U.S History FInal Unit 4

Gilded

a time of rapid growth and increase in wealth, often poorly distributed and covering up the more troubling truths underneath

Muckracker

They were journalists whose goal was to show the problems happening behind the scenes, exposing the truth of problems happening in America. 

Progressive

ignores civil rights and injustice

Robber barons

a pejorative (negative/insulting) term for one of the powerful 19th-century American industrialists and financiers who made fortunes by monopolizing huge industries through the formation of trusts, engaging in unethical business practices, exploiting workers, and paying little heed to their customers or competition.