Unit 3 Glided Age & Progressive Era Key Terms Research

  • Nativism

  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow
    He was an American lawyer how was significant for using the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against the teachings of the Bible creationism
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan
    was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee.trying to run for President of the United States.
  • Ida B.Wells

    Ida B.Wells
    She was a African American journalist and women and immigrant or colored activist who is most famously known for Wells wring her famous speech called"Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases." Which showed the social factors and causes behind lynch mobs and irrational fear of black men, and also protested racial inequality before the law which paved the way to many movements in freeing colored men.
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    She was a leader, abolitionist and activist how fought for the rights and liberties of women everywhere and how is mostly know for her role or contrubition in the women suffrage movement in the creation off the 19th amendment which allowed women to vote.
  • Settlement House

  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    He was an industrialist how led the expansion of the railroad industry in America that revolutionized the way we manufacture and create new things based on his influence in starting this business in the late 18th early 19th century.
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    Was middle-class woman how help lead and uplift the urban immigrants and was one of the first college educated women. She also established the Hull House in Chicago which is a most is one of her main contributions or influence in American settlement based on the education and artistic facility which was the first of its kind and eventually grew over the years.
  • Eugene V Debbs

    Eugene V Debbs
    Was a Union leader in America how spoke for how fought for radicalism for railroad workers.This lead him to founding the American Railway Union and he was also caught up in the Pullman strike of 1894 and sentenced to 6 months in jail, as a result of his time in jail he became a socialist and fought for the freedom of immigrants and many other things.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Hew was a military type of president how helped influence the strength and evolution of the Us navy and he was part of the rough riders during the Spanish American war and is also famous for his well known policy called the "big stick policy" towards war with other countries.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair
    He was an American novelist who exposed the horrors of the meatpacking industry and its terrible conditions.that helped influence health inspection laws and specialists.But his book originally was create sympathy for immigrants who worked or struggled in these terrible conditions.
  • 16th Amendments

    16th Amendments
    The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.
  • 18th

    18th
    the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal. It was ratified on January 16, 1919.
  • Robert Barons

  • Muckraker