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indian removal act
The Indian Removal Act is a law that was passed by Congress. The act was supported by indians and allowed them the to have access to more lands. -
INdustrailization
The process in which a society or country transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services. -
Manifest Destiny
the belief or doctrine, 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. -
Susan B. Anthony
In 1856 Susan becomes agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Susan conducts anti-slavery campaign from Buffalo to Albany -
Homestead Act
a special act of Congress in 1862 that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms. -
The Gilded Age
an era of fast economic growth, mostly in the North and West. American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe. -
populism
This is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions of the general people, especially contrasting those interests with the interests of the elite. -
Civil Service Reform
The Civil Service 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. -
HayMarket Riot
A rally at Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works. -
Nativism
Nativism is a policy or practice of preserving or reviving an indigenous culture. -
Third Parties Politics
A third party is a political party organized as opposition to the existing parties in a two-party system. -
progressivism
Progressivism is a broad philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition. -
The Dawes Act
It was designed to encourage the breakup of the tribes and promote the assimilation of Indians into American Society. It will be the major Indian policy until the 1930s. Dawes' goal was to create independent farmers out of Indians and give them land and the tools for citizenship. -
William Jennings Bryan
In 1891 elected U.S. Congressman from Nebraska. He was Re-elected in 1893. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Suffrage
Suffrage is the right to vote in political elections. Example the 19th amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote womens suffrage. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting in the Klondike near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered in the late 19th century. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. -
Muckracker
a brave cadre of reporters exposed injustices so grave they made the blood of the average American run cold. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Clarence Darrow
In 1905 Darrow helped to establish the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. Its stated purpose was to "throw light on the world-wide movement of industrial democracy known as socialism." -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr., was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
A United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States -
16th Amendment
Gives Congress the power to collect taxes on income without apportioning it among the states -
Dollar Diplomacy
To ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending American commercial and financial interests there. Mostly to encourage the investment of U.S. capital in foreign countries. -
Federal Reserve Act
This is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America. The Federal Reserve Act created a system of private and public entities. -
17th Amendment
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1913, providing for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years. -
18th Amendment
prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. Upon ratification of the amendment by the states. -
Teapot dome
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Urbanization
is a word for becoming more like a city. When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. -
19th Amendment
WOMENS RIGHT TO VOTE -
Social Gospel
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. -
Political Machines
A political machine is a group that controls the activities of a political party. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
American Dream
the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative -
Referendum
the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection. -
Initiative
An initiative means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote. -
recall
A recall is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term has ended.
