Acts
This act encouraged people to move westward by offering 160 acres and living on the land for 5 years with a $10 registration fee.
What is the Homestead Act?
These people sought to expose the corruption in big businesses and show the dangers of working conditions average people faced.
Who are muckrakers?
This guy invented the Lightbulb (and it's not Tesla).
This landmark court case created the idea of "Separate but equal" and led to more segregation in the south.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This movement sought to eliminate alcohol and encouraged people to refrain from overindulgence in earthly pleasures before it was cool during prohibition.
What is the temperance movement?
This Act gave labor unions the right to exist and stopped corporations from utilizing unfair practices.
These two women fought for Women's suffrage by using hunger strikes, picketing, and marches.
Who are Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt?
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This amendment specifies that "all persons born or naturalized in the US... are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
What is the 14th Amendment?
Utilized by Theodore Roosevelt, this is the idea that people need to actively manage, protect, and wisely use nature and natural resources.
What is the Conservation Movement?
This 1887 act gave Indian households 160 acres of reservation land to farm while leaving the rest of the land to be sold to whites.
What is the Dawes Act?
This was a National movement of labor unions in the United States that united to support laborers and unions across America on the federal Level.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This philanthropist helped found the Hull House and was inspired by the Social Gospel to use her money wisely.
Who is Jane Addams?
Farmers united and fought unfair business practices in this political movement.
What is Populism?
This is the term that is used to describe the era where everything appeared good on the outside but had a rotten core due to corrupt business and political practices.
What is the Gilded Age?
This was the first Federal Act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This 1890s Armed Labor uprising happened in Anderson County TN after coal mine owners started to replace their laborers with convict labor and move their mines.
What is the Coal Creek Labor Saga?
This person was a reporter for the Memphis Free Speech Newspaper who wrote extensively against lynching in the U.S.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This domestic program from Teddy Roosevelt focused on conservation, law, and protecting the consumer.
What is the "Square Deal?"
What is nativism?
Signed into Law by Woodrow Wilson, this Act established the Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the United States.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Killing 123 women and girls and 23 men, this factory fire was the deadliest industrial disaster in New York and would lead to the creation of standards for workplace safety across the United States.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This person led a political machine at Tammany Hall where he offered services in exchange for votes; however, these machines were corrupt and deceitful to the people and hardly ever helped people.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
Signed into law by William Howard Taft, this arm of the executive branch was established to promote and protect the welfare of working people, improve working conditions, and enhance opportunities for profitable employment.
What is the Department of Labor?
What is the Social Gospel?