Unit 2 - The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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  • Nativism

    Nativism was founded by organizations to deal with immigration.

  • Homestead Act

    Any adult citizen could claim 160 acres of government land. Only a few farmers and laborers could afford to build a farm or get necessary things like livestock and tools.

  • Muckraker

    It provided detailed journalistic accounts of the political economic corruption and social hardships from the power of big businesses. American writers identified with pre-world war 1 reform and expose literature.