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Susan B. Anthony
She was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. -
Indian Removal
Indian removal was a 19th-century policy of ethnic cleansing by the government of the United States to move Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. -
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Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Andrew Carnegie
He was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
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Nativism
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Eugene V. Debbs
He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. He was known for his work with labor movements, and Debbs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. -
Clarence Darrow
He was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was called a "sophisticated country lawyer", he remains notable for his wit, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians. -
Teddy Roosevelt
He was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States. He was a leader of the Republican Party (GOP) and founder of the Progressive Party insurgency of 1912. He was known for his leadership of the Progressive Movement. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a leading American politician.He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States. He served two terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska and was the United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, resigning because of his pacifist position on the World War. -
Jane Addams
She was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Addams was one of the most prominent reformers of the Progressive Era. -
Homestead Act
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Ida B. Wells
She was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites, often under the guise of rape charges. She was active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement. -
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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe, which attracted millions of immigrants. -
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Social Gospel
Was a religious social-reform movement that was prominent from about 1870 to 1920, especially among liberal Protestant groups dedicated to the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice. -
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Urbanization & Industrialization
Urbanization is the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city, and Industrialization is The process in which a society or country transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services. -
Upton Sinclair
He wrote books that exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. -
Haymarket Riot
It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers by the police, the previous day. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse the public meeting. The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians. -
The Dawes Act
It authorized the President of the 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. -
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Populism & Progressivism
The Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. One main goal of the Progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government by exposing and undercutting political machines and their bosses and establishing further means of direct democracy. -
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Civil Service Reform
Civil service reform refers to movements for the improvement of the civil service in methods of appointment, rules of conduct, etc. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
Was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. -
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Initiative, Referendum, Recall
he 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 general term which refers to a measure that appears on the ballot. Recall is a procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office. -
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Muckraker
The term muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century. Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
17th Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. It also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, allowing for state legislatures to permit their governors to make temporary appointments until a special election can be held. -
16th Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. This 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. -
Federal Reseve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol. The Eighteenth Amendment, and defined which "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited, and which were excluded from prohibition (ex: for medical and religious purposes). -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. The amendment was the climax of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote. -
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
It was a bribery incident that took place in the United States. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. 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. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies and became the first Cabinet member to go to prison. -
Political Machines
political machine as, in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
Immigration and the American Dream
is an idea that suggests that anyone in the US can succeed through hard work and has the potential to lead a happy, successful life. Many people have expanded upon or refined the definition to include things such as freedom, fulfillment and meaningful relationships -
Third Parties Politics
a third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals (or, in the context of an impending election, is considered highly unlikely to do so). -
Suffrage
Suffrage is the right to vote in political elections.Women's suffrage (also known as woman suffrage)[1] is the right of women to vote and to stand for electoral office. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Sweden, Finland and some western U.S. states in the late 19th century.
