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Urbanization
The process of making an area more urban. Urban is the opposite of rural, rural is plain, country not many major cities. Urbanization includes city growth or cities wanting to be more urban. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. Nativist outbursts occurred in the Northeast from the 1830s to the 1850s, primarily in response to a surge of Irish Catholic immigration. -
Indian Removal
This Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830. authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Initiative and Referendum
Three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. This may result in the adoption of a new law. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was an acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852. Soon after, she dedicated her life to woman suffrage.Ignoring opposition and abuse, Anthony traveled, lectured, and canvassed across the nation for the vote. She also campaigned for the abolition of slavery, the right for women to own their own property and retain their earnings, and she advocated for women's labor organizations. -
Homestead Act
This act was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. This acts intent was to get people to move west by providing them land for cheap. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to 1900. The name for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's writings. -
Industrialization
The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. Industrialization and urbanization affected Americans everywhere. Not every city in the country developed as fast as the largest cities did. -
Civil Service Reform
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a federal law in the U.S. It established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with broad support from Terre Haute’s workers and businessmen. Debs organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago in 1894.Late in life, Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his opposition to the United States’ involvement in World War I. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Riot was an outbreak of violence in Chicago on May 4, 1886. Demands for an eight-hour working day became increasingly widespread among American laborers in the 1880s. It was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration. -
Dawes Act
This Act was adopted by congress in 1887. The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. It emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes. -
Andrew Carnegie
He owned Carnegie Steel Corporation, the largest of its kind in the world. In 1901 he sold his business and dedicated his time to expanding his philanthropic work, including the establishment of Carnegie-Mellon University in 1904. -
Ida B. Wells
She was a daughter of slaves an a journalist, Wells lead an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s, and went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
Clarence Darrow
He was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.He was also well known as a public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous writer. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism is a mode of political communication that is based on contrasts between "the common man" or the "people". While progressivism who follow or support progressivism are mostly elite, rich, and powerful politicians while those who support populism are the generally masses. -
Klondike Gold Rush
This was discovered in bonanza creek in 1896. The Gold Rush was a migration of about 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
William Jennings Bryan
An American orator and politician from Nebraska. In 1896 he emerged as a dominant force in the democratic party. He gave his famous speech "Cross of Gold Speech" at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. -
Political Machine
A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses which are usually campaign workers, who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Muckraker
A person who looks for publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business. People do this for their benefit and seek to gain a profit. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This was an act passed in 1906. It 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. -
Dollar Diplomacy
This 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. -
Theodore Roosevelt
An American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. On October 14, 1912, he was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Schrank attempted to assassinate him while he stayed at Gilpatrick hotel. -
16th Amendment
The congress is allowed to collect some money earned by people in the United States, it does not matter where the money comes from as long as it is an "income". -
17th Amendment
Every state will have two Senators, and they will serve six-year terms in Congress. If a senator leaves office the governor may appoint someone to fill that opening. -
Federal Reserve Act
This 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 Amendment
The United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal -
Jane Addams
The second woman to receive the Peace Prize. She founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919, and worked for many years to get the great powers to disarm and conclude peace agreements. -
Suffrage
Millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right. The Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. -
19th Amendment
The United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was named for a Wyoming rock formation resembling a teapot. The scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Immigration & the American Dream
The american dream is a term used by immigrants. Immigrants dream is to make it to the U.S. and become successful and to be able to have a better life for themselves and their family. -
Upton Sinclair
He published over 90 books throughout his life, and his novel Dragon's Teeth won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Upton Sinclair is best known for his controversial and often misunderstood novel The Jungle. His primary interest was in social change, and his concern for social and moral improvement dominated his prolific writings.
