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Immigration & the American Dream
This is still happening now The American Dream is when immigrants (people that aren't legal in the US) come to American for better economical oppurtunties. -
Indian Removal Act
A removal act that made Indian Tribes along the east of the Mississippi to reloacate to the west of Arkansas and Missouri. -
Manifest Destiny
Was a term used for the belief of people moving Westward from coast to coast for bettter opportunities. -
Susan B Anthony
Susan was part of the suffrage movement and played a big role in helping women fight for their riights -
Clarence Darrow
He represented a railroad company but once his workers went on strike he decided to quit and help defend them since he had a law degree. -
Eugene V. Debbs
He was a socialist leader and a labor organizer. -
Homestead Act
The document was signed by President Abraham Lincoln it was a land grant that could allow citizens to get up to 160 acres of land. -
Haymarket Riot
A riot occured between wealthy business owners and labores. It started of by The McCormick Reaper Company going on strike and started a rally that eventually turned violent. -
Andrew Carnegie
After years of expiernce with oil and railroads Andrew decided to start his own bridge company called "Keystone Bridge Company". -
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Urbanization & Industrialization
Urbanzation was when cities began to grow towards industrial centers. And industralization is the development of industrys on a large scale. -
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Populism
Effected farmers it encouraged poltical actions to protect their businesses wanted the goverement not to own their businesses but the big businesses. -
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Nativism
Natives began to get worried that to many Immigrants were coming to the US and taking their jobs and that they should go back to where they belong. -
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Social Gospel
A reform movement that emphasiszed on the preaching of salvation it focused on preacher trying to get people that were more fortunate to donate to the poor -
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Third Political Parties
Third poltical parties offently did not win but they orginated to allow people to focus on other areas/problems that were inportant by bringing them up. -
Poltical Machines
Political beings controlled by a boss that maintained a lot of influence over the government of urban cities. -
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The Gilded Age
A time period named by Mark Twian that indicated both the fabulos wealth and widesspread corruption of the era. -
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Progressivism
Time when reform to improve life in the industrial age and wanted improve society into a better positive place. -
Civil Service Reform
A reform of labor organizations which represents employees in most agencies of the executive branch of the Federal Government. -
The Dawes Act
The white reformers wanted acclimatize the Native Americans to white culture, which is why the Native Americans were moved 160 acres of land. The Dawes Act failed in only stripping the Native Americans from their land and going against joining American society. -
Jane Addams
Jane and her friend Ellen rented a house in a not so wealthy neighborhood in Chicago and they began a day care center to help to mothers who worked and didn't have enough money for babysitters. -
Initative
That people have the right to propose a new law. -
Referendum
A law passed by the legislature hat can be referenced to the people for approval or veto. -
Recall
A right that people have that they can petition and vote to have an elected official removed from office. -
Ida B. Wells
She bagan her journalist carrer and started writing about the justice people needed and became a major influential journalist. -
William Jennings Bryan
William scored his first great oratorical success with a speech on free wool. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
Migration that was estaminated by 100,000 people wanting to prospect to the Klondike region of north-western Canada in the region of Yukon. -
Muckrakers
Young reporters at the turn of the twentieth century who won this unfavorable moniker from Roosevelt but increased circulations of their magazines. They talked about business conditions, child labor, and other illegal stuff. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt part of the Reupublican party is releected as President of the United States. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton published the book "The Jungle" the purpose of the book was written to explain the harsh working conditions in factories which entually started the reform of fixing working conditions -
Pure Food and Drug Act
One of the first laws that regulating manifacturing of medcines and all types of food, it helped improve stuff that when wrong in the processing and labeling of products. -
16th Amendment
Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
A policy that supported the US investment and political interests abroad. President Woodrow Wilson disavowed the practice but his adminstration undertook comparable acts of intervention. -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state to keep the system stable. -
Fedral Reserve Act
The act that established 12 regional Fedral Reserve Banks and a Fedral Reserve Board done by the President to regular bankingand to create stability. -
18th Amendment
That alcohol should not be sold in the United States -
19th Amendment
Allowed women the right to vote, -
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Suffrage
Earing the right to vote in poltical elections. -
Tea Pott Dome Scandal
Administration scandal where the Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall stoped secret leasing to private oil companies that had oil reserves from the goverment.
