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Susan B Anthony
She became known for her work as a women’s rights advocate, abolitionist, and suffragist. When she was 17 she was already collecting anti-slavery petitions. Most of her life was spent by speaking about equal rights around the country. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist that well known for expanding the steel industry in America. He was also a philanthropist, which meant that he gave money for good causes. He founded to an organization that led to scientific research. Along with being a philanthropist, he wrote a book dedicated to the upper class of the importance of being a philanthropist. -
Manifest Destiny
The Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. It was originated in the 1840s. It was, O’Sullivan claimed, ‘our manifest destiny to overspread. It helped fuel western settlement. -
Eugene V Debs
Debs began work in the town’s railroad shops at the age of 15. He joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1874 and rose rapidly in the union. He was elected to the Indiana Legislature, serving one term. -
Eugene V Debs
Debs began work in the town’s railroad shops at the age of 15. He joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1874 and rose rapidly in the union. He was elected to the Indiana Legislature, serving one term. -
Clarence Darrow
He was a lawyer, public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous writer. He moved to Chicago in 1887 and attempted to free the anarchists charged in the Haymarket Riot. In 1894 he defended Eugene V. Debs, arrested on a federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States after the assassination of William McKinley. He is well known for conserving about 200 acres of land for forests, reserves and natural refuges. Also he was awarded with a nobel peace prize. -
William Jennings Bryan
Giving voice to their values and protests, Bryan advocated measures which he believed would give the people more direct control of the government and would allow the common man more economic advantages. He won a seat in Congress in 1890 and was reelected in 1892. He helped to obtain passage of domestic legislation, most notably the Federal Reserve Act. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She worked many years to maintain peace between arguments that great powers had. She also worked to help the poor and to stop child labor. Lastly, she worked in the Hull House, which helped immigrants. -
Homestead Act
It was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee. -
Ida B. Wells
When she was 16 both of her parents died from Yellow Fever. She had to work as a teacher to be able to take care of her brothers and sister. She had her own newspaper called the Free Speech where she wrote about racial segregation and discrimination. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 30s and was derived from writer Mark Twain’s 1873 The Gilded Age. A tail of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
Upton Sinclair
He left the Socialist Party to support President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924. Later, he returned to the socialist camp when Wilson supported intervention in the Soviet Union. In 1993 Sinclair was persuade to campaign seriously for governor of California. -
Upton Sinclair
He left the Socialist Party to support President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924. Later, he returned to the socialist camp when Wilson supported intervention in the Soviet Union. In 1993 Sinclair was persuade to campaign seriously for governor of California. -
Populism & Progressivism
The populist movement started during the 1880s. Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. They even created a major political party. -
Political Machines
The political machines are a political organization which means a boss or any small thin. Commanded the supporters of a corporation. They received some type of rewards for their some type of tribulation toward the project. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers -
Haymarket Riot
This also had a different/similar name it was called haymaker massacre. It was the aftermath of a bombing that had happened at a labor demonstration. This had happened on May 4, 1886 at haymarket square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
The different name for this was general allotment act congress adopted this in 1887. This let the president to look at american indian land and divide it. So he can divide the indians then the president during that time sold the other land. -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. During its heyday in the late 19th century it was one of many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, leading to the acquisition of overseas territory by the United States. -
Klondlike Gold Rush
A lot of people had immigrated to this place up to an estimated 100,000 prospectors. It was in the klondike region of yukon in north western canada. The date was 1896-1899 when the klondike gold rush had happened. -
Klondlike Gold Rush
A lot of people had immigrated to this place up to an estimated 100,000 prospectors. It was in the klondike region of yukon in north western canada. The date was 1896-1899 when the klondike gold rush had happened. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. It was proposed on July 12th, 1909. William H. Taft was the President of the United States during the ratification of the 16th Amendment. -
Dollar Diplomacy
It was in 1909 to 1913 by the president at this time he was William Howard Taft. It was a use of the country’s financial power to extend its international influence. It was also by this secretary of state knox he was a lawyer, he also found the conglomerate U.S. steel. -
18th Amendment
This controversial amendment was proposed in Congress on December 18, 1917, and ratified on January 16, 1919. The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbade in all territories within its jurisdiction making, selling, or transporting “intoxicating liquors” in the United States. Thirteen of 31 states had outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcohol by 1855. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922 during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is an act of congress that created and established the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the United States. -
Immigration and the American Dream
The immigration and the american dream means it is a national ethos of the U.S. The only way you can be happy in the U.S. is to work hard and then you will be blessed on what you receive. There’s a motto that they’ll give you freedom to do anything you want, because the U.S. allows you to be free. People today still believe that they can come to America to live the American Dream. -
Urbanization
It’s a population shift from rural to urban areas. The gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas. The which each society to the change.
