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Susan B. Anthony
Devoted to the women's right movement. -
Andrew Carnegie
An American industrial leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman strike. -
Teddy Roosevelt
A leader of the Rough Riders in Cuba. -
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic candidate ran for the president most famously in 1896. -
Jane Addams
a middle-class women dedicated to uplifting the urban masses. -
Homestead Act
In 1862 congress passed the homestead act offering 160 acres of free land to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household. -
Upton Sinclair
Muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The jungle. -
Haymarket Riot
A demonstration in Chicago's Haymarket Square to protest. -
The Dawes Act
Federal law that provided families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. -
Klondike Gold Rush
An attempt by an estimated 100,000 people to travel to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1897 and 1899. -
Muckraker
journalists who wrote about injustices and exposed the filth of society. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Was a key of Progressive Era legislation; purpose was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support. -
Federal Reserve Act
Established in December 1913. It is the act that created the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the United States, which was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson. it regulated banking to help smaller banks stay in business. -
16th, 17th, 18, 19th Amendments
16th Amendment- Federal income tax. 17th Amendment- Direct election of senators. 18th Amendment- Prohibition of alcohol. 19th Amendment- Ratified giving women the right to vote. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Secretary of the interior leased government land in California.
