Key Terms

By lydberberich@leisdstudent.ws

  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and feminist activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

    It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration.

  • Andrew Carnegie

  • Jane Addams

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • Eugene V. Debbs

  • Upton Sinclair

  • Ida B. Wells

  • Clarence Darrow

  • William Jennings Bryan

  • 16th Amendment

  • 18th Amendment

  • Manifest Destiny

  • Immigration & the American Dream

  • Urbanization

  • Populism & Progrssivism

    The populist movement started during the 1880's. Farmers or those associated with agriculture believed industrialists and bankers controlled the government and making the policy against the farmers. Farmers become united to protect their interests. They even created a major political party.