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Industrialization
This was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the US. This included going from hand production methods to machines, improved efficiency of water power, steam power, machine tools, and the factory system as a whole. -
Indian Removal
Indian removal was a policy of the US government where the native Americans were forced to move from their homes, to the west, which was then known as the indian territory. -
Nativism
In the 1830s, when immigration from Ireland and Germany was high,new anti-alien movements emerged, causing violent attacks on Cathlics institutions, and pushing tons of anti-catholic tracts. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the idea that Americans were destined to spread from coast to coast. -
Suffrage
As for women's suffrage in the US, the legal right of women to vote in that country was established over the course of many decades. -
Homestead Act
For a fee, people could register for land in the west. If they helped out the land, they got to keep the title. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist who led the expansion of the steel industry. He was one of the richest people ever. In 1864, he invested $40,000 in Story Farm on Oil Creek in Pennsylvania. A year later, it earned over $1,000,000. -
Susan B Anthony
Susan Anthony was a social reformer and women's rights advocate who played a huge role in the women's suffrage movement, and by the 1880s she was among the senior political figures in the U.S. -
The Gilded Age
The gilded age, was somewhat a distraction from the shady business practices, and vulgarness going on. It was also an era of reform, and fought discrimination. -
Immigration & The American Dream
Many immigrants associate America opportunity, a good job, owning a home, and safety. America experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era. There were never enough jobs, and employers often took advantage of them. -
Populism and Progressivism
The populist movement started during the 1880s, where farmers believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. Middle class people started the progressivism movement in the early 1900s. They continue their struggle by remaining in the political mainstream. -
Civil Service Reform
The Civil Service Reform is a law which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Debbs entered politics as a Democratic City Clerk in 1879, and in 1885 he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly. He organized the American railway, which led to a strike against the pullman company of Chicago. -
Urbanization
Urbanization is a shift from rural to urban areas. in the 1800s, 95 percent lived in the rural areas. Causes were entrepreneurs, and the industrial revolution, 9increased immigrations, and new technologies, which led to rise of population, pollution, separation, crime increase, and cheap accommodation. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
The dawes act authorized the president to break up Indian land. It wanted Indians to adopt white culture, and it alienated indians from each other. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was an activist, social worker, a women's suffrage leader. She helped America to address and focus on issues tat were of concern. In 1889 she o-founded Hull House, a community f university women, whose main purpose was to provide social and educational opportunities for working class people. -
Political Machines
A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of corps of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their efforts. SO basically, they were just organizations that gave serves in exchange for votes. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration to the Klondike region To Alaska between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners and it triggered a worldwide prospectors. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was a leader of the Republican Party, and the Progressive Era in the early 20th century. After leaving the army, he found that the other republicans in new York needed him. He then won the 1898 state election. As governor he remained connected to his middle-class political base. He successfully pushed the Ford Franchise- Tax bill. He developed principles that shaped his presidency. -
Muckraker
a muckraker was a term for reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
initiative and referendum
Initiative and referendums allows citizens to place new legislation on a popular ballot, or to place legislation that has recently been passed by a legislature on a ballot for popular vote. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of bad food, drugs, medicines, and liquors. It required that active ingredients be placed on the label, and drugs could not fall below purity levels. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was a writer of over 100 books. He even won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. But before then, he wrote his classic, The Jungle, in 1906 which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, which led to the 1906 pure food and drug act and the meat inspection act. -
WIlliam Jennings Bryan
William Bryan was a politician from Nebraska, and a wing of the Democratic Party, and was a three time nominee for President of the United States. He served two terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and was U.S. Secretary of State. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida Wells was an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and one of the founders of the NAACP. -
Dolar Diplomacy
From 1909 to 1913, William Howard and secretary of state followed a foreign policy called the dollar diplomacy. the goal was to create stability and order that would best help out American commercial interests. -
16th Amendment
the 16th amendment allows the congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the U.S. Census. -
17th amendment
The 17th Amendment redefined the rules about how senators are elected. -
Federal Reserve Act
AN act f Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve stem, the central banking system of the US, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve note, which are what we now call dollars. -
18th Amendments
Prohibition movements popped up across the US. So in 1920, Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol. -
19th Amendments
This amendment provided men and women with equal voting rights. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
A scandal surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior.When the affair became known, Congress directed President Harding to cancel the leases, and the SC declared the leases fraudulent and ruled illegal Harding's transfer of authority to Fall. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was best known for defending Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14 year old Robert Franks. He stunned the prosecution when he had the killers plead guilty.
