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The Birth of Modern America

  • Indian Removal

    Indian Removal
    during the precidency period of president Andrew Jackson , the l
    Indian Removal Act aw was passes by congress on May 28 1830. the president negotiated with the Indian tribes to move to the west of the Mississippi River. and this Act was strongly supported by the new settler the non-native American in the south who was willing to gain thier lands.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    Andrew Carnegie was a tycoon whose business is about the steel rail roads. He moved from Scotland, at first he didnt became a wealthy man. HIs conception of Start-To-Finished startegy helped the the american rail road business to become more productively.and at the end of his life he ended up to become the philanthropist he donated much money to support building libraries. So he was very important to the rail ways business at that time
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    The president of National American Women Suffrage Association, born on February 15 1820. She worked as a teacher before becoming a women suffrage movment leadership partnered with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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    Urbanization & Industrialization

    acoording to the immigration to America the citizen of the city be came more crowded and unsanitary because of the more job opportunity and work to do and that caused the area to become more urbanized the industrails growth rapidly.
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    Immigration & the American Dream

    between 1800s to 1930s it was an immigration to the US from many country around the world, mostly from Europe such as German Holland Scottland and so on. the immigrants hoped to have the good future there and to find the new settlement, so we called it "the American Dream". the immigrants were transported by ship.
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    Born in september 6 1860, Jane Addams is a co-founder of the Hull House .The Hull House is a services which provided for the immigrants and the poor people in Chicago city in 1931 she won the Peace Noble Prize. She was also the first female president of the National Conference of Social Work.
  • Homestead Act

     Homestead Act
    Homestead Act first astablished by president Lincoln in 1862 that granted the federal land to anyone older than 21 years old or the head member of the family who never take arms against the US government.
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    The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age is the age that was around the 18th century and the early 19th century, it was about the flourishing of the immigrants to the USA that caused the Urbanization and Industrializaion. and that of course it made city over-crowded the gap between the poor and the rish was huge.
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    Initiative, Referendum, Recall

    Initiative is a process that led the citizens bypass the state legistature by placing the propose statute. and the first state that the Initiative occured was South Dacota. Referendum is the term that the measurement of the legislative or the statute submissed to the people vote. recall means the term that the public official could be pull back from the office by the vote.
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    civil service reforms

    The five important civil service reforms were the two Tenure of Office Acts of 1820 and 1867, Pendleton Act of 1883, the Hatch Acts (1939 and 1940) and the CSRA of 1978.
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    Populism & Progressivism

    populism is a way of political act that granted to the citizens and the grass-root people to makes the government control the major business of the country to prevent the monopoly of the businessman and progressivism is a way of education that led the learners to learn from themselves
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    Political machine

    Political machine is the organization that control the election of the big cities by provided services for the exchanged to the voters. Because of the rapidly growing of the cities from the immigration urbanization and stuffs so the political party that could controlled the situation could take advantages so that begins the political machines.The leaders aree called " Bosses"
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    Nativism

    accoarding to the immigration to the USA during the late 18th to the early 19th centuy it effected the native American so much. basically because the diversity of cultures languages and nations has been spreaded to the America. so the natives were afried that the immigrants are going to take thier jobs there'll be more competition and they can't become Americanized. that leaded the racial tension, xenophobia,rised of KKK , Chinese Exclusion Act and so on .
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    Third Parties Politics

    Third Parties Politics is the political party that always focus on the policies of the big 2 parties that lack on somethings or some issues and sometimes could also won the big popular vote and become the big main politac party instead of the original big party one.
  • Haymarket Riot

    Haymarket Riot
    this event was cuased the turmoils by bombing that took place at the labour demonstration in Chicago Illinois and the target of this bombing is to support the 8 hours of working a day.
  • The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act
    this Act was given the Indians the right to gain the US citizenship, from the acceptance of the offer of the congress that asked for the Indians to leave thier land from the West and find the other land or cities to dwell in and give thier land to the others. the Act was amended on 1891 and 1906.
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow
    He was a lawyher who fought for many important dramatical cases and also the public speaker debaters and the defence council, his cases are well known for defended Eugene V. Debs saved Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold from the death penalty, and defended John T. Scopes and so on.
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    Social Gospel

    Social Gospel is the religous movement that was performed by the Protestant Christian that occured because of the social problem such as , the alcoholism child labour crime slums. that the movement was qouted the bible's verses as well.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells
    The civil right movement activist for African American in 1890. she is well-known for the founder of anti-lynching.
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan
    He was a liberal leader magnetic orator who lost three time for being the US presidency. During his campaign he travelled for 27 states over 18000 miles but he lost to William Mckinley
  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs
    Eugene V. Debs was a president of the American Railway Union in 1893. His union has successfully conducted a higher wages against the Great Northern Railway in 1894. He was the Socialist party's presidential candidate between 1900 - 1920.
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    Klondike Gold Rush

    the consequences of the gold discovered on August 16 1896 was led the booming of the people to pursuit their luck to find the gold so that was about 100000 people but just a few of them was success. during the finding of the gold it was a hard and brutal situation for the miners
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny
    Manifest Destiny is the strong belife that was about the west ward expansion to the pacific ocean that occured during the 19th century. and from the rail road steel construction it caused the urbanization and led the settlers to settle wastward.
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker
    Muckraker is the term of the journalist that protrayed the article s by the issues that revealed or exposed the bad things or the devil sides of the government such as the political machine , the corruption and so on. and anyway the word Muckraker used to be mean the truthful article.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27 1858 ,he was the govorner of New York City , later at the age of 42 he became the 26th US president from the assasintaion of president William McKinley which he considered to be the youngest president of the USA. his great remembrance successes were the construction of Panama canel , the Russo-Japanese war negotiater which leaded to win the Noble Peace Prize , his forieng policy " the soft speak and a big stick" and the ecological preservation
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair was an activist writer that his works were reveals the social injustices, such as the well-known novel called 'The Jungle" which exposed about the immigrants in Chicago. He also published the novel that reveals the corruption of the goverment and the business.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act
    the Act was to preventing the food or drugs that are not safe or poisioness and it lead to the origin of consumer protection laws, and was enacted by the federal government.
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    Dollar Diplomacy

    Dollar Diplomacy was created by U.S. president William Howard Taft and his secretary Knox for ensured that the money currency in the regions is stable and to promote the financial there
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    16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments

    the 16 amendment was for levy the taxes incomes
    the 17 amendment was for direct election to the USA senate
    the 18 amendment ws for alcohol prohibition and some how was repealed by 21st amendment
    the 19 amendment was granted for the women's suffrage
  • Suffrage

    Suffrage
    Suffrage is basically means the right to vote . during the early time of 19th century the importance situation that took place about the suffrage is the women's suffrage that also had the movement about this to.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    this Act was created the current Federal Reserve System that purposed to stabilize the economic situation by introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy.
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    Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    on the earlier 1920 theTea Pot Dome Scandal or also called the oil reserve scandle was took place. It led the secret lease of oil rights to the private companies from government owned-land.