History - Unit 3 (The Gilded Age)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

An organization that called for the economic and educational advancement of African Americans.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Took a direct approach to racial injustice by studying and publicizing cases.

19th Amendment

Granted American women the right to vote.

Ida B. Wells

Journalist who wrote articles about the unequal education of African Americans

Booker T. Washington

Important African American leader born into slavery before becoming a respected educator.

Alice Paul

Founded what would become the National Women’s Party (NWP).

National Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

Promoted the cause of Women’s Suffrage, founded by Elizabeth Stanton and Suzan B. Anthony.

18th Amendment

Banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

Capitalism

An economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods.

Socialism

A system in which a government owns and operated a country’s means of production.

Worker’s Compensation Laws

Guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

One of the events that led to the passage of laws improving factory safety standards.

Referendum

Permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed by a government body.

Initiative

A procedure that allows voters to propose a new law by collecting signatures for a petition

Recall

To remove an official before the end of their term

17th Amendment

Allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators.

Muckrackers

Journalists who “raked up” and exposed the filth of society.

Progressives

Reformers looking to improve society in the late 1800’s

Jane Adams

Established a settlement house with a kindergarten and playground, won a Nobel Peace Prize for her actions.

Florence Kelley

An important reformer at Hull House, visited sweatshops and wrote about the problems there.

Hull House

the most famous settlement house of the period.

Settlement Houses

Neighborhood houses in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities.

Jacob Riis

Became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York City tenements.

Vertical Integration

To own all components/steps in one general field.

Horizontal Integration

To own all competition in one field.

16th Amendment

Allows the federal government to impose taxes based on citizen’s incomes.

Woodrow Wilson

Democratic candidate who won against Roosevelt and Taft

Progressive Party

Formed by Roosevelt, it was a separate party nicknames the “Bull Moose Party”

William Howard Taft

Roosevelt’s secretary of war who later took his place as president.

Conservation

The protection of nature and it’s resources.

Pure Food and Drug Act

Laws that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of mislabeled or contaminated foods.

Theodore Roosevelt

Took office after president Mckinley was killed.

Angel Island

Processing center for Chinese immigrants in San Francisco

Ellis Island

Processing center for European immigrants in New York