Unit 3 Gilded Age & Progressive Era

  • Industrialization

    Industrialization

    Development of industries in a country.
  • Nativism

    Nativism

    Being in favor of the immigrants or Native Americans.
  • Bessemer Steel Production

    Bessemer Steel Production

    First inexpensive industrial process for the making of steel.
  • Tenement

    Tenement

    A house or block of apartments, rooms forming seperation within residence.
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony

    Pioneer crusader for the women's suffrage act. Founder and president of the National American Women Suffrage Association.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    Leader of the American steel industry. Also industrialist and philanthropist for America.
  • Labor Strikes

    Labor Strikes

    Work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
  • Labor Unions

    Labor Unions

    An organized association of workers.
  • Social Gospel

    Social Gospel

    Christian faith practiced as a social reform.
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell

    Inventor of AT&T company.
  • Samuel Gompers

    Samuel Gompers

    Founder of the American Federation of Labor and served as a President.
  • Haymarket Riot

    Haymarket Riot

    A rally happened after a bomb was thrown at the cops.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Regulating the railroad industry.
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams

    Co-founder of the first social settlement house in America known as the "Hull House". Also first woman to receive the Nobel peace prize.
  • Settlement House

    Settlement House

    House for the 12 million European immigrants, founded of Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells

    African American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led the anti-lynching crusade in US.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines

    Political administrator in control of a small organization.
  • Jacob Riis

    Jacob Riis

    American newspaper reporter. Shocked people with his factual evidence.
  • Robber Barons

    Robber Barons

    A person who has become rich through ruthless business practices. Increased public support within the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • Populism & Progressivism

    Populism & Progressivism

    Rich people being seperated from modern society.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    First act to outlaw monopolistic business practices to gain trust.
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan

    Lawyer and politician who who advocated free silver. Also was a teacher in a Tennessee high school. Unsuccessfully ran for President.
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush

    A migration by 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region.
  • Initiative, Referendum, Recall

    Initiative, Referendum, Recall

    Three powers to enable voters to remove an elected official from office.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Once governor, Then later president shortly after. Leader of the grup "Rough Riders" in the Spanish-American war.
  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age

    An era of rapid economic growth in the North and West.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair

    US writer arguing for social reform.
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker

    Someone talking about the corruption of the political and business leaders.
  • Pure Food And Dog Act

    Pure Food And Dog Act

    Preventing misbranded or poisonous food or drugs.
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Dollar Diplomacy

    Using financial power to extend international influence.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    Allows congress to levy on income from any source without breaking any state rules in the process.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Providing a safer financial system.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    The popular election of the US Senators by the people of the states.
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow

    Lawyer who worked as a defense counsel in cases in crazy criminals that got him promoted to the American legal history.
  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs

    Candidate for US congress. Speech denouncing America lead to his second arrest. Under the Sedition Act, he was sentenced 10 years.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Stopping the sale or transportation of alcohol.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Gave women the right to vote.
  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Bribing President Warren G. Harding .