Chapter 1
The Period from 1877 to about 1900 which was marked by industrial growth, great wealth for a few, massive immigration, urbanization, and political corruption.
The Gilded Age
An 1862 law passed to encourage settlement of the Great Plains. It granted 160 acres of public land for free as long as the settler stayed on the land for five years and cultivated and farmed, it
Homestead Act
A reform movement to stop the public's consumption of alcohol
Prohibition
Outlawed the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol, was adopted in 1919
18th Amendment
The concentration of people in cities
Urbanization
An 1887 law created the ICC and gave it power to regulate railroads that operated across state lines
Interstate Commerce Act
A group of journalists and other writers brought many of society's ills to public attention
Muckrakers
The Protestant movement for the late 1800s and early 1900s that urged believers to work for social justice
Social Gospel
A court case in which The Supreme Court upheld segregation laws, which remained in effect, particularly in the South, for many decades
Plessy v. Ferguson
Empowers voters to approve or reject new laws passed by a legislative body, was part of Progressive Era efforts to expand democracy
Referendum
Gave women the right to vote in 1920
The 19th Amendment
A political movement marked by demands for more government control of business, support for ordinary Americans, and political reforms
Populism
Public outcry over unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry caused Congress to pass this act in 1906
The Pure Food and Drug Act
One means by which Progressives hoped to clean up government which empowered voters to remove elected officials from office before the end their terms
recall
An economic system is one in which the government does not interfere with individuals involved in free enterprise.
laissez-faire
The Progressive reformers' efforts to regulate and stabilize the nation's banking system resulted in passage of this Act
Federal Reserve Act
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson created _____________ in the executive branch to manage the nation's parks and monuments
The National Park Service