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Muckraker
A muckraker means "one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," -
Indian Removal
A big faction of Indians were killed by the US force. -
Susan B Anthony
An american right activist. She played a big role in women's suffrage -
Andrew Carnegie
Led the American Steel industry. Very rich back then, one of the richest people ever. -
Eugene V. Debs
American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial workers.He founded the socialist party of America. -
Clarence Darrow
An american lawyer, leading member of American civil liberties union. Advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
William Jennings Bryan
American orator and politician from Nebraska. In 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Jane Addams
a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Ida B Wells
A black journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Homestead Act
An act that opened up settlement in the Western United States. -
Manifest Destiny
When settlers expand across North America for a better life, and discover more things. (money, land gold) -
Gilded Age
The Gilded age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. -
Upton Sinclair
An American writer who wrote nearly one hundred books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
First law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. -
Haymarket Riot
The aftermath of a bombing that happened at a labor demonstration,In Haymarket square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
Act allowed the president of the United states to survey american indians. -
Urbanization
the process of making an area more urban. By the moving of more people. -
Populism
anything that mediates the relation between the people and their leader or government. -
Yellow Journalism
A type of journalism that presents little or no researched news. -
Bessemer Process
The process for a mass production of steel. -
Progressivism
This is the support of social reform. -
Initiative & Referendum
Initiatives and referendums allow citizens of many U.S. states to place new legislation on a popular ballot -
Political Machines
the process of initiatives and referendums allow citizens of many U.S. states to place new legislation on a popular ballot -
Recall
When a product has to be called back to the manufacturer to check it out. -
Nativism
Nativism is the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
industrialization
Development of countries. -
Robber Barons
American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich. -
The Klondike Gold Rush
This was a rush to the new states to find gold. More so in the West. -
Immigration and american dream
Immigrants is associate the American dream with opportunity, a good job and home ownership. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was a American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
Pure food and drug act
An act preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs. -
Dollar Diplomacy
A form of 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. -
Federal Reserve Act
The act that created the federal reserve system. -
16th Amendments
Allows congress to levy an income tax without making it go to all the states. -
17th amendments
This allows voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol. -
Social Gospel
This was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
This was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922. -
19th Amendments
The right that no citizen should be denied the right to vote by sex. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism.
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