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Muckraker
People like Steffens were the original inspiration for the term “muckraker.” Writing for the New York Evening Post and McClure's in the very early part of the 20th Century -
Industrialization
The start of the industrial revolution is often held to begin around 1760-80 -
Urbanization
The early United States was predominately rural. According to the 1790 census, 95 percent of the population lived in the countryside. The 5 percent of Americans living in urban areas (places with more than 2,500 persons) lived mostly in small villages. -
Suffrage
Suffragist. Susan B. Anthony, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, began working to establish women's right to vote in the mid-1800s. -
Political Machines
as, "in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state". -
Indian Removal
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century -
Third Parties Politics
In electoral politics, a third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals -
Homestead Act
encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
was signed by Grover Cleveland in 1887 with the intention of assimilating Native Americans into the United States. -
Populism
politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the Middle West and South that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899 -
Initiative & Referendum
It allowed many natives to place a new legislation. -
The Klondike Gold Rush
Dawson City was founded at the meeting of the Klondike and the Yukon River, and had a population of 5,000 by the end of the year and by the summer of 1898 the population would grow to 30,000 people -
Eugene V. Debbs
Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World -
Theodore Roosevelt
he served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Dollar Diplomacy
was 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 -
16th Amendment
The 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
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
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. -
18th Amendment
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. -
Nativism
The second Ku Klux Klan, which flourished in the U.S. in the 1920s, used strong nativist rhetoric, but the Catholics led a counterattack. -
19th Amendment
It was ratified on August 18, 1920 after a long struggle known as the women's suffrage movement. It was first drafted in 1878 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 30 years after the Seneca Falls Convention, where the idea of women's suffrage gained prominence in the United States. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Clarence Darrow
was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform -
Upton Sinclair
He was an american writer in 1943 -
Immigration & the American Dream
Immigrants is associate the American dream with opportunity, a good job and home ownership. The United States offers a less hierarchical society -
Civil Service Reform
is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
William Jennings Bryan
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
was an advocate of immigrants, the poor, women, and peace. Author of numerous articles and books, she founded the first settlement house in the United States.
