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Urbanization
Urbanization is when the population of a place increases.When the population increases too much, people like farmers have to leave and work in the cities.Urbanization is linked to industrialization and modernization. -
Political Machines
Political machines is a political organization.There is a boss or small group that commands the support of corps and businesses.They receive awards for their efforts. -
Industrialization
Industrialization is the process where the economy is being transformed.Industrialization expanded the economy.People started to come up with new inventions. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony helped with the woman's suffrage association. Susan partnered up with Elizabeth Cady to help with the reform.Susan became the a leading figure for women to help with the women's voting rights. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the motivation the people had to move west.People believed it to mean God is telling them to.Many people like Mormons also moved west to exercise their religion. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president.Roosevelt started the Roosevelt association.This association protected 230 million acres of land,150 national forests,51 federal bird reservations,15 national parks and 18 national monuments. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie helped the steel industry with a fortune.He used to work in a cotton factory as a younger boy.When working he became the position to divide the Pennsylvania railroad. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a progressive reformer.She tried to improve the social conditions of immigrates.Addams was the first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. -
Homestead Act
Homestead act is when Abraham Lincoln encouraged people to move west.The people that moved were offered 160 acres of land.The people were demanded to improve the land within 5 years to keep land for free. -
The Gilded Age
The gilded age is a term by Mark Twain.This term means wealth. The gilded age is a time period from when Mark wrote the gilded age. -
Haymarket Riot
Haymarket riot is also known as Haymarket massacre.There was a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration.This was a labor protest that turned into a massacre when someone threw bomb at police. -
Dawes Act
Dawes act is the act to turn indians into farmers.The president set this law up to survey indian tribal land.They wanted to divide the land into allotments for the indians. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells is an african american women who is a journalist.She led an anti lynching protest.Ida was also the first african women in the women's suffrage association. -
Populism and Progressivism
Progressivism is based on the idea that the government can be used for better good.Populism is a group of farmers and laborers. They made a political group called the peoples party.Both groups wanted reform. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Debs was the president of the railway union.The union helped with higher wages against Northern railway.He went to jail for playing a role in leading the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company strike. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Bryan ran for a democratic president.William lost the election to a republican named William McKinley.William Bryan was an attorney for the Monkey trial. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The klondike gold rush was an attempt to have people travel to klondike region to find gold.Some minors become wealthy.After gold was discovered in Nome there was an exodus in Klondike. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Pure food and drug act is a law passed to inspect meat products.This law began FDA, food and drug administration.This become known due to the education of muckrakers and researches. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy is a term by president William Taft.The term means a form of american foreign policy. The policy is to further the aims of latin american and east Asia to use economic power by loans. -
16th Amendment
The 16th amendment gives the congress the right to collect taxes for income.Income taxes is important to have.It helps with the army,build roads and bridges. -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment is set so people can elect their senator.This amendment is important today. It strengths the bond between citizens and federal government. -
Federal Reserve Act
The congress made this act to establish a better federal system.This system is to be safer and not convenient for people finically.The federal reserve notes were called the U.S. dollar. -
Federal Reserve Act
The congress made this act to establish a better federal system.This system is to be safer and not convenient for people finically.The federal reserve notes were called the U.S. dollar. -
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment prohibited the use or sell alcohol.The people refused to obey this law.Men had protests. -
19th Amendment
This amendment was made to give women the right to vote.It took more than 60 years to ratify this amendment.Elizabeth Cady and Susan Anthony were the women that helped make this amendment happen. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The tea pot dome scandal was for oil to be reserved.This happened around the time president Harding was the president.This oil reservation was called The Tea Pot dome scandal because it was in Teapot dome. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow is a famous criminal lawyer.He has worked on a case called Monkey Trial.Clarence made William Bryan look foolish. -
Civil Service Reform
Civil service is when congress took action to protect ethical politicians.The congress created standards for the political service.There was also a civil service test for the people to take seeking a job in government. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was a political writer.Sinclair was the most known muckrakers,which means his is known as a reformed minded journalist. His book The Jungle helped improve work conditions in meat industries. -
Immigration and the American Dream
The immigrants in the U.S. have a different definition in the American dream compared to other immigrants in other places.The U.S. immigrants define the American dream as being able to have a job,opportunity,and to be safe from war.
