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Industrialization
The industrial revolution brought about a better means of producing goods and brought about railroads. -
Suffrage
Suffrage allowed people to vote on political leaders -
Political Machines
Political machines are groups that heavily request support for their cause and in exchange, they get rewarded. -
Nativism
Nativism is a policy that favors natives of a particular country over immigrants. This policy had sprouted when an influx of Catholic Irish immigrants started to arrive to the United States. -
Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act was signed by President Andrew Jackson in order to relocate Native Americans to the West. -
Manifest Destiny
The belief that American expansion into the West was justified and a part of America's fate. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act encouraged Manifest Destiny by granting land to settlers for $10. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony advocated for women's rights and had started the National Woman Suffrage Association to help pass the 19th amendment. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an age of rapid economic growth for the United States and saw a major pay increase for all workers. There was also an increase of European immigrants due to the economy. -
Andrew Carneige
Andrew Carneige was an American steel industrialist who donated his fortunes to various scientific, cultural, and educational institutions. -
Civil Service Reform
The Civil Service Reform Act was passed in response to the Watergate Scandal. The point of the Civil Service Reform was to administer the civil service of the American government. -
Haymarket Riot
The riot was originally a peaceful rally that protested against long work days and also protested for workers that had been killed by the police. During the rally, a person threw a stick of dynamite at the police and had turned the rally into a riot. Police had begun to shoot the crowd and had killed 4 citizens. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act divvied up land to Native American families and stated that they had to be assimilated into American culture. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams is frequently called the "Mother of Social Work" and was a pioneer American activist and was a leader for women's suffrage. She also founded the Hull House, which was used to welcome recent European immigrants. -
Populism and Progressivism
Progressivism is the belief that the country should advance through socio-economic and political reforms. Populism believed that the government should focus on the people and work its way up. The movement started from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was a daughter of a slave and journalist. She had led a movement against the practice of lynching in the 1890's. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings was an American Orator who is best known for his "Cross of Gold" speech. In the speech, he expressed his support for bimetallism. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration of about 100,000 prospectors to the Yukon Territory in pursuit of gold. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest man to be a US President and was the one who created and advocated the "big stick policy". The big stick policy was a foreign policy that supported international negotiations with power behind it. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene is one of the best known socialist workers in America and was one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed to monitor and regulate the quality of food and drugs. -
Muckraker
A muckraker is a term that refers to a person who publishes allegations of corruption towards certain politicians and businesses. The term was popularized in one of Theodore Roosevelt's speeches. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair wrote a novel called "The Jungle" and had exposed the horrible working conditions in the meat industry. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy was a term that describes America's foreign policy towards Latin America and East Asia. The US would make loans to foreign countries in order to further its economic power. -
Initiative and Referendum
Initiative and referendum is the power of voters to propose a repeal to remove an elected official from their position. California was the first state to ratify initiative and referendum in 1911. -
16th Amendment
The 16th amendment allowed the US government to impose and collect taxes on income for citizens in the US. -
17th amendment
The 17th amendment made it so that the US Senate would be made up of at least 2 Senators from each State. It also set that the Senators would only have a term of 2 years. The 17th amendment allowed citizens to vote for Senators to represent them. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System and gave it the authority to give Federal Notes. -
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment made it so that all sale, consumption, and possession of alcoholic drinks were illegal. This amendment initiated a period in America called the Prohibition. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment states that voting rights won't ever be infringed on due to sex. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer and was a leader of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was a defense attorney in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. -
Immigrants and the American Dream
The "American Dream" is a term most often related to opportunities that can be found when living in America. The "American Dream" is also associated with immigrants who came to the US because of that belief. The term was created by James Truslow Adams. -
Urbanization
Due to Industrialization, more and more people moved from rural to urban cities. This is called Urbanization and had taken place in the United States from the 1910's to the 1950's -
Third Parties Politics
Third Parties Politics is whenever there is a third party that is trying to contend with other parties that greatly surpass the third party.
