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Labor Union
the rapid expansion of industrial society then taking place, drew women, children, rural workers and immigrants into the work force in large numbers and in new roles. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. -
Bessemer steel production
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel -
Andrew Carnegie
He was an American industrialist who who owned tycoon in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. -
Robber Barons
derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who were accused of using unscrupulous methods to get rich, or expand their wealth, for example Cornelius Vanderbilt taking money from government-subsidized shippers, in order to not compete on their routes. -
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Industrialization
As industrial workers' incomes rise, markets for consumer goods and services of all kinds tend to expand and provide a further stimulus to industrial investment and economic growth. -
Tenement
A tenement is a multi-occupancy building of any sort. However, in the United States, it has come to refer most specifically to a run-down apartment building or to a slum. -
Jacob Riis
He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. -
Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. -
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Labor Strikes
Great Railroad Strike: wages were cut for the third time in a year.
Homestead Strike: industrial lockout and strike culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents
Pullman strike: a nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law. It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company. -
Settlement House
is a neighborhood-based organization that provides services and activities designed to identify and reinforce the strengths of individuals, families and communities. -
Political Machines
a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses who receive rewards for their efforts. -
Alexander Graham Bell
innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) -
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Samuel Gompers
Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president -
Haymarket Riot
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams, known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. -
Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States. -
Muckraker
The term was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
A United States antitrust law passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, which regulates competition among enterprises. -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism: support for the concerns of ordinary people.
Progressivism: the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform. -
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Initiative, Referebdum, Recall
three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
Eugene V. Debbs
American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States -
William Jennings Bryan
American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896, and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th president. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt -
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. -
16th amendments
allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states. -
Federal Reserve Act
an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender. -
Social Gospel
A movement in North American Protestantism that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labour, inadequate labour unions, poor schools, and the danger of war. -
17th Amendments
established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
18th Amendment
established the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal. -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
Nativism
the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
19th Amendments
The 19th Amendment (1920) to the Constitution of the United States provides men and women with equal voting rights. -
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, and two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Upton Sinclair
was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction