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political machine history
political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses -
nativism
Favoring the native inhabitants opposed to immifrants -
populism progressivism
was a movement that was led by the farmers for the economic change -
social gospel
was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization -
Susan B. Anthony
was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement -
Andrew Carnegie
led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century -
Alexander Graham Bell
created the first telephone -
Jacob riis
with his book How the Other Half Lives, shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions -
Samuel Gompers
founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president -
Eugene V. Debbs
one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, -
bessemer steel production
was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace -
Clarence Darrow
a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union -
Theodore Roosevelt
He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States -
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. -
Jane Addams
leader in women's suffrage and world peace -
Ida B. Wells
She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
labor unions
fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions -
robber barons
a derogatory term used for some powerful nineteenth-century American businessmen -
the gilded age
Its beginning in the years after the American Civil War overlaps the Reconstruction Era -
industrialization
The growth started in the late 1800's and continued on though the civil war. By the end of the war the U.S industry was small -
Upton Sinclair
He gained public notoriety in 1906 with his novel The Jungle, which exposed the deplorable conditions of the U.S. meat-packing industry. -
Haymarket riot
rally at Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works. -
Interstate commerce act
is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices -
tenement
a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city -
Sherman Antitrust act
was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
settlement house
Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness -
Klondike gold rush
Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie and George Washington Carmack found some gold in a mountain in canada, so others went to get some of the gold -
initiative referendum recall
it allows people to vote off any elected official from office -
Muckraker
was used in the Progressive Era to 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. -
dollar diplomacy
was 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. -
17th amendment
The amendment supersedes Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures. -
16th Amendment
allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census -
Federal Reserve act
is an 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 Amendment
effectively established the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal. -
19th amendment
prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex -
labor strikes
they're wages were cut by $00.07 so they protested -
Teapot dome scandal
was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
