key terms research

  • susan B. Anthony

    she lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
  • Andrew carnegie

    He led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry.
  • Eugene v. Debbs

    he became president of the American Railway Union. was a successful strike for higher wages against the Great Northern Railway in 1894
  • Teddy roosevelt

    he served as the 26th president of the united states and he also served as the 25th vice president of the united states.
  • Jane Addams

    she led the American settlement house movement, Author of numerous articles and books,
  • Homestead Act

    was one of the most significant and enduring events in the westward expansion of the United States.
  • Haymarket Riot

    a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
  • The Dawes Act

  • Upton sinclair

    he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 .was one of the most important muckrakers writers.
  • Muckraker

    A group of writers
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act
  • Amendment 16

    for taxes to moved under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government an individual state’s respective population or gross amount of income.
  • Amendment 17

    the importance of each and every vote in Senate races will be on full display, just as is our Constitution’s history as an increasingly inclusionary, and fundamentally progressive, document. It gave Americans the right to vote directly for their Senators, thereby strengthening the link between citizens and the federal government.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    was to create a degree of financial stability. the Fed to regulate and supervise banks and to develop and implement monetary policy.
  • Amendment 19

    the movement for women’s rights began to organize at the national level. that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
  • William Jennings Bryan

    was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States.
  • Tea pot Dome scandal

    The scandal involved ornery oil tycoons poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales a murder-suicide a womanizing president and a bagful of bribery cash delivered on the sly.
  • Amendment 18

    it was the first Amendment to impose a date by which it was to be ratified. If the deadline was not met the Amendment would be discarded. and also the 18th Amendment was quickly ratified into law.
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    The discovery of gold in the Yukon in 1896 led to a stampede to the Klondike region between 1897 and 1899.