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Urbanization
the process of making an area more urban with houses and buildings and farmers. it makes places more easy to live but to much urbanization could be bad. -
political machines
is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of businesses -
indian removal
was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west a few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy and a lot of people lost there lives in the battles to move the indians. -
Manifest Destiny
It expressed the belief that it was Americans mission to expand their civilization and institutions across North America. This expansion was progress of liberty and individual economic opportunity as well. -
suffrage
the right to vote in political elections. more people like colored and women wanted the right to vote for what they wanted. -
Immigration and the American Dream
a lot of immigrates wanted to come to american to part of the new begin and that was a dream to a lot of people. to start over and to own land and have there own business. -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln the act encouraged westerns 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. -
Susan B. Anthony
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 -
Jane Addams
known as the mother of Social Work, was a pioneer American settlement activist and reformer. she was also a big leader in the women rights movement -
civil service reform
Signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Haymarket riot
a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. The Haymarket Riot was viewed a setback for the organized labor movement in America, which was fighting for such rights as the eight hour workday. At the same time the men convicted in connection with the riot were viewed by many in the labor movement as martyrs. -
Dawes act
the law allowed for the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. Native Americans registering on a tribal roll were granted land.The new policy focused specifically on breaking up reservations by granting land to individual Native Americans and if a person adopted white clothing and ways and was responsible for his own farm, he would gradually stop being native -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people ever. He proved many jobs all over for many western settlers. He helped build many railroads and other companies. He also be came a Philanthropy -
industrialization
the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. this mainly started when Britain started bring over there machines. -
Ida B. Wells
she was a journalist and also 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 rights. also know as a civil rights leader for african american women -
third parties politics
A third party comes in to help decide something if the other two parties can not decide on something. so theres no fighting between the two parties like republican and democrat. -
Eugene V. Debs
Debs’s union won national prominence when it conducted a successful strike for higher wages against the Great Northern Railway He gained greater renown when he was sentenced to six months in jail for his role in leading the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company strike. He also saw the labour movement as a struggle between classes -
Klondike gold rush
Gold was discovered by local miners, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors. Some became wealthy, but the majority came out with very little. about 100,000 people went there to try in find gold. -
Clarence Darrow
was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. he solved many hard cases that help a lot of people -
initiative and referendum
is three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office -
populism and progressivism
populism was the support for the concerns of ordinary people and progressivism was support for or advocacy of social reform and richer people -
the gilded age
this was a time when americans got really greedy and things started to kinda fall of part because of the but every that we built and did from greed looked nice at the top for not so good under -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an author, soldier, and the 26th President of the United States. he also won a Nobel Peace Prize for his negotiations to end the Russo Japanese War and spearheaded the beginning of construction on the Panama Canal. he also got 200 million acres for national forests for the US. -
muckraker
a muckraker was a person who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders -
Upton Sinclair
writer who wrote nearly one hundred books and other works in several genres and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. also his involvement with socialism led to a writing assignment about the plight of workers in the meatpacking industry, -
pure food and drug act
For preventing the sale, or transportation of bad or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and other stuff -
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes onhowever much money you make without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
William Jennings Bryan
He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver. after helping Woodrow Wilson secure the Democratic presidential nomination for 1912, he served as Wilson’s secretary of state until 1914. In his later years, Bryan campaigned for peace, prohibition and suffrage, and increasingly criticized the teaching of evolution. -
17th Amendments
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1913, providing for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years. -
dollar diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. so to promote the United States commercial interest and economic power abroad by guaranteeing loans made to strategically important foreign countries. -
federal reserve act
is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System. which provided the nation with a more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants -
18th amendments
did not prohibit the consumption of alcohol, but rather simply the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
19th amendments
this amendment gave the right for women to have voice in politics by giving them the right to vote -
tea pot dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal involved national security, big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States. It was the most serious scandal in the country’s history
