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17 Amendments
Established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states -
Political Machines
City government were often run by corrupt political machine. -
Social Gospel
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. -
Bessemer Steel Production
First inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace -
Tenement
A run-down apartment building or to a slum. -
Nativism
Political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants -
Knights of Labor
The union united skilled and unskilled laborers in the countryside and cities in one group -
Robber Barons
Person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices -
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Populism & Progressivism
Movement that responded to he pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms -
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Gilded Age
Period of transformation in the economy, technology, government, and social customs of America -
Samuel Gompers
President of the American Federation of Labor -
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventing and patenting the first practical telephone -
Great Railroad Strike
Began after Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year. -
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Industrialization
Congress and the northern states to build more railroads and increased demand for a variety of manufactured goods. -
Susan B. Anthony
Supported the Women's Suffrage Amendment -
American Federation of Labor
seeking better wages, working conditions, shorter working days, and the creation of all-union workplaces for its members -
Haymarket Riot
Aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago -
Interstate Commerce Act
United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry -
Jane Addams
she open a settlement house opened to recently arrived European immigrants. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
First measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts -
Dollar Diplomacy
A form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Jacob Riis
First book 'How the other half lives' exposed the appalling social conditions of the time -
Andrew Carnegie
Founded the Carnegie Steel Corporation. -
Ida. B Wells
led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States -
Homestead Strike
Industrial lockout and strike which culminated in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. -
Eugene V. Debbs
He helped organize the American Railway Union and became its first president. -
Pullman Strike
Nationwide railroad strike in the United States and a turning point for US labor law. -
William Jennings Bryan
He emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
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. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Took steps to free their state government from corruption and the influence of big business. -
Industrial Workers of the World
Opposed to what they saw as "class collaboration" by the American Federation of Labor -
Upton Sinclair
Published the JungleCongress passes Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, and Hepburn Act -
Muckraker
Characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt -
Pure Food And Drug Act
Preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender. -
18th Admendments
Effectively established the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
A bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G -
Clarence Darrow
defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks. -
Settlement House
An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community. -
16th Admendments
Allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
19 Amendments
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
