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Urbanization
During this period in American history workers moved towards manufacturing centers in cities and towns seeking jobs in factories because agricultural jobs became less common. Urbanization in America also driven by the massive influx of unskilled immigrants who traveled to the industrial cities to start new life in America. -
Populism and Progressivism
The populism movement were farmers or those associated with agriculture that believed that industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. The progressivism movement was that they continue their struggle by remaining in the political mainstream. -
Indian Removal
Led by Andrew Jackson, The removal was a forceful segregation of Indians. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation. In their defeat, the Creeks lost 22 million acres of land in southern Georgia and Alabama.The propose of this act was to get rid of as many indians as the can -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the belief that it was the people of Americas mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the reach of North America. They believed that their mission was to expand coast to coast and to own every inch from coast to coast -
Nativism
Nativism got its name from the "Native American" parties of the 1840 In this context "Native" does not mean indigenous or American Indian but rather those who came from the original Thirteen Colonies. And ran off all the real natives -
Third Parties Politics
In 1856, the year the Republican Party was born as a Third Party, Abraham Lincoln out of the new Republican Party was elected President. The Republican Party had been born as a so called “third party” in 1856, as aforementioned, largely in response to the issue of slavery. -
Homestead Act
William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander Knox followed a foreign policy stated as “dollar diplomacy.” The goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order that it would best promote American commercial interests. -
Industrialization
The industrial growth that began in the United States in the 1870's continued steadily up to and through the American Civil War. Still, by the end of the war, the typical American industry was small , but only to get bigger in years to come. -
Susan B Anthony
She voted in the presidential election illegally. She was arrested and tried to fight the charges but she was unseccesful . She ended up being fined $100 ,but a fine she never paid. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a leader in the steel industry. He was an industrialist philanthropist. He established a fund for teachers with a $10million denotation -
Civil Service Reform
Civil Service Reform 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
The Haymarket affair also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot was after a bombing that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
passed by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Jane Addams
Addams co founded the Hull house in Chicago it was one of the first settlements in the united states.She also was a co winner of the nobel peace prize in 1931. Addams was a peace activist -
Political Machines
As the government continued to grow it became the likes for many professional politicians. Some would argue that these politicians were rigged, they would argue that they provided a needed service.
Political Machines were organizations that provided social services and jobs in exchange for votes. -
Ida B Wells
daughter of slaves, Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. Was a journalist, Wells led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States. -
Suffrage
The movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women. The movement wanted to get what were to women basic rights. -
William Jennings Bryan
He attended the 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 -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada during 1896. Gold was discovered there by miners on August 16, 1896 and, when the news reached the states the following year, it started a movement to the mountains to find gold -
Eugene V Debbs
American union leader he was also one of the founding members of the industrial workers of the world. Eugene V Debbs was best known for a socialist party candidate for the -
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Teddy an American statesman and soldier. He served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 through 1909. He also was a governor of New York -
Initiative and Referendum
Started in 1904 it is the three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office, such as impeaching a president for some reason. -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair received fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public chaos that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. -
Muckraker
The name Muckraker was given to US journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in politics and business, term was first used by Theodore Roosevelt. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act enabled in 1906 prevents the manufacture, sale, or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other problems. This act is to keep our country healthy -
Dollar Diplomacy
William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander Knox followed a foreign policy stated as “dollar diplomacy.” The goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order that it would best promote American commercial interests. -
16th Amendments
This amendment exempted income taxes from the requirements of the government regarding direct taxes, after income taxes on rents, dividends, and interest were ruled to be direct taxes. -
17th Amendments
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people for six year and each Senator shall have one vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act was enabled in December 1913 .This Is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and also created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes. -
The 18th Amendments
The Eighteenth Amendment passed in 1912 effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the the production, transport, and sale of alcohol is illegal. -
The Gilded Age
The term for this time period started the 1920's and was derived from Mark Twain's 1873 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
The 19th Amendments
the 19th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman "suffrage". At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote, or work. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States, Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding -
Clarence Darrow
Darrow, a lawyer and the American Civil Liberties Union appealed the case before the Tennessee Supreme Court. John Scopes' conviction was overturned on a technicality. -
Immigration and the American Dream
The term "American Dream" first was used by the American historian James Truslow Adams in his book "The Epic of America" At that time the United States was suffering under the Great Depression. Adams used the term to describe the complex beliefs, religious promises and political and social expectations.
