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Unit 2 - The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony

    American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
  • Nativism

    Nativism

    the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams

    second woman to receive the Peace Prize. She founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells

    American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    required by the government to have ownership of land/property
  • W. E. B. DuBois

    W. E. B. DuBois

    American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important Black protest leader
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair

    Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
  • Homestead Strike 1892

    Homestead Strike 1892

    Homestead Strike, also called Homestead riot, violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush

    Canadian gold rush of the late 1890s.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines

    politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group
  • Referendum

    Referendum

    electoral devices by which voters may express their wishes with regard to government policy or proposed legislation.
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker

    American writers, also known as the pre-world 1
  • Recall

    Recall

    a procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended
  • Initiative

    Initiative

    The referendum and initiative are elections in which the preferences of the community are assessed on a particular issue;
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    the Constitution of the United States permitting a federal income tax.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors".
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    guarantees all American women the right to vote