The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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    Susan B. Anthony

    American social reformer and women's rights activist.
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    Nativism

    A policy that supports the natives, may also include the support of immigration.
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    Jane Addams

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

    provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land
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    Ida B. Wells

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

    Sociologist, socialist, historian, and civil right activist. He is the most important black protest leader in the united states during the first half of the 20th century.
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    Upton Sinclair

    American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines were designed to control or keep a particular group or political party in power.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    A federal law signed by President Chester Arthur to prohibit immigration of the Chinese.
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    Muckraker

    any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing.
  • Homestead Strike

    Workers were discharged from the Amalgamted Association of Iron and steel workers. A violent labor protest, military would sometimes be called in for support.
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Migration estimates 100,000 prospectors to the region of Yukon.
  • Initiative

    A power to reserve voters to propose legislation by petition that would enact a city charter.
  • Referendum

    A general vote by the electorate on a single political question.
  • Recall

    Power reserved to the voters that allows the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official.
  • 16th Amendment

    Congress to levy a tax on income from any source without apportioning it among the states and without regard to the census.
  • 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.