Unit 2: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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  • Susan B Anthony

    an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
  • Nativism

    political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous people
  • Political Machines

    a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives,money or political jobs.
  • Jane Addams

    an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author.
  • Homestead Act

    Provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land.
  • Ida B Wells

    American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement.
  • W.E.B Dubois

    an American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
  • Upton Sinclair

    an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Prohibited immigrating Chinese laborers from america.
  • Homestead Strike

    industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.
  • Klondike Gold rush

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

    a petition signed by a certain number of registered voters can force a government to choose either to enact a law or hold a public vote in the legislature.
  • Muckracker

    reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications.
  • Referendum

    a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.
  • Recall

    a power reserved to the voters that allows the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official.
  • 16th amendment

    allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
  • 18th amendment

    outlawed the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
  • 19th amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

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