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Urbanization
which was fueled by the Industrial Revolution. During this period in American history workers moved towards manufacturing centers in cities and towns seeking jobs in factories as agricultural jobs became less common. Urbanization in America was also driven by the massive influx of unskilled immigrants who also traveled to the industrial cities to start their new life in America, the land of opportunity. -
Populism & Progressivism
The populism movement was farmers or those associated with agriculture believed that industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. The progressivism movement was that they continue their struggle by remaining in the political mainstream. -
Indian Removal
Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful segregated of Indians. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation. In their defeat, the Creeks lost 22 million acres of land in southern Georgia and Alabama. -
Manifest Destiny
The term manifest destiny expressed the belief that it was Americans’ mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the reach of North America. -
Nativism
Nativism gained its name from the "Native American" parties of the 1840 In this context "Native" does not mean indigenous or American Indian but rather those who came from the original Thirteen Colonies. -
Third Parties Politics
In 1856, the year the Republican Party was born as a Third Party Abraham Lincoln of the new Republican Party was elected President. The Republican Party had been born as a “third party” in 1856, as aforementioned, largely in response to the issue of slavery. -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the 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. -
Industrialization
The industrial growth that began in the United States in the early times continued steadily up to and through the American Civil War. Still, by the end of the war, the typical American industry was small. -
Susan B. Anthony
She voted in the presidential election illegally. Anthony was arrested and tried unsuccessfully to fight the charges. She ended up being fined $100 ,but a fine she never paid. -
Civil Service Reform
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act 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. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884 -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot was after a bombing that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie married Louise Whitfield of New York City. She supported his philanthropy, and signed a prenuptial marriage agreement stating Carnegie’s intention of giving away virtually his entire fortune during his lifetime. -
Dawes Act
Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Political Machines
As the government grew it became the likes for many professional politicians. Some would argue that these politicians were rigged, they would argue that they provided a needed service.
Political Machines were organizations that provided social services and jobs in exchange for votes. -
Ida B. Wells
A daughter from slaves, Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. Was a journalist, Wells led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States. -
Suffrage
The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was at the Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley -
Initiative & Referendum
The initiative is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot.Referendum is a term which refers to a measure that appears on the ballot. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States.As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States. -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair received fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public chaos that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Preventing the manufacture, sale, or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other problems. -
Muckraker
Muckrakers Name given to US journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in politics and business, term was first used by Theodore Roosevelt. -
Jane Addams
She participated in the founding of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy and in the next year became the first woman president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections -
Dollar Diplomacy
President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander Knox followed a foreign policy stated as “dollar diplomacy.” The goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order that it would best promote American commercial interests. -
17th Amendments
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people for six year and each Senator shall have one vote. -
16th Amendments
This amendment exempted income taxes from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes, after income taxes on rents, dividends, and interest were ruled to be direct taxes. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act enacted December 23, 1913 .Is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes -
18th Amendments
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the the production, transport, and sale of alcohol is illegal. -
The Gilded Age
The term for this period came into use in the 1920 and was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
19th Amendments
the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States, Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding -
Clarence Darrow
Darrow and the American Civil Liberties Union appealed the case before the Tennessee Supreme Court. John Scopes' conviction was overturned on a technicality. -
Immigration & the American Dream
The term "American Dream" first was used by the American historian James Truslow Adams in his book "The Epic of America" At that time the United States were suffering under the Great Depression. Adams used the term to describe the complex beliefs, religious promises and political and social expectations. -
Klondike Gold Rush
was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada during 1896. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896 and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered an uproar.
