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Political Machines
Organizations that were trying to getting and gaining power. The political machines is popular for immigrant societies. They were also known for fraud. -
Indian removal
Indian removal is an act signed by Jackson. The land that is west of Mississippi was given to the indians. Some indians were fine with the change, some refused the change. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a lecturer for women's rights. She was a Quaker. Many conventions were held for the rights of women in the 1840s. -
Manifest Destiny
sed by people who believed U.S. was destined by God to expand across N. America to the Pacific Ocean. This concept was used to justify the acquisition of OR and parts of the Southwest. It led to a patriotic, expansionary mood that led Americans to go West and extend U.S. borders -
Immigration and the American Dream
American dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. Immigration is simply moving to a new location. With that being said, you can say that a lot of immigrants move to America to find equality and a better life -
Homestead Act
An act that allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it. Most of the time, that had to pay a fee. By the end of the Civil War, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years. -
Nativism
Its a mass production of machines and assembly lines replaced manual labor. This caused immigrant issues with jobs and adapting to the new culture and language. -
The gilded age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As American wages were much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw a bunch of European immigrants. -
Populism & Progressivism
A political group which began to emerge in 1891. They gained much support from farmers who turned to them to fight political unfairness. They were also known as the people's party. Progressivism was a movement that sought to raise living standards and correct wrongs in American society. Progressivism is an up-down movement whereas populism is down-up in nature. -
Civil Service Reform
Congress took action in the late 19th century to protect ethical politicians and create standards for political service; including, a civil service test for those seeking a job in government. It gave the commission jurisdiction over only 10 percent of federal jobs -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket riot was a direct result of the extreme tensions between laborers and the wealthy business owners. It was originally intended as a rally to protest the establishment of a National Wage. The McCormick Reaper Company was involved. -
Dawes Act
This act gave the President access to survey Indian land and divide it into allotments. It attempted to "americanize" the indians giving each tribe 160 acres. After 25 years this property would become theirs and they would become an american citizen. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams is a middle-class woman; She established the Hull House in Chicago in 1889. She also won a Nobel piece prize in 1931 -
Ida B. Wells
Ida was an African American journalist. She published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride street cards or shop in white owned stores. she spoke out despite threats to her life. -
Muckracker
It was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They wrote for popular magazines and had large audiences. -
Initiative & Referendum
It allows voters to remove an elected official form office. Proponents of an initiative, referendum, or recall effort must apply for an official petition serial number from the Town Clerk. These were reforms. -
Andrew Carneige
Andrew was known as the steel king. His goal was to improve efficiency by making supplies more reliable controlling the quality of the product at all stages of production. He founded the carnegie steel company in 1892. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene was the head of the American railway union and director of the pullman strike. He got imprisoned, but while he was in prison he read socialist literature and emerged as socialist leader in America. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The klondike was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. Gold was discovered there by local miners. Some became rich, some did not. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was the 26th president. He was also known for conservationism, safe food regulations, and especially the "squared deal". The Squared deal was basically that all Americans are entitled to an equal opportunity to succeed -
Upton Sinclair
Upton is an author who exposed the grotesque ways of the food/meat processing world. The book is called, The Jungle. It was about the other side of the meat industry which focused not only on the sanitation problems of the system, but what the workers had to go through and be exposed to on a daily basis in their work environment. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An act where the law requires manufacturers to tell the truth about their food and drug products. The act also gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA. -
16th amendment
Power of Congress to tax income -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar diplomacy is used to describe the efforts of the US to further its foreign policy. It's also used through the use of economic power by guaranteeing loans to foreign countries. It wished to remove any pretext for European intervention in Latin American countries. -
Federal Reserve Act
An act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System. The Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. It's also the central banking system. -
17th amendment
Established the direct election of senators; People Elect the Senators -
19th Amendment
The amendment granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman suffrage. It also prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. Tennessee was the last state to approve the amendment. -
Suffrage
Suffrage is the right to vote. The one suffrage they focused on the most was women's rights. Men and women should be equal -
18th amendment
18th amendment established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. It is the only amendment to have ever been rejected by the public and repealed. Its ratification was certified in 1919, with the amendment taking effect in 1920 -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence is a famed criminal defense lawyer for Scopes, who supported evolution. He caused William Jennings Bryan to appear foolish when Darrow questioned Bryan about the Bible. -
William Jennings Bryan
William was a United States lawyer and politician. He was also a leader of the Democrats in the Chicago convention of 1896 He advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school. -
Industrialization
Industrialization was the development of industries in a country. Mass production of machines and assembly lines replaced manual labor. -
Urbanization
The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban. The United States experienced a significant period of urbanization during the late 19th and early 20th century. Small-town residents and immigrants from Europe flocked to American cities, which strengthened U.S. industry but also created a number of health and social problems. -
Third parties politics
A party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals. George Wallace won electoral votes.
