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Industrealization
The Industrial Revolution was of great importance to the economic development of the United States. -
Indian Removal
This act let the president grant unsettled lands west of Mississippi in exchange for indian lands.Some tribes went peacefully, but many resisted being relocated. -
Manifest Destiny
This was the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided that any adult citizen who headed a family could qualify for a grant of 160 acres of public land by paying a small registration fee and living on the land continuously for five years. -
Urbanization
It is called urbanization when populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. Maybe tall apartment buildings spring up on what had been the outskirts of town, bringing more people there to live and work. -
Gilded Age
the gilded age was when there was, Rapid economic growth generated vast wealth and New products and technologies improved middle-class quality of life. Industrial workers and farmers did not share in the new prosperity, working long hours in dangerous conditions for low pay. -
Civil Service Reform
Was a U.S. Federal law and was enacted in 1883 and established the positions within the Federal Government should be awarded on the basis of merit. -
Haymarket Riot
On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. -
Dawes Act
the Act broke up previous land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservations and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on. -
Populism & Progressivism
Both were based on the peoples dissatisfaction with government and its inability to deal in addressing the problems of the day. The supporters of both these movements had become especially outraged that moneyed special interest groups controlled government, and that the people had no ability to break this control. -
William Jennings Bryan
He electrified the democratic convention with his stirring "Cross of Gold" speech and that helped him get the presidential nomination. -
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, who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Muckraker
This is meaning one who inquires into and publishes scandal allegations of corruption among political and business. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
the pure food and drug act is 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. -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
16th Amendment
Allows congress to levy and collect taxes on income. -
17th Amedment
Requires direct election of senators -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability in the United States through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy. -
Third Parties Politics
This is a party for the votes that failed to outpoll either its two strongest rivals. -
18th Amendment
Prohibits the making,transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages -
19th Amendment
Guarantees suffrage to woman -
Suffrage
It was the right to vote in political elections. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
teapot dome scandal was surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. After President Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921. -
Nativism
This was a policy favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. -
Immigration & the American Dream
Immigrants and Americans thought the American dream was "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth" that is why there were so many immigrants moving to the US
