Unit 3 Gilded Age & Progressive era

  • Political Machine

    city government were often run by corrupt political machine
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    educator of the deaf
  • Nativism

    dislike of foreigners
  • ida b wells

    was one of the main tactics used to terrorize african american especially in the south
  • The gilded age

    the entrepreneurs were able to reap huge profits for themselves
  • Susan B anthony

    A prominent reformer, attempted to vote in Rochester, New York
  • Industrialism

    US wanted to jump to a lead in industrialization ahead of britian
  • Samuel Gompers

    founded American Federation of Labor
  • Bessemer steel production

    The bessemer made the production of steel more economic.
  • Haymarket riot

    The Haymarket affair a bombing that took place
  • Settlement house

    institution in an downtown area
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    the purpose of this federal law was to stop monopolies engaging in unfair practices that prevented fair competition
  • Insterstate commerce act

    The court ruled that only congress had the power to regulate interstate commerce
  • Jane Addams

  • Andrew Carnegie

    America's richest and most powerful man
  • Labor Strikes

    Homestead act in 1892
  • William Jenning Byran

    His cross gold speech pleased farmers and bankers
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    A migration to north-western canda
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    He took steps to free his state from corruption
  • Robber Barons

    ruthless tactics he use to destroy competition and to keep their workers wages low
  • Social Gossip

    movement called for social reforms including the safe working conditions
  • pure food and drug act

    an act for preventing sale or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors
  • Jacob riis

    danish american social reformer, journalist, and photographer
  • Upton Sinclair

    In the jungle described the unsanitary practices of meat packing industry
  • Muckraker

    characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    promoted Americans foreign policy goals
  • initiative, referendum, recall

    Three powers reserved to enable voters by petition
  • 17th amendment

    Senators were elected directly by the people
  • 16th amendment

    allows congress to charge a income tax without diving it among the states
  • Federal Reserve Act

    reformed the banking industry by establishing 12 regional federal reserve banks
  • 18th amendment

    forbid liquors in the united states
  • 19th amendment

    making the united states a true democracy
  • tea pot dome scandal

    uncovered just after hardings death in 1923
  • clarence darrow

    represented scopes at the monkey trail on evolution
  • Eugene v Debbs

    one of the founding members of the industrial workers of the world
  • tenement

    single room apartment