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Industrialization
The period of social and economic change that transforms.
It's for markets for consumer goods.
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Civil Service Reform
Proponents denounced the distribution of government offices.
They demanded nonpartisan scientific methods and credential be used to select civil servants.
The five important civil service reforms were the two Tenure of Office Act. -
Indian Removal
Was a policy of the United States government.
Were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States.
In a matter that remains one of debate. -
Nativism
Is the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
is is currently more commonly described as an anti-immigrant position.
is typically not accepted by those who hold this political view. -
Manifest Destiny
American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.
America's moral mission as one of democratic example rather than one of conquest. -
Suffrage
Is the right to vote in public, political elections.
The right to vote is called the active right to vote.
Suffrage is often conceived in terms of elections for representatives. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was only 17 and petitioned for the women's suffrage.
She was part of anti-slavery.
She fought for the women's rights. -
Andrew Carnegie
He invested in rail roads.
He led the expansion of the American steel industry.
He was also identified as one of the richest men -
Homestead Act
United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land.
The Homestead Acts were an expression of the "Free Soil."
Any adult who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government could apply. -
The Gilded Age
It was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age.
The early half of the Gilded Age roughly coincided with the middle portion of the Victorian era.
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth. -
Third Parties Polities
Is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals.
The distinction is particularly significant in two-party systems.
Coalitions often include smaller parties. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism and Progressivism developed in the early 20th century.
Professor Steven Hahn of the University of Pennsylvania compares the two political movements.. -
Eugene V. Debs
Was a member of the democratic party.
The Pullman Palace Car company had made an wildcat strike.
He called a boycott of the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars. -
Haymarket Riot
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration.
A peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police.
An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse the public meeting. -
Dawes Act
United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship.
The objectives of the Dawes Act were to lift the Native Americans out of poverty. -
Willam Jennings Bryan
He is part of the Democratic party..
Because of the wisdom of all the common people he was known as "The Great Commoner."
He served in the House of Representatives. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region.
Some people became wealthy, but the majority went in vain.
Each of them was required to bring a year's supply of food by the Canadian authorities in order to prevent starvation. -
Initiative and Referendum
Are three powers reserved to enable the voters.
To remove an elected official from office.
Place legislation that has recently been passed by a legislature. -
Political Machines
Political organization in which an authoritative boss commands the support of a corps of supporters and business.
The machine's power is based on the ability of the workers to get out the vote.
Machines typically are organized on a permanent basis instead of a single election. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Was the 33rd governor of New York.e was the youngest president.
He founded the "Bull Moose" party.
Roosevelt was very sick and over the years his heath had fallen and died 1919. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products.
It required that active ingredients be placed on the label of a drug’s packaging and that drugs could not fall below purity levels established by the United States. -
Muckraker
Was used in the Progressive Era.
They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines.
Political machines while trying to raise public awareness and anger -
Upton Sinclair
He was famous for the novel the jungle.
He is also known for the line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
He is a pretty famous writer. -
Ida B. Wells
She was an african american journalist.
She was a suffragist.
She was one of the founders of the NAACP. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Is a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America.
The diplomacy to promote commercial interest dates from the early years of the Republic.
Bailey finds that dollar diplomacy was designed to make both people in foreign lands. -
Federal Reserve Act
Created and established the Federal Reserve System.
created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes.
The Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.. -
18th Amendment
Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
The Amendment was the first to set a time delay before it would take effect following ratification. -
19th Amendment
It established the Constitutional Council.
It enabled trial of election petitions by High Courts.
It guaranteed women the right to vote. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
It was a bribery.
President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome.
Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies and became the first Cabinet member to go to prison. -
Clarence Darrow
He was a lawyer.
He did the trail of scopes trial.
He was called the sophisticated lawyer. -
Jane Addams
First women to get a nobel peace prize.
She was the co-founder of the ACLU.
She wrote the"Utilization of Women in City Government" which won her the peace prize. -
16th Amendment
This exempted income taxes from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes.. -
Immigration and the American Dream
The American Dream is rooted in the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that "all men are created equal."
"Life should be better,richer and fuller"Was the American Dream.
Freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success. -
17th Amendment
It alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate.
State legislatures to permit their governors to make temporary appointments until a special election can be held.
It was first implemented in special elections. -
Urbanization
They are trying make their new land more like a city.
It has been closely linked to modernization.
This unprecedented movement of people is forecast .
