first female president of the National Conference of Social Work, established the National Federation of Settlements and served as president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. -
andrew carnegie
Andrew owned a Carnegie Steel Corporation, the largest of its kind in the world. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs was a labor organizer and the Socialist Party's candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920. -
Third parties politics
is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals (or, in the context of an impending election, is considered highly unlikely to do so). The distinction is particularly significant in two-party systems. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Yukon-area Indians Skookum Jim Mason and Tagish Charlie, along with Seattleite George Carmack found gold in Rabbit Creek -
recall
Recall is a procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office. -
Pure food and drug act
Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors. -
referendum
Senate Elections- To enable elections for both Houses to be held concurrently -
Dollar Diplomacy
Taft shared the view held by Knox, a corporate lawyer who had founded the giant conglomerate U.S. Steel, that the goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order abroad that would best promote American commercial interests. -
initiative
is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote (plebiscite). -
16th amendment
allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
17th amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the United States. -
18th amendment
The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. -
19th amenment
guarantees all American women the right to vote -
Teapot Dome scandal
After President Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome (Wyoming) reserves. -
immigration & the american dream
life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth -i made up the date because it only had the year :/ -
civil service reform
reformed the civil service of the United States federal government, partly in response to the Watergate scandal.
