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Labor strikes
A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work -
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Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced like a call. -
Robber Barons
Business men accused of using unfair methods to get rich -
Alexander Graham Bell
An inventor and engineer he invented the first telephone. -
Samuel Gompers
An early labor leader and president of the American federation of labor -
Bessemer Steel Production
The first cheap industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron. -
Clarence Darrow
fought to preserve individual choice. -
Political Machines
An organization of a single group that controls the city or state by maintaining votes -
Nativism
The belief the certain skills or abilities are native. -
Settlement Houses
Where poor settlement workers would live -
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The Gilded Age
The U.S. population and economy grew quickly but there was a lot of political corruption. -
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Industrialization
The nation began to expand it's economy and make factories, railroads and coal mining. -
Susan B. Anthony
She helped pave the way for women to vote -
Haymarket Riot
A Labor protest that turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at the police. it was viewed as a set back for the Labor Movement. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Regulated the railroad industry or an act to regulate commerce -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was the inventor of social work -
Ida B. Anthony
Led an anti lynching crusade -
Jacob Riss
Was a muckraking journalist who came up with a way to solve overcrowding and crime -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Outlaws unnecessary combinations of companies that try to control goods. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was a labor leader who helped organize
Pullman Strike. -
William Jennings Bryan
Spoke The Cross of Gold speech -
Klondike Gold Rush
The migration of 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region. -
Initiative Referendum Recall
Initiative - Allows citizens to propose a statute. Referendum - A centered vote decided by many. Recall - Remove an elected official through direct vote. -
Populism & Progressivism
Populism- a movement led by economic change
Progressivism- the movement of urban middle class against the political system -
Tenement
Urban dwellings occupied by poor family. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He launched the Square Deal -
Labor Unions
Knights of Labor
The first Union
American Federation of Labor
organize skilled workers into national unions
Industrial Workers of the World
promote worker solidarity -
Upton Sinclair
Passed the Pure Food and Drug Act -
Muckraker
The term for journalists who attacked institutions and leaders they thought were corrupt. -
Pure Food & Drug Act
Prevents the manufacture of misbranded or poisonous food and drugs. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Using the countries financial power to promote American business -
17th Amendment
Provides the election of two U.S. from each state by popular vote -
16th Amendments
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
Federal Reserve Act
Provided the country with a more safe and stable monetary financial system. -
Andrew Carnegie
He ran the expansion the American Steel Industry -
18th Amendments
The prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
19th Amendment
Allows both genders to vote -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Albert B Fall secretly gave exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome to Harry Sinclair from the Mammoth Oil Company.
