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Political Machines
It was an informal political group designed to gain and keep power. It provided essentials to city dwellers (the immigrants) in exchange for votes in political matters. They were run by party bosses. And It created an imbalance of power in the government. -
Industrialization
Happens in the 18th to 19th centuries after the Civil War, industry expanded as millions of people left their farms to work in mines and factories even in a big fabrics. By the early 1900's, the U.S. was the number one industrial nation. -
Populism and Progressivism
The populism movement was farmers or those people associated with agriculture believed that industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. The progressivism movement was that they continue their struggle by staying in the political mainstream. -
Indian Removal
Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful segregated of Indians. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation. In their defeat, the Creeks lost 22 million acres of land in southern Georgia and Alabama. -
Manifest Destiny
The term manifest destiny expressed the belief that it was Americans mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the reach of North America. Which happened during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States. -
Nativism
The Nativism word came from "Native American" parties of the 1840. In this context "Native" does not mean indigenous or American Indian but rather those who came from the original Thirteen Colonies. -
Third Parties Politics
In 1856, the year the Republican Party was born as a Third Party Abraham Lincoln of the new Republican Party was elected President. The Republican Party had been born as a “third party” in 1856, as aforementioned, largely in response to the issue of slavery. -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Susan B. Anthony
Anthony and Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony was tireless in her efforts, giving speeches around the country to convince others to support a woman's right to vote -
Urbanization
The American population grew from 10 million in 1870 to over 30 million by 1900. The farmers moved to cities because of better paying jobs (mainly factories), running water and plumbing was just created, electricity was also introduced, and for entertainment which included baseball, boxing, and amusement parks (Coney Island). -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age is indicating both the fabulous wealth and the widespread corruption of the era. This time period was when people referred to America as a "golden" time (at the surface which was pretty much lies), but as you scratch away at the surface, America is not really as "golden" as it seems to be. -
Civil Service Reform
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Ida B. Wells
Attended fisk university in nashville during several summer sessions. In 1887 the Tennessee Supreme Court, reversing a circuit court decision, ruled against Wells in a suit she had brought against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for having been forcibly removed from her seat after she had refused to give it up for one in a “colored only” car. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot was after a bombing that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Suffrage
The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women. -
Andrew Carnegie
After the Civil War, Carnegie invested an ironworks and built a steel mill in Pittsburgh, selling iron and steel to railroad companies for tracks. With his profits, he brought other steel mills and founded the Carnegie Steel Corporation. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs became president of the American Railway Union. His union conducted a successful strike for higher wages against the Great Northern Railway in 1894. He gained greater renown when he went to jail for his role in leading the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company strike -
Clarence Darrow
He defended Eugene V. Debs, arrested on a federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike. He also secured the acquittal of labor leader William D. Haywood for assassination charges, saved Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold from the death penalty, and defended John T. Scopes. -
William Jennings Bryan
In the 1896 presidential campaign, he travelled more than 18,000 miles through 27 states, but he lost to William McKinley. Bryan lost to McKinley again in 1900 and to William Howard Taft in 1908 -
Initiative and Referendum
The initiative is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot.Referendum is a term which refers to a measure that appears on the ballot. -
Theodore Roosevelt
In 1902 President Roosevelt took the initiative in opening the international Court of Arbitration at The Hague, which, though founded in 1899, had not been called upon by any power in its first three years of existence. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs or medicines, and liquors. -
Muckrakers
Muckrakers Name given to US journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in politics and business, term was first used by Theodore Roosevelt. -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair received fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public chaos that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. -
Dollar Diplomacy
It refers to the use of diplomacy to promote the United States commercial interest and economic power abroad by guaranteeing loans made to strategically important foreign countries. -
17th Amendments
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people for six year and each Senator shall have one vote. -
16th Amendments
The 16th amendment exempted income taxes from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes, after income taxes on rents, dividends, and interest were ruled to be direct taxes. -
The Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act enacted December 23, 1913 .Is an 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 -
Jane Addams
She accepted the chairmanship of the Women's Peace Party, an American organization, and four months later the presidency of the International Congress of Women convened at The Hague largely upon the initiative of Dr. Aletta Jacobs, a Dutch suffragist leader of many and varied talents. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the the production, transport, and sale of alcohol is illegal. -
19th Amendment
the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
It was a bribery incident that took place in the United States, Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding -
Immigration & the American Dream
The term "American Dream" first was used by the American historian James Truslow Adams in his book "The Epic of America" At that time the United States were suffering under the Great Depression. Adams used the term to describe the complex beliefs, religious promises and political and social expectations. -
Klondike Gold Rush
It was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada during 1896. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896 and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered an uproar.
