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Populism and Progressivism
The Populism was farmers or those 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 remaining in the political mainstream. -
Indian Removal
Signed by Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, he was a forceful segregated of Indians. In 1814 he commanded the United States military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek Nation. In their defeat, the Creaks loss 22 million acres of land in southern Georgia and Alabama. -
Urbanization
Urbanization started in Washington D.C. in 1833. The Urbanization is the process, which rural communities grow to form cities, or urban centers, and by extension, the growth of those cities. It occurs to increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities. -
Nativism
Nativism got its name from the "Native American" parties of the 1840. In this context "Native" does not mean indigenous or American Indian. Rather those who came from the original Thirteen Colonies and ran off all the real natives. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was originated in the 1840s. Manifest Destiny is a term during the 19th century of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to stretch coast to coast. The {erase was first employed by John L. O'Sullvan in an article on the annexation of Texas published on July-August 1845. -
Suffrage
The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Covers the years of 1848 to 1920, under leadership of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Staton, and other women's right pioneers As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women. -
Third Parties Politics
In 1856 the year the Republican Party was born. A third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals. American politics operate as two-party system, and third party candidates do not play major role in elections. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act of 1860 did pass by congress, but it was vetoed by President James Buchanan. Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, May 20, 1864. The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Susan B. Anthony
Anthony was an American social reformer and women's right activist. Anthony played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. In 1869 Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton started a new organization, the National Women Suffrage Association. -
The Gilded Age
The term for this period came into use in the 19th century from 1870s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's. By this, he meant that this period was glittering on the surface by corrupt underneath. A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. -
Industrialization
Started in the end of the eighteenth century. The industrial growth that began in the United States in the early times continued steadily up to and through the American Civil War. Still, by the end of the war, the typical American industry was small. -
Civil Service Reform
The Civil Service Reform is, United States federal law, in 1883. Which established that positions within the federal gov. should be awarded on the basic merit. It was eventually place most federal employees on the merit system. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair also known as the Haymarket massacre. It was and eight-hour day, and it was the after math of the bombing that took place at a labor demonstration. It took pace on Tuesday May 04, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Dawes Act
Adopted by Congress in 1887. The president of the United States, to survey American Indian tribal land. The treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist. He is the second-wealthiest figure of the modern period. He led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Ida B. Wells
Wells was an African American journalist, feminist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Wells led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. Then she later went on and became in groups striving for African American Justice. -
Clarence Darrow
Darrow was an American lawyer and a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Darrow work as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials earned him place in American legal history. In 1894 he defended Eugene E. Debs for arrested on a federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike. -
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan was an American orator from Nebraska. In 1896 he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic party. The cross of Gold speech was delivered at the Democratic National Convention Chicago on July 9, 1896 -
Klondike Gold Rush
Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896. Was a migration by an estimated 100,00 prospectors of whom 30,000 arrived to the Klondike region of Yukon in the north-western area in Canada during the 1896. When news reached Seattle and San Fran. the following year it triggers an uproar. -
Initiative and Referendum
South Dakota first state to adopt process in 1898. Initiative, is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by pacing proposed statutes. Referendum, is a term which refers to measure that appears on the ballot. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Was an American union leader, he's was also one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the world. Eugene V. Debbs was best known for Socialist Party candidate for United States president 5 times between 1900 and 1920. -
Political Machines
Is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and business. The Tammany Hall machine that controlled New York City's political from late in the 18th century. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., an American statesman and solider. He served as the 26th President of the United States from Sept. 14, 1901- March 4, 1909. Theodore also served as the 25th Vice President of the U.S. from Sept. 1901. -
Muckraker
Is a name given to the US journalists and other writers who exposed corruption in business and politics. The term was popularized in a speech by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. Its meaning "one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among politics and business leaders." -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Pure Food and Drug Act passed in June 30,1906. Preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of misbranded or poisonous foods and drugs. Like medicines and liquors. -
Dollar Diplomacy
President William Howard Traft and Secretary of State Philander Knox followed a foreign policy. It was Stated as "dollar diplomacy." The goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order that it would best promote American commercial interests. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement activist and leader in the women's suffrage and world peace. She was known as the "mother" of Social Work, also for her work as a social reformer, pacifist and feminist during the late 19th and early 20th century. -
16th Amendments
Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909 and ratified Feb. 03, 1913. The constitution allows the Congress to collect an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing to on the US Census. -
17th Amendment
Passed by congress May 13, 1912 and ratified April 08, 1913. United States shell be composed of 2 Senators from each State, elected by people and each Senator shall have one vote. The 17th amendment by allowing voters to cast direct voters for U.S. Senators. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act enacted Dec. 23, 1913. Is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve system, the central banking system of the United States. Which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes. -
18th Amendment
Ratification on January 16, 1919 and would take effect on the 17th. The 18th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution effectively established prohibition of alcoholic beverages on the United States. By declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol is illegal. -
19th Amendement
Passed by congress June 04, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920. The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution granted American women the right to vote a right, known as women's suffrage. At this time female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922. Was a bribery incident that took place in the US, Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Tea pot Dome in Wyoming. Two other locations California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Immigration and the American Dream
The term "American Dream" was first used by an American historian James Truslow Adams in his book "The Epic of America." At that time the US was suffering under the Great Depression. Adams used the term to describe the complex beliefs, relies promise and political and social expectations. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American writer who wrote close to 100 books. His involvement with socialism led to writing assignment about the plight of workers. Upton Sinclair, work that was well know in the first half go the 20th century, and Upton won the Pulitzer for Fiction in 1943.
