Unit 3 Test Review: Progressive Era & Gilded Age

Vocabulary flashcards covering key Progressive Era reforms, constitutional amendments, prominent figures, muckraker accomplishments, Populist goals, and Gilded Age review concepts.

Progressive Era

An era focused on increased voting rights/participation, labor practices, equality (gender, race, & income level), and conservation.

Trust Busting

The Progressive reform used to fix the problem of dominant corporate monopolies.

13th Amendment

Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery.

14th Amendment

Constitutional amendment that granted U.S. citizenship to all.

15th Amendment

Constitutional amendment that granted African American (AA) voting rights.

16th Amendment

Constitutional amendment that authorized the government to levy an income tax.

17th Amendment

Constitutional amendment that established the direct election of senators.

18th Amendment

Constitutional amendment that enacted the prohibition of alcohol.

19th Amendment

Constitutional amendment that granted women voting rights.

W.E.B. DuBois

Founder of the NAACP who fought for racial equality.

Susan B. Anthony

Women's rights leader whose efforts led to the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Jane Addams

Founder of Hull House who fought for the poor and women's rights.

Upton Sinclair

Author who wrote The Jungle and spurred reform for the meatpacking (food) industry.

Ida B. Wells

Journalist who exposed lynching and racial violence/inequality.

Muckrakers

Journalists whose accomplishments led to the Pure Food and Drug Act, child labor laws, new constitutional amendments, and equal rights (rich vs poor).

State Reforms

Electoral mechanisms—specifically initiative, referendum, and recall—that allow citizens a more direct role in government by voting.

Third Party Effects

The electoral impact in which third parties draw votes away from the two major political parties.

Populist Party Goals

A political platform calling for the coinage of silver, a graduated income tax (more $ more taxes), regulation of railroad shipping fees, and the direct election of senators.

Organized Labor (Knights of Labor and AFL)

Labor unions formed during industrialization in response to low wages and low skill requirements that allowed workers to be easily replaced.

Andrew Carnegie

Industrialist known for philanthropic causes aimed at advancing society through the establishment of libraries and educational institutions.

Transcontinental Railroad & Homestead Act

Historical factors and legislation that caused Americans to move to the Western U.S.