Gilded Age & Progressive Era

Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, Jacob Riis are best known as

• social reformers

• congressional leaders

• leaders of industry

• inventors

The muckrakes provided a service to the public in the early 20t century by

• advocating a strong military

• exposing abuses in business and government

• calling for a stronger use of executive power to strengthen civil rights laws

• arousing states to resist Federal authority

During the Progressive Era, the muckrakers were most effective in reaching the public through their

• novels and articles in the popular press

• leadership roles in powerful corporations

• congressional proposals

• participation in political campaigns

The construction of the Eire Canal and Transcontinental Railroads

• were funded by the Chinese

• contributed to the unequal distribution of wealth in the United States

• contributed to the growth of cities and towns

• led to starvation of millions

Invented the telephone

• Bell

• Edison

• Darwin

• Rockefeller

Took photographs of the poor in NYC

• Sinclair

• Norris

• Riis

• Tarbell

16th Amendment

• Income Tax

• Prohibition

• Direct Election of Senators

• Freedom of Speech

17th Amendment

• Direct Election of Senators

• Prohibition

• Income Tax

• Right to bear arms

Dawes Act

• Pushed natives off their land.

• Gave 160 acres of land and citizenship to Native Americans willing to assimilate into American culture.

• Ended the Spanish American War

• Made it illegal to speak negative about the government.

The movement of people to cities.

• Urbanization

• Migration

• Nativism

• Ethnocentrism