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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. Without her women may not have the rights that they have today. -
Jacob Riis
He crusaded for the establishment of settlement houses, public parks and playgrounds, and other reforms to improve the lives of those in New York City's slums. -
Samuel Gompers
He was an English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor. -
Eugene V. Debbs
He was the president of the American Railway Union and a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Jane Addams
She was the leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She was a Progressive reformer and the most prominent advocate for the settlement house movement, which was dedicated to improving social conditions for immigrants and other residents of urban slums. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells, was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt was a loud and effective advocate for trust-busting the breaking up of enormous monopolies that had controlled prices and prevented competition. He also advocated for fair trade and pro-labor laws, including a decreased workweek, child labor restrictions, and workplace safety rules. -
Robber Barons
This is a term used by people when men become rich with actually do things. It was originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who were accused of using unscrupulous methods to get rich. -
Social Gospel
This was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair was a famous American writer and essayist whose book The Jungle, an exposé of Chicago's meatpacking industry. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie a name infamous with big business. He is seen as one of the great business moguls of America. He came from rags to riches, and eventually dominated the steel industry. -
Settlement House
This was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the U.S. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Riot was viewed a setback for the organized labor movement in America, which was fighting for such rights as the eight-hour workday. -
Interstate Commerce Act 1887
This was a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Bessemer Steel Production
This was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This is a act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. This act was passed the U.S. congress. -
Klondike Gold Rush
This was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
Industrialization
This is the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. This was an big impactment of the Progressive Era. -
Tenement
A tenement is a multi-occupancy building of any sort. -
Nativism
Nativism is the political position of preserving status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. -
Populism & Progressivism
Both were based on the people's dissatisfaction with government and its inability to deal effectively in addressing the problems of the day. -
Muckraker
This term was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
Dollar Diplomacy
This was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
16th Amendments
This amendment allows the federal government to levy collect an income tax from all Americans -
18th Amendments
This Amendment caused the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
Political Machines
This was a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. -
19th Amendment
This Amendment provides men and women with equal voting rights. -
Initative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative is the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do.A Referendum isa general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. Recall isa procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended. -
17th Amendment
This Amendment is for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
This was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from -
Alexander Graham Bell
He was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. -
Federal Reserve Act
This act created the current Federal Reserve System. Congress developed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability
