The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

  • Nativism

    Nativism

    Is an american policy of promoting or protecting the interest of native or indigenous inhabitants over those immigrants
    *A reaction against immigrants
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Homestead Act are several laws in the U.S by which an applicant could obtain ownership of government land or the public domain.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    The Act suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines

    Political Machines were designed in the late 1800's and early 1900's to keep a particular political party or group of people in power
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by a estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon. North West of Canada
  • W.E.B DuBois

    W.E.B DuBois

    William Edward Bernhardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist and was the most important black protest leader during the first half of the 20th century
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement.
  • Referendum

    Referendum

    A Referendum is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker

    A group of reform minded journalists identified with pre- WWl reform and exposed writing
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    The 18th Amendment established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States of America.
  • Recall

    Recall

    Recall is a power reserved to the voters that allows the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official.
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams

    Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California.
  • Initiative

    Initiative

    Initiative is a power reserved to the voters to propose legislation, by petition, that would enact, amend or repeal a City Charter or Code provision.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    The 16th amendment allows congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to a vote.