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Political Machines
A group that controls the activities of a political party; "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine". -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony join the women's right movement in 1852. She traveled and lectured for womens right to their own property and to retain their earnings. In 1900, she persuaded the University of Rochester to admit women. -
Indian Removal
Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. Authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Andrew Carnegie
While Andrew Carnegie working for the railroads, he invested in serval things. 1865 he lefrt the railraods to focus on bussiness he was investing in, such like Keystone Bride Company. By 1889, it was the largest steel company in the world. Later, he sold his bussiness for more than $200 dollars. -
Manifest Destiny
Anglo-Saxon Americans’ providential mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the breadth of North America. -
Suffrage
the right to vote in political elections. -
Clarence Darrow
Darrow was a lawyer and leading member of the american Civil Liberties Uniom. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt was the U.S vice president. He was governor of New York before becoming VP. He also won a second term in 1904 and won the Noble Peace Prize for ending The Russo-japanese War. -
William Jennings Bryan
Leading American politician from 1890s. He was standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the U.S -
Jane Addams
Addams worked as a social reformer, pacifist, and feminist. She went to medical school in 1880s. Jane and her friend Starr opened one of the first settlements. It had child care, educational courses, art gallery, a public kitchen, and more helpful programs. -
Homestead Act
Any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
Ida B. Wells
Bell was a journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She also led an anto-lynching crusade in the U.S in the 1890s. -
Urbanization & Industrialization
From 1870 to 1900 the United States became the world’s foremost industrial nation. Abundant resources, new technology, cheap energy, fast transport, and the availability of capital and labor. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a period of rapid economic growth but also much social conflict -
Upton Sinclair
Upton SinClair was an Activist, Author, and Journalist. -
Populism & Progressivism
Attempted to unite discontented farmers; improve their economic conditions; supported increasing the money supply with free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold.
Leaders where middle-class reformers concerned with urban and consumer issues; believed government should be used to ameliorate social problems; wanted to use government power to regulate industrial production and improve labor conditions; rejected Social Darwinism -
Haymarket Riot
Strikes by industrial workers were increasingly common in the United States. Labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. -
The Dawes Act
Gave Native Americans in the form of reservations, and separated them into smaller, separate parcels of land to live on -
Klondike Gold Rush
Yukon-area Indians Skookum Jim Mason and Tagish Charlie, along with Seattleite George Carmack found gold in Rabbit Creek, near Dawson, in the Yukon region of Canada. Dawson up and left for Nome, where most of the gold-seekers once again lost out on finding fame and fortune. -
Muckraker
Lincoln Steffens published an article in called "TWEED DAYS IN ST. LOUIS." He told how city officials worked in league with big business to maintain power while corrupting the public treasury. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
rovided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food -
Social Gospel
liberal movement within American Protestantism that attempted to apply biblical teachings to problems associated with industrialization. Read more: Social Gospel | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/society/social-gospel.html#ixzz3IaTCQEWe -
Dollar Diplomacy
Knox main goal of diplomacy was to improve financial opportunities, but also to use private capital to further U.S. interests overseas. “Dollar diplomacy” -
Federal Reserve Act
Establish a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the United States. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Tea pot dome scandal was a big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States. -
Eugene V. Debbs
He was the Socialist party's standard-bearer in five presidential election. He traveled defending workings their strikes and insustrial disputes. He received nearly a million votes after conducted his last campaign for president as prisoner in Altanta federal Penitentiary. -
Civil Service Reform
Employees in most agencies of the executive branch of the Federal Government. -
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
-Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income.
-Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.
-Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
-Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. -
Immigration & the American Dream
Immigrants is associate the American dream with opportunity, a good job and home ownership. The United States offers a less hierarchical society that provides more opportunity than many other countries -
Third Parties Politics
Third parties face many obstacles in the United States. In all states, the Democratic and Republican candidates automatically get on the ballot, whereas third-party candidates usually have to get thousands of signatures on petitions just to be listed on the ballot -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
- Measure that appears on the ballot. -Procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office.
- Process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot.
