Amendments
What is the 19th Amendment?
Women's Voting
What is a labor union?
A group of workers coming to getter to get better benefits (wages, hours, etc).
What is Prohibiton?
Banning of alcohol
What is a muckraker?
Journalist exposing the working/living/corrupt/ general gross-ness of the gilded age.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Prohibition
What is Laissez-faire?
No government intervention
What group of supported the 18th amendment?
Temperence movement
What is a political machine?
A corrupt political group running cities during the gilded/progressive eras (restricting economic growth of cities)
What is the 17th Amendment?
Direct election of Senators
What is a monopoly?
A business is cornering the market on a product
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
Supporting moral improvement, no child labor, public health programs, tied together good work and being good with God
Who ran Tammany Hall?
Boss Tweed
What is the 16th Amendment?
Income Tax
What did the Sherman Anti-trust act accomplish?
Monopolies were illegal
What did the suffrage movement support?
Women's Voting
What was the impact of settlement houses (hull house)?
What is the 14th Amendment?
Citizenship
What is the Patronage system?
Political bosses giving jobs to people (friends/unqualified people) who helped them get elected
What was the Haymarket riot over?
8-hr work day
What was the Pullman strike over?