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Robber Barons
a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century). -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism aimed to reform the economic system, while Progressivism was focused on bringing the political reforms. -
Susan B. Anthony
An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Andrew Carnegie
A Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. -
Nativism
Nativism is the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
nativsm
The political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Eugen V. Debbs
An American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Clarence Darrow
An American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
Theodore Roosevelt
An American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
William Jennings Bryan
An American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Ida B. Wells
Commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Upton Sinclair
An American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. -
settlement house
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the U.S -
Muckrakers
Used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. ... Investigative journalists view the muckrakers as early influences and a continuation of watchdog journalism. -
17th Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
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. -
18th Amendments
Effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
Jane Addams
Known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
