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populism
Populism 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. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy is the effort of the United States—particularly over President William Howard Taft—to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
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Industrialization
The Industrial Revolution was of great importance to the economic development of the United States.The Industrial Revolution itself refers to a change from hand and home production to machine and factory. The first industrial revolution was important for the inventions of spinning and weaving machines operated by water power which was eventually replaced by steam. This helped increase America’s growth. However, the industrial revolution truly changed American society and economy into a modern ur -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act is a law that was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. 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. -
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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. -
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Nativism
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrant. -
progressivism
Progressivism is a term that encompasses a wide spectrum of social movements that include environmentalism, labor, agrarianism, anti-poverty, peace, anti-racism, civil rights, women's rights, animal rights, social justice and political ideologies such as anarchism, communism, socialism, social democracy. -
Muckracker
The term muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
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Homestead Act
Homestead Act was a law passed in the 1860s that offered up to 160 acres of public land to any head of a family who paid a registration fee, lived on the land for five years, and cultivated it or built on it. -
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Andrew Carnegie: Steel Magnate
In the early 1870s, Andrew Carnegie co-founded his first steel comapny, near Pittsburgh. Over the next 20yrs, he created a steel empire, by increasing his profits and decreasing the disorganization through ownership of factories, raw materials and transportation infrastructure involved in steel-making. In 1892 he used his savings to form Carnedie Steel Company. -
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Gilded Age
this period in the U.S, is characterized by a greatly expanding economy and the emergence of plutocratic influences in government and society. In the US, a period c 1870 to 1898 (or World War I), which was marked by the growth of industry and wealth which supported materialism and political corruption -
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European immigration
Between 1880 and 1920, a time of rapid industrialization and urbanization, America received more than 20 million immigrants. Beginning in the 1890s, the majority of arrivals were from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. -
Eugene V. Debs
At first a firm propponent of organization of workers by their, seperate crafts, Debs resisted the industrial organization implicit in the efforts of the Knights of Labor and ordered his members to report to work during the knights' strike against the south western railroads. -
Haymarket Riot
Haymarket Riot, also called Haymarket Affair or Haymarket massacre, violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers’ rights. It has been associated with May Day (May 1) since its designation as International Workers’ Day by the Second International in 1889. -
Dawes Act
Dawes Act of 1887 was a federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. -
Third Party Politics
The term third party is used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties (Republican Party and Democratic Party). The term can also refer to independent politicians not affiliated with any party at all and to write-in candidates. -
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for the women suffrage movement in the United States and president of the National American Women Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the write to vote. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan electrified the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley. Bryan 1896 campaiggn marked a long--term shift within the democratic party from a jacksonian commitment to minimal goverenment toward a positive view of goverenment. -
klondike gold rush
A rush of thousands of people in the 1890s toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there.Gold was discovered in British Columbia in the Cassiar districts, in 1873, and miners entered the Yukon region, in 1882. In 1886, coarse gold was discovered after Forty-mile Creek was found, sending shock waves of excitement through the Yukon country. -
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Iniative
n political terminology, the initiative is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. The first state to adopt the initiative was South Dakota in 1898. Since then, 23 other states have included the initiative process in their constitutions, the most recent being Mississippi in 1992. That makes a total of 24 states with an initiative process. -
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Referendum
"Referendum" is a general term which refers to a measure that appears on the ballot. There are two primary types of referenda: the legislative referendum, whereby the Legislature refers a measure to the voters for their approval, and the popular referendum, a measure that appears on the ballot as a result of a voter petition drive. The popular referendum is similar to the initiative in that both are triggered by petitions, but there are important differences. -
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Recall
Recall is a procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office. Recall differs from another method for removing officials from office – impeachment – in that it is a political device while impeachment is a legal process. Impeachment requires the House to bring specific charges and the Senate to act as a jury. In most of the recall states, specific grounds are not required, and the recall of a state official is by an election. Eighteen states -
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Urbanization in the 19th Century
The turn of the 19th century brought us Urbanization. Problems with city life had become abundant, so people began to move out from big cities and settle down in the suburbs to enjoy the peace and quiet while being close to a big city. -
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 (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.Tammany Hall, or simply Tammany, was the name given to a powerful political machine that essentially ran New York City throughout much of the 19th century. -
Theodore Roosevelt's Unexpected Path to the White House
Teddy Roosevelt was sworn in as the United States 26th President after the recent President ,William Mckinley, died from being shot 8 days before. Teddy was only 42yrs when he become president, he was the youngest president in the nations history, and his youth as well endurance immediatly transformed the public image of the presidency. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair earned his money by writing journalistic pieces.An assignment on meat-packing plants led to his bestselleing novel The Jungle. He was unable to find a publisher so he published his book himself.The books protrayal of labor abuses and unsanitary conditions led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was a law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was the best known defense lawyer in Chicago after he successfully defended Bill Haywood and other leaders of the Westeren Federation of Miners, are accused for the bombing-assaination of the former govener of idaho. -
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Ida B. Wells
In 1909 Ida B. Wells became one of the founders of the NAACP. In 1913 Wells established the first black women's suffrage club, called the Alpha Suffrage Club. That same year she marched in a suffrage parade in Washington DC and met with president McKinley about a lynching in South Carolina. -
16th Amendment
The 16th Amendment allows Congress to tariff an income tax without basing it on population or dividing it up among the states. When the Sixteenth Amendment was adopted, the federal government was given more political power to set up the current form of taxation. -
17th Amendement
The Seventeenth Amendment changed the way United States senators were elected. Formerly elected to office by state legislatures, the Seventeenth Amendment provided for a constitutional mandate that United States senators had to be elected by the popular vote of the citizens of each state. -
Federal Reserve Act
The 1913 U.S. legislation that created the current Federal Reserve System. 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. The Federal Reserve Act is perhaps one of the most influential laws concerning the U.S. financial system. -
Jane Addams
Jan Addams was disturbed by President Woodrow Wilison's call to increase milatary preparedness, so Addams wrote to the president warning him of the potential dangers of preparing the country to enter the 1st World War. -
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Social gospel
Social gospel was a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life. -
19th Amendment
During this year Congress passed the amendment that granted women the right to vote. For over one hundred years, women and those that sympathized with the suffrage movement had been fighting for change that would give everyone a say in how the United States should be governed. -
18th Amendment
The purpose and effect of this Amendment was to prohibit the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcoholic beverages. While the 18th Amendment fully prohibited the import, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages, it did not ban the possession or consumption of it by private citizens. -
The American Dream
The American Dream originated in the early days of the American settlement, with the mostly poor immigrants searching for opportunities. In The Great Gatsby the American Dream plays a big role. In it you can see what happened to it during the 1920s. The values had totally changed, instead of striving for equality, they just wanted to get as rich as they could. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome scandal was a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration -
Civil Service Reform
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) applies to labor organizations which represents employees in most agencies of the executive branch of the Federal Government. Civil Service Reform is the substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office. -
Suffrage
Suffrage is the right to vote, especially in a political election.