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Susan B Anthony
Susan B Anthony was a major lecturer for women's rights. She spoke out and held conventions for equality, no matter what was said against her. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was an entrepeneur raised from a poor family from Scotland. He came to the United States at thirteen and worked to help support his family. Eventually, Carnegie started his own steel company called Carnegie Steel. By the 20th century, Carnegie Steel became the largest steel company in the country. Carnegie, being one of the richest men in the country, eventually retired back to Scotland and gave away the majority of his money to help the country and give back to society. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the belief that American settlers were destined to move westwards and expand across the continent. -
The American Dream
Immigrants came to the United States for an equal opportunity to achieve success, freedom, and equality. -
Suffrage
Suffrage is the right for people to vote. Women across the nation fought for the right to vote and to have a voice in society.. Eventually, they got the 19th amendment passed guaranteeing women the right to vote. -
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Eugene V Debs
Eugene V Debs was the head of the American Railway Union and was a huge socialist leader in the United States. -
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was a lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liverties Union. He worked in the Mokey Trial and made William Jennings Bryan appear like a fool. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was a politician, naturalist, soldier, and the 26th President of the United States. Roosevelt was the leader for the Republican Party. He greatly expanded the conservation of national parks and forests, and ordered contruction of the Panama Canal. He expanded the navy and avoided war by his popular saying, "Speak softly and carry a big stick". In 1906, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. -
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William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American politician from the 1890s until his death in 1925. He was a three-time Democratic candidate for President of the United States and served two terms as a member of the House of Representatives. He joined the prosecution against John Scopes in the Monkey Trial, taking the stand as an expert on the Bible. -
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Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a social worker, philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She made people more concerned and caring about issues such as world peace and needs of children. She was a major role in women's suffrage and said women needed the right to vote if they were expected to help their communities. In 1931, 4 years before her death, Addams became the first woman to be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize. -
Homestead Act
President Abraham Lincoln signed this act designed to give public land to farmers at a small cost. The act gave 160 acres to anyone who was the head of the house and 21 years or older. -
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Ida B Wells
Ida B Wells was an African American journalist who published statistics about their rights and protested. She refused to ride streetcars and shop at white stores. She incredibly did all of this 71 years before Rosa Parks showed similar resistance. -
Social Gospel
The Social Gospel was a liberal movement within American Protestantism that attempted to apply biblical teachings to problems associated with industrialization. The people believed in the goodness of humanity. -
Civil Service Reform
Liberal Republicans held a national convention in Cincinnati demanding reform and condemning the Republicans' Southern policy. -
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Indian Removal
Native Americans were relocated to reserves. Many of the Americans tried to Americanize the Indians by teaching them the ways of the Americans. Indian children were forced to go to schools to learn English and be Americanized. -
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906, exposing conditions in the meat packing industry. He exposed how rats would fall into the meat along with their feces, there were no sinks, and nobody cared much for health. This led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act a few months later. -
The Gilded Age
The growth of industry and a wave of immigrants marked this period in American history known as the Gilded Age. The production of iron and steel rose dramatically and western resources like lumber, gold, and silver increased the demand for improved transportation. -
Nativism
Nativism was a movement based on hostility to immigrants. It caused ethnic tensions and was religious bias. People haed the ideas of immigrants coming to the United States and taking jobs. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Riot began by a protestor throwing a bomb at police.It resulted in the death of dozens including the Knights of Labor. It was viewed as a setback for the labor movement in America. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act was designed to breakup tribes and promote the assimilation of Indians into American Society. The act's goal was to create independent farmers out of Indians and give them land and the tools for citizenship. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populsim is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests of the people. Populist sentiment contributed to the American Revolutionary War, and continued to shape the young United States afterward. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 people to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Political Machines
Political machines are political entities controlled by a boss that has enormous influence over the government of urban cities. They gave money to support businesses, immigrants, and the poor in return for their votes. The power of the machine is based on the ability of the workers to get out the vote for their candidates on election day. -
Urbanization and Industrialization
Several people immigrated to the United States for a better life, settling in cities to work in factories. It allowed the cities to grow, but with faults like tenemants. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous medicines.The act arose due to public education from Muckrakers about the conditions in food businesses. -
Muckraker
Muckraker's were journalists, novelists, and critics who attempted to expose the abuses of business and the corruption in politics. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy was a policy used to further aims in Latin America and East Asia for economic power. It was important to get the Caribbean nations to repay the European debts with loans from American businessmen. It was also intended to safeguard a nation's foreign investments. -
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th Amendment
Direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act was supposed to form economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank. It would then be in charge of monetary policy, into the United States. -
18th Amendment
Prohibition of the manufacturing, sale, transport, inport, or export of alcoholic beverages. -
19th Amendment
Guarantees women the right to vote. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Tea Pot Dome Scandal was a scandal of bribery that took place in the United States in the 1920s. Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates.
