Unit 6 Vocabulary (Gilded Age & Progressive Era)

To change or to improve something

• Yellow Journalism

• Nativisim

• Reform

• Square Deal

The protection, preservation, management, or restoration of wildlife and of natural resources such as forests, soil, and water

• Conservation

• Muckrakers

• Tenements

• Reform

A buisnessman who used their fortune to positively contribute to society in some way

• Monopoly

• Muckrakers

• Robber Baron

• Captain of Industry

A population shift from rural to urban areas

• Urbanization

• Nativism

• Discrimination

• Suffrage

A total ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor throughout the United States (1919-1933)

• Almshouse

• Suffrage

• Equality vs. Equity

• Prohibition

Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers

• Yellow Journalism

• Jim Crow Lws

• Muckrakers

• Labor Union

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

• Jim Crow Laws

• Suffrage

• Segregation

• Square Deal

The right to vote

• Captain of Industry

• Tenements

• Muckrakers

• Suffrage

Equity vs Equality

• Complete control of a product or business by one person or group

• Giving everyone what they need to be successful vs. treating everyone the same

• The support of residents of the United States rather than immigrants or newcomers

• Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived.

Monopoly

• The protection, preservation, management, or restoration of wildlife and of natural resources such as forests, soil and water

• Complete control of a product or business by one person or group.

• Laws that mandated racial segregation in public facilities in public facilities, these laws were especially popular throughout the south

• A group of writers, journalists & critics who exposed corporate & political corruption.