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Urbanization
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Urbanization
In a 1790 census, 95 percent of the population lived in the countryside. Starting in the 1800's, Americans made innovations and inventions to urbanize the United States. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a leading figure in the abolitionist an women's suffrage movement. She also led the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age occurred because of rapid immigration and the act of urbanization. -
Industrialization
The industrial growth that began in the United States in the early 1800's continued steadily up to and through the American Civil War. -
Political Machines
Political machines were organizations where an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. -
Civil Service Reform
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 established that promotions should be given to those who deserve it, not just political affiliation. -
Haymarket Riot
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Dawes Act
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Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a feminist in the late 1800's through the early 1900's. She was best known for opening a school center in Chicago, Illinois in 1889. When it started out, it was just her and her friend, Ellen G. Starr. Then it grew to be a substantial facility for night school, daycare, kindergarten classes, club meetings and more. -
Populism & Progressivism
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Immigration & The American Dream
After the depression of the 1890s, immigration jumped from a low of 3.5 million in that decade to a high of 9 million in the first decade of the new century. Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe continued coming as they had for three centuries, but in decreasing numbers. The reasons these new immigrants made the journey to America were escaping religious, racial, and political persecution, or seeking relief from a lack of economic opportunity, such as the American Dream. -
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Populism & Progressivism
Populism was the movement to increase farmers' political power to work to pass laws in their interests. Progressivism is a variety of responses to the economic and social problems from industrialization in America. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs was best known for being one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. He was also a representative of the Socialist Party of America. Debs also contributed in the Pullman Strike in 1894. -
William Jennings Bryan
William J. Bryan was an orator and politician in America. He became a strong force for the Party of Democrats in 1896. He was also nominated three times to be the Democratic Party's candidate for President of the United States. -
The Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a very rich philanthropist. When he moved to the United States, he started working multiple different jobs to support his family. He then worked for Thomas Scott in the railroad business. He learned about business and the railroad industry, and made very wise investments. Then, as he got older he donated most of his money to charities. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered for two things. He is remembered for his presidency, and he is remembered for his contribution in the conservation of many parks, bird reservations, and national forests. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906's purpose was to prevent the manufacture, sale, or distribution of food with drugs in it. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American writer and published a book that exposed difficult working conditions in the meatpacking industry in 1906. The book was called "The Jungle". -
Dollar Diplomacy
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16th Amendment
The 16th amendment allowed Congress to impose a Federal income tax. -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment declared that the senators were elected directly by people of their states. -
Federal Reserve Act
The purpose of the Federal Reserve Act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes -
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol. It is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon 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. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was a lawyer that is best known for his participation in the Scopes Trial in July of 1925. He defended a high school substitute who was accused of violating a state act, in which you couldn't teach kids about evolution. The whole trial was just staged to basically advertise Dayton, Tennessee, the small town where it was held. -
Ida B. Wells
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Manifest Destiny
