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Susan B. Anthony
A reformer of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, known especially for her work with women's suffrage. -
Monroe Doctrine
A U.S. policy by President James Monroe that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the U.S is hostile act against the US. -
Indian Removal
Was a policy of the United States government where by native americans were forcibly removed from their homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River. -
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Andrew Carnegie
An American industrial leader. Carnegie immigrated to the United States from Scotland without money and made millions in the steel industry. -
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Industrialism
A term meaning social or economic system built on manufacturing industries. -
Manifest Destiny
The belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
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Eugene V. Debs
A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Debs was five times the presidential candidate of the Socialist party. He was imprisoned in the 1890s for illegally encouraging a railway strike. -
Bessemer Process
A steel-making process in which carbon, silicon, and others are removed from molten iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a tilting retort. -
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Clarence Darrow
Was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was among the first attorneys to be called a labor lawyer. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt was president from 1901 to 1909. He became governor of New York in 1899, soon after leading a group of volunteer cavalrymen, the Rough Riders, in the Spanish-American War. -
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Immigration & the American Dream
Rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society -
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William Jennings Bryan
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. -
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Jane Addams
Was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She created the first settlement house in the United States, Chicago's Hull House. -
Homestead Act
The government provided settlers 160 acres of public land in exchange, homesteaders paid a small fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving the land. -
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Ida B. Wells
Was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
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The Gilded Age
Is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 30s. -
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Urbanization
Is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. -
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Upton Sinclair
American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer, whose works reflect socialistic views. He gained public notoriety in 1906 with his novel The Jungle. -
Populism & Progressivism
Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers -
Political Machines
An organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
A law restricting immigration into the United States. The act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882. -
Haymarket Riot
It was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. Also known as the Haymarket massacre. -
Dawes Act
Was authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Yellow Journalism
Was a form of journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration about others. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
Was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Are three powers reserved to enable the voters by petition to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office -
Robber Barons
A metaphor of social criticism originally applied to American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich. -
Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. -
Muckraker
One who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders, from a speech in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Used for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic and for other purposes. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Is the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence on other countries. -
16th Amendment
Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th Amendment
Established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
Federal Reserve Act
Congress that created and established the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue notes. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
19th Amendment
Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the power of President Warren G. Harding.
