Unit 3 Key Terms

  • Susan B Anthony

    Fought for women's suffrage and was a woman's activist.
  • Political Machines

    is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses
  • Clarence Darrow

    an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
  • Ida B. Wells

    an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement.
  • The Gilded Age

    The age of making stuff
  • Klondike Gold Rush

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

    Removal of the Native Americans to let the US settlers into the land.
  • Muckraker

    refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism
  • Suffrage

    The right to vote
  • Nativism

    "Americans" who wanted no immigrants in the country.
  • Teddy Roosevelt

    26th president. The only BAE among Presidents. Helped among the US for making the US become what it is today.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    He was a Scottish American that led America into its Steel production expansion.
  • Eugene V. Debs

  • Jane Addams

    Led women untli her death and got women's suffrage and many other stuff for women.
  • Upton Sinclair

    an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres.
  • Manifest Destiny

    was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.