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Robber Barons
19th-century industrialists who were Captains of Industry" were also called Robber Barons. These people include J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andre Mellon, John D. Rockefeller, etc. This term was made by Thomas Carlyle. -
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie was an industrialist, industrialist, and philanthropist. He led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often noticed as one of the richest people. -
Bessemer Steel Production
Bessemer Steel Production was the first inexpensive industrial method for the mass production of steel. The process came about from the contributions of a lot of investigators before it was used on a broad commercial basis. The process for making steel is by blasting compressed air through molten iron to burn out impurities and excess carbon. -
Jacob Riis
Riis was a social reformer, muckraking journalist and a photographer. He published the book "How the Other Half Lives". In the book he wrote about the slum conditions in New York. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth. In this era, the United States saw growth in industry and technology. But it wasn't all good, it was a time where corrupt, greedy industrialists, bankers and politicians enjoyed extraordinary wealth. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell is mainly known for his invention of the telephone. He was a scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who was credited with inventing and patenting the first telephone. He had company named Bell Telephone Company in 1877. -
Settlement House
The Settlement House is a neighborhood based organization that gives services and activities designed to identify the strengths of people, communities and families. It varies according to the needs of the neighborhoods they are in. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was a socialist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and many other things. He was the Socialist Party candidate for president in 1908, 1912, and 1920. He was also the leader of the labor movement. -
Samuel Gompers
It was because of him that the American labor movement owes its structure and characteristic strategies. Also because of him the AFL became the largest and most influential labor union in the world. He was the first and longest serving president of the AFL. -
Haymarket Riot
This riot was a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square that then turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. As a result, eight people died. -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act is a US law that was made to regulate the railroad industry. It required that the shipping rates had to be reasonable and just, rates had to be published, and many follow ups. It became a law with the support of major political parties and pressure groups. -
Muckraker
This term was used to characterize reform minded journalists, who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They provided accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This act is an antitrust law passed by Congress by president Benjamin Harrison, to prohibit trusts. It is an act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies. -
Ida B Wells
She was a journalist, educator, activist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She fought for sexism, racism, violence, and talked about the conditions of African Americans throughout the south. She was one of the founders of the NAACP. -
Williams Jennings Bryan
Bryan was a speaker, politician, and a Nebraska congressman. In 1896, he was a dominant force in the Democratic Party, but was defeated in his bid by William McKinley. -
Klondike Gold Rush
What made the gold rush was gold being discovered in Yukon by local miners on August 16, 1896. News reached Seattle and San Francisco, it triggered a stampede of prospectors. Some became wealthy, but most of them lost everything they took. -
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
They are three powers made to enable the voters, to propose or revoke legislation or to remove an elected official from office. The first state to adopt the initiative was South Dakota in 1898. -
Populism & Progressivism
The ideas of populism was to form political parties and progressivism was based on the government could be used to better society and . Progressivism is an up-down movement. Populism is a down-up in nature. -
Industrialization
It is the process of converting to a socially economic order where industry is dominant. Manual labor was replaced by mechanized mass production, and craftsmen were replaced by assembly lines. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt was the President of the US, the 25th Vice President and as the 33rd Governor of New York. As a leader of the Republican Party, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era. He is on Mount Rushmore, along with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The act was made for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of spoiled or misbranded or poisonous or harmful foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, etc. -
Dollar Diplomacy
It was a form of foreign policy made by President William Howard to ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting the US interests there. -
16th Amendment
It allows the Congress to charge an income tax without dividing it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. It was ratified in 1913 -
17th Amendment
It established the popular election of U.S. Senators by the people of the states. The amendment replace Article I, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
Congress developed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the US by introducing the Central Bank to oversee financial policy. The Federal Reserve Act is probably one of the most influential laws concerning the US financial system. -
Tenement
A tenement is a run-down and an overcrowded apartment house, mainly in a poor section of a large city. -
Social Gospel
It was a movement that applied Christian ethics to social problems, mostly issues of social justice like economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labour, inadequate labour unions, poor schools, and the danger of war. -
Labor Strike
Labor Strike is when all workers agree to stop working in a job. It usually happens after contracts have been broken down and a . majority have voted for the strike. It is caused by the mistreatment of the workers. -
18th Amendment
It established the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal. It was ratified on January 16, 1919. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was a social reformer and a women's rights activist who played a serious role in the women's suffrage movement. Anthony traveled in support of women's suffrage, giving as many as 75 to 100 speeches per year and working on many state campaigns. She worked for women's rights, playing a big role in creating the International Council of Women. -
19th Amendment
This amendment granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
It was a scandal of the secrecy of letting out federal oil reserves. It eventually went under investigation, later it was revealed that shortly after the signing of the Teapot Dome lease. That Fall and his family had received from an unknown source more than $200,000 in Liberty bonds. -
Nativism
It is a policy favoring the interests of natives against those of immigrants. The ones who hold this political view, do not accept the label. Nativism is very similar to racism. -
Clarence Darrow
Darrow was a lawyer who was defense in many crucial criminal trials, which earned him a place in American history. He also was a public speaker. -
Jane Addams
She is a progressive social reformer and activist. Jane Addams did many things in her life span to help people and stand up for what she believed in. She was the first woman in America to win the Nobel Peace Prize. -
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair was a writer who wrote nearly 100 books. Sinclair's work was well known and popular and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. -
Labor Unions
Labor Unions aka Trade Unions is an organization of workers who come together to make decisions conditions dealing with their work. Their main goal is to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. -
Political Machines
It is a political group led by a single boss or small group that commands the support of a corporation of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their efforts.
