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Susan B. Anthony
Women's rights activist -
Robber Barons
People who amassed wealth and power during the progressive era. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented and patented the first practical telephone -
Jacob Riis
American reporter, social reformer, and photographer. He wrote "How the Other Half Lives" -
Political Machines
Authoritative boss or small groups command other businesses -
Samuel Gompers
Most significant person in the American labor movement -
Nativism
Favoring native inhabitants over immagrants -
Eugene V. Debbs
Elected as a democrat to the Indiana General Assembly -
Bessemer steel production
First inexpensive industrial production of steel -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
William Jennings Bryan
American orator and politician from Nebraska -
Ida B. Wells
African American, investigative journalist, educator, and leader in the civil rights movement -
Industrialization
Development of industry -
Upton Sinclair
American writer who wrote close to 100 books -
Labor Unions
Organized labor unions fought for better wages -
Settlement houses
where volunteer middle-class settlement workers would live. -
Haymarket Riot
Aftermath of a bombing that happened during a labor demonstration -
Interstate Commerce Act
Regulated the railroad industry -
Jane Addams
She was known as the "mother" of social work and co-founded Chicago's Hull House. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Regulated competition between enterprises -
Andrew Carnegie
He started Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he later sold to J.P. Morgan. -
populism and Progressivism
Populists were farmers and Progressives were more urban -
Klondike Gold Rush
Large migration to the Klondike region of the Yukon Territory to find gold -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Three powers given to the voters to allow them to allow or repeal an elected official from office -
The Gilded Age
The US between 1870 and 1900 -
Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call to social reform -
Tenement
Multi-room building or apartment -
Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of the united states -
Muckraker
Reform-minded American journalists -
Pure Food and Drug Act
First series of significant consumer protection laws -
Dollar Diplomacy
A country using it's financial power to spread international influence -
16th Amendment
Allows the American Government to collect taxes from all Americans -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of congress that created the Federal Reserve System -
17th Amendment
Two senators are elected for each state for six years -
18th amendment
Prohibition of alcohol -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
A bribery scandal that involved the administration of the United States, President Warren G. -
Labor strikes
Workers refused to work and demanded a higher pay -
19th Amendment
Prevents the states from denying the right for citizens to vote
