Unit 3 Gilded Age & Progressive era

  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    The 16th amendment allows the United States government to collect an income tax from all Americans
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    The 18th amendment is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    woman are allowed to vote
  • Nativism

    Nativism

    native inhabitants where favored as opposed to immigrants
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines

    headed by a single boss or small group, that commands enough votes to maintain political control of a city, county, or state.
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony

    she joined the women's rights movement in 1852. she dedicated her life to woman suffrage.
  • Andrew carnegie

    Andrew carnegie

    Carnegie led the expansion of the steel industry in the 19th century and is one of the richest people in the world .He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in britan
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell

    innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. He also founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885
  • Jacob Riis

    Jacob Riis

    American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer, with his book How the Other Half Lives (1890), shocked the readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions in New York City.
  • Eugene V. Debbs

    Eugene V. Debbs

    was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
  • Bessemer Steel Production

    Bessemer Steel Production

    first industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt

    was an American statesman and writer and was the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan

    he was a Democratic and Populist leader, his supporters viewed him as a champion of liberal causes.
  • Jane addams

    Jane addams

    known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist , social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and activist who led the anti lynching crusade
  • Muckraker

    journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
  • Social Gospel

    Social Gospel

    movement led by a group of liberal Protestant in response to the problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age.
  • Period: to

    The Gilded Age

    rapid economic growth especially in the North and West. American wages were much higher than in Europe
  • Upton Sinclair

  • Upton sinclair

    Upton sinclair

    American novelist and polemicist for socialism, his classic muckraking novel The Jungle (1906)
  • Settlement House

    Settlement House

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

    Haymarket Riot

    a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry.
  • Populism & Progressivism

    Populism & Progressivism

    The 1890s and early 1900s saw the establishment of the Populist and Progressive movements, based on the people's dissatisfaction with government and its inability to deal effectively in addressing the problems of the day.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a law passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, which regulates competition among enterprises
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush

    Gold was discovered there by local miners, when news reached, it triggered a stampede of people. Some became wealthy, but the majority went in vain.
  • Robber Barons

    Robber Barons

    19th-century American businessmen who were accused of using unfair methods to get rich, or expand their wealth, for example taking money from government-subsidized shippers
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    Act preventing the manufacture, sale of adulterated or misbranded poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, and for other purposes.
  • 17th Amendments

    The Senate of the United States shall be elected by the people for their state
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    to establish economic stability in the United States by introducing the Central Bank to oversee monetary policy
  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    it revealed an unprecedented level of greed and corruption within the federal government.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote