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Unit 3 Gilded Age & Progressive Era

  • Bessemer steel prodution

    Bessemer steel prodution

    the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace
  • Labor Unions

    Labor Unions

    an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age

    It was when America was progressing to new heights economically from outside, but on the inside there were a lot of corruption this our economic system.
  • Industrialization

    Industrialization

    the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
  • Robber Barons

    Robber Barons

    a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines

    A political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their efforts.
  • Labor Strikes

    Labor Strikes

    is a work stoppage, caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
  • social gospel

    social gospel

    sought out the abolition of child labors and safer working condition
  • Tenement

    Tenement

    a multi-occupancy building of any sort. However, in the United States, it has come to refer most specifically to a run-down apartment building or to a slum.
  • Nativism

    Nativism

    political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
  • Settlement House

    Settlement House

    an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
  • Haymarket Riot

    Haymarket Riot

    Was a riot to make work hours 8 hours days
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Prevent people from unfair practices of the railroads
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    The purpose of this federal law was to stop monopolies engaging in unfair practices that prevented fair competition.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    After the civil war Andrew Carnegie invested in ironworks and build a steel mill in Pittsburgh, selling iron and steel to railroad companies and with that money he bought other steel mills and made the Carnegie Steel corporation
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush

    a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Dollar Diplomacy

    the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
  • Populism & Progressivism

    Populism & Progressivism

    Populism aimed to reform the economic system, while Progressivism was focused on bringing the political reforms
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt was a progressive governor in New York who freed his state government from corruption and the influence of big business, he became a president after president McKinley was assassinated and he passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the Meat Inspection Act, The Pure Food and Drug Act, and Increase the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission Act. Worked to conserve the nation's natural resources and withheld federal lands from public sale.
  • Muckrakers

    Muckrakers

    A Group of writer were called this because they raked up the muck of American life
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony

    an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    Regulated the preparation of foods and sale of medicines
  • Initiative Referendum Recall

    Initiative Referendum Recall

    are three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office.
  • 16 amendment

    16 amendment

    gave congress the power to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.
  • 17 Amendment

    17 Amendment

    the right to vote for your Senator
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    created the central bank system of the United State.
  • Jacob Rii

    Jacob Rii

    Photographed conditions of the urban poor. His book examined the condition of the poor in america
  • 18 Amendment

    18 Amendment

    abolish alcohol
  • 19 Amendment

    19 Amendment

    gave the right to vote to all US citizen
  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell

    The person who invented the telephone
  • Samuel Gompers

    Samuel Gompers

    founded the American Federation of Labo
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan

    prosecuted John T. Scopes in the Monkey Trail
  • Eugene V Debs

    Eugene V Debs

    Was the leading candidate for the socialist party
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells

    African-American Leader who worked to end Lynching
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams

    Leader in the settlement house act; Hull House
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow

    representative John Thomas Scopes in the Monkey Trails
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair

    His novel describe the unsanitary practice of the meat-packing industry