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Tenement
They are apartment houses that barely meet or fail to meet the minimum standards of safety, sanitation, and comfort. They are also urban dwellings occupied by impoverished families. -
Labor Unions
It's an industrial sector, organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions. The labor movement led efforts to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired. -
Labor Strikes
It was the first major labor organization in the United States. It was originated as a secret organization meant to protect its members from employer retaliation.They hired a variety of workers. -
Political Machines
The most infamous example of machine politics was Tammany Hall, headquarters of the Democratic Party in New York City. Headed by William Marcy Tweed, the Tammany Hall political machine of the late 1860s and early 1870s used graft, bribery, and rigged elections to bilk the city of over $200 million. -
The Gilded Age
The Glided Age is an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As American wages were much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants. -
Bessemer Steel Production
Civil War and the beginning of the 20th century, the Second Industrial Revolution marked the transformation from craft production to mass production in the United States. American factories began churning out all kinds of consumer and industrial goods. -
Samuel Gompers
Gompers Led the labor movement in achieving solid gains for workers. -
Haymarket Riot
A labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing. -
Interstate Commerce Act
United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Jane Addams
Jane was Co-founder of the Hull House, which served as the first social settlement house in America. Then she was the first American Women to receive the Nobel Prize. -
Settlement House
The first settlement house in the United States was Hull House in Chicago, founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in 1889. Settlement houses reflected a broader commitment to social reform during the Progressive Era. -
Susan B. Anthony
Her anti-slavery efforts aided the abolishment of slavery in the United States. She was committed to social equality and was also a civil rights activist and abolitionist.Supports Women's Suffrage Amendment March 8, 1884 . -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Based on the constitutional power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. -
Jacob Riis
Crusaded for the establishment of settlement houses, public parks and playgrounds, and other reforms to improve the lives of those in New York City's slums. -
William Jennings Bryan
He stared at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Gold rush immigration to and for gold prospecting, along the Klondike River near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada after gold was discovered there in the late 19th century. law granted immediate U.S. citizenship to all Native American Indians born in the United States. -
Nativism
Advocates of Nativism hold the belief that certain skills or abilities are "native" or engrained into the brain at birth. -
Alexander Graham Bell
He was the one to invent the Telephone. -
Robber Barons
Robber Barons is a wealthy elite of the late 19th century consisted of industrialists who amassed their fortunes as robber barons and captains of industry. -
Populism & Progressivism
Movement that occurred during the outbreaks of the workers union after the civil war. -
Muckraker
Muckraker were reporters, authors, and critics who sought to expose the evils and injustices of Gilded Age society, hoping to expose such social ills before they strangled democracy. -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair gained public notoriety in 1906 with his novel The Jungle. He wrote books for a living. He ended up winning the Pulitzer for Fiction. Upton Sinclair was also a polemicist for socialism, health, temperance, free speech, and worker rights -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Accredited to a book called 'The Jungle' that was written by the Progressive author Upton Sinclair. ... Upton Sinclair was reviled by the industry owners as one of the Muckrakers of the Progressive Era. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. Proponents of an initiative, referendum, or recall effort must apply for an official petition serial number from the Town Clerk. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Intervention became the model for the new century's Dollar Diplomacy, based on a complex vision of the way that American -
16th Amendments
United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
17th amendments
Direct Election of U.S. Senators. Americans did not directly vote for senators for the first 125 years of the Federal Government. The Constitution, as it was adopted in 1788, stated that senators would be elected by state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
System as the central bank of the United States to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Andrew Carnegie
He left the railroads and started to focus on his interest including Key Stone Bridge Company. Andrew Carnegie bought the Carnegie Steel Cooperation. -
18th amendments
Prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation” of alcohol. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Was the 25th Vice President. He was also the youngest to be a United States President. He created Central Park.At 42 years, 10 months, 18 days old he was the youngest man to hold the office of president. In 1912 he ran for president again for the Bull Moose Party. -
Industrialization
Eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government. -
19th amendments
U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. -
Social Gospel
Was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. -
Eugene V. Debs
Debbs was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. He organized the Social Democratic Party and was five times a presidential candidate -
Clarence Darrow
He scorned society and its norms, and this seeped into his practice of the law. He would employ any trick to save a client. (An Attorney) -
Ida B. Wells
An African American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African American justice.
