West

Westward Expansion

  • Industrialization

    Industrialization
    the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
  • 17th amendment

    17th amendment
    Senator of united states shall be composed of two senators from each state.
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment
    The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment
    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
  • The Gilded Age

    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
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    American social reformer and women's activist who played role in suffrage movement
  • Third parties Politics

    Third parties Politics
    Party contending the votes that failed to out pull either of its two strongest rivals.
  • Indian removal

    Indian removal
    was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson to grants unsettled lands in west in exchange for Indian lands.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    Scottish american industrialist who led to the west expansion. Offten described as one of the richest people ever.
  • Civil Services Reform

    Civil Services Reform
    Federal Law establishing positions within feeral government should be awarded on basis of merit.
  • Eugenen V. Debbs

    Eugenen V. Debbs
    American union leader, One of the founding members of industrial workers of world. Five times candidate.
  • Clarance Darrow

    Clarance Darrow
    American Lawyer Leading member of American Civil Liberties Union and promienent advocate fro georgia economincs
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    Known as the mother f social worker and pioneer in american settlement activist. Leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan
    American Orator and politician from Nebraska beginning in 1896, and emerged as dominant force in Democratic Party.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells
    African American Journalist, newspaper editor and an early leader in Civil Rights Movement.
  • Homestead Act

    encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee
  • Maifest Destiny

    Maifest Destiny
    the belief that God Wanted people all to move out to the west and live on the land
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair
    Was an american writer. Work was well known and popular in first half of 20th century.
  • Nativism

    Nativism
    the theory or doctrine that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired or learned.
  • Haymarket Riot

    was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886
  • Dawes act

    Dawes act
    authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    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 and Referendum

    Initiative and Referendum
    Three powers reserved to enable the voters. Or repeal legislation, or to remove elected office
  • Immigration and american dream

    Immigration and american dream
    Opportunity with a good job and home ownership.
  • urbanization

    urbanization
    The doing of making an area more urban
  • Populism and progressivism

    Populism and progressivism
    Progressivism is an up-down movement whereas populism is down-up in nature.Populism is an older campaign theory than progressivism.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines
    political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses
  • Theodore roosevelt

    Theodore roosevelt
    American statesman author, explorer and solider Serving 26th president.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    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.
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker
    allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," popularized 1906 in speech by President Theodore Roosevelt
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    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.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    U.S. legislation that created the current Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability in the United States
  • Sufferage

    Sufferage
    The right to vote in public, political elections.Recognized women's rights.Womens won the vote on august 20, 1920
  • Tea Pot Dome

    Tea Pot Dome
    The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922
  • 16th Amendment

    Stating that congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from any source derived. Without apportionment.