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Susan B. Anthony
Born February 15, 1820 – died March 13, 1906 Susan was a women's rights activist, Abolitionist, Educational Reformer, Labor Activist, Temperance Worker, Suffragist, Women's Rights Campaigner -
Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. Immigration and The American Dream -
Clarence Darrow
Born April 18, 1857 - Died March 13, 1938 an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was among the first attorneys to be called a "labor lawyer." He also was known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb, and John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial. Early days. -
Ida B. Wells
born July 16, 1862 died in 1931 Ida B. Wells was a A journalist, Wells led 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 justice. -
Urbanization
When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. -
Andrew Carnegie
In 1875, Andrew opens the very first steel plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The plant was formed 1892 and, sold in 1901 in one of the largest ever business transactions of the early 20th century. This made Andrew one of the richest men in history. -
Populism and Progressivism
The populist movement started during the 1880's. Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. Farmers become united to protect their interests. They even created a major political party. -
Jane Addams
- Winning worldwide recognition in the first third of the 20th century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist. Her father was a politician, and served for 16 years in senate.
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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. -
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. -
William Jennings Bryan
(March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States (1896, 1900, and 1908). -
Yellow Journalism
or the yellow press, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. -
Eugene V. Debs
(born November 5, 1855, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.—died October 20, 1926, Elmhurst, Illinois) labour organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920 -
Theodore Roosevelt
1901, not quite 43 Roosevelt becomes the youngest president in the nation's history, going into office after william mckinley's assassination. Bringing a new energy to the white house. He set aside about 200 million acres for national forests, reserves and wildlife refuges during his presidency. Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize for his negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese War -
Dollar Diplomacy
particularly during President William Howard Taft's term— was a form against American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
16th Amendment
February 3, 1913 allows the federal (United States) government to levy (collect) an income tax from all Americans. Income tax allows for the federal government to keep an army, build roads and bridges, enforce laws and carry out other important duties. -
18th Amendment
January 16th, 1919 established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
Upton Sinclair
Born in 1978, Sinclair wrote over 100 books, he was involved in socialism and led him to writing writing assignment about the plight of workers in the meatpacking industry, eventually resulting in the best-selling novel The Jungle.