The Birth of Modern America

By jorbell
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    American dream for imigrants

    The American dream for immigrants was that everyone has the right to a good job and home ownership.
  • Nativism

    The idea that Immigrants should have less rights than the natives( Not native americans/indians).
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    Susan B Anthony

    She played a pivitol role in womens sufferage.
  • Indian removal act

    Indian removal act
    Authorizaed the president to negotiate with indian tribes in southern tribes for thier removal to federal lands to the west of the mississippi in exchange for thier homelands
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    Manifest destiny

    The belief that America should spread from the pacific to the atlantic.
  • homestead act

    anyone could file a claim for federal land grant
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    Ida B Wells

    She was an African american journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader of civil rights movement.
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    Suffrage

    The right to vote was given to black males was given in 1864 with the 15th amendment.
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    urbanization and industrialization

    During this time period america was the most industrial country in the world
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    The gilded age

    Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath.
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    Upton Sinclair

    He was an author and his most famous book was "The Jungle"
  • Haymarket riot

    Haymarket riot
    it was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at Haymarket square in Chicago.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    She co-founded one of the first settlements of the United states.
  • Progressivism and populism

    Progressivism is the idea that the government could be used to better society
    Populism is a political party made of farmers, laborers, and middle class activist
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    William J. Bryan

    He was a leading politician from the 1890s' until his death.
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    klondike gold rush

    a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899.
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    Social Gospel

    A protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century
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    Muckraker

    Reform minded fournalist wrote largely for popular magazines and worked to expose social ills and corperate and political coruption.
  • Andrew Carniage

    Andrew Carniage
    He lead the expansion of steel industry in america. He was also a high profile philanthropist who gave 90% of his fortune to charity. He built Pittsburgs Carniage steel company and sold it to J.P. Morgan for 480$ million.
  • Theodore Resevelt

    Theodore Resevelt
    Theodore was elected as the 26th president of the United states.
  • Purefood and drug act

    Purefood and drug act
    preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
  • Eugene v. Debbs

    Debbs was against the socialist party.
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    Dollar diplomacy

    “Dollar diplomacy” was evident in extensive U.S. interventions in the Caribbean and Central America, especially in measures undertaken to safeguard American financial interests in the region
  • 16th amendment

    allows congress to levy an income tax
  • 17th amendment

    states that congress is composed of two senators from each state
  • Federal reserve act

    The Federal Reserve Act intended to 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
  • 18th amendment

    made selling, producing, andtransporting alchohol illegal, but not the consumption or private possesion of
  • 19th amendment

    allowed women the right to vote
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    Teapot dome scandal

    secret leasing of oil reserves by the secrttary of the interior
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow
    He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers; Leopold and leob for murdering 14-year oldBobby franks
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    she was a co-winner the nobel peace prize.
  • Civil service reform

    The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) applies to labor organizations which represents employees in most agencies of the executive branch of the Federal Government.
  • Third party politics

    Third party politics
    any party contending for votes but failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals
  • Initiative, Referendum, Recall

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