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Navitism
Nativists believed they were the true “Native” Americans, despite their being descended from immigrants themselves. -
Political Machines
Is a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. -
The Gilded Age
time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings -
Bessemer Steel Production
The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. -
Robber Barons
Is a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who were accused of using unscrupulous methods to get rich -
Industrialization Tenement
A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city. -
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist. Andrew was one of the first "captains of industry." Leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 1901, -
Upton Sinclair
United States writer whose novels argued for social reform. -
Settlement House
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the US. -
Labor Unions
An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. -
Haymarket Riot
Was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, -
Samuel Gompers
Founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president -
Interstate Commerce Act 1887
Federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Jane Addams
Jane Adams was thought to be the best known philanthropist of the Gilded Age. In 1889 she and Ellen Gates Star made a secular settlement house in Chicago know as Hull-House -
Susan B. Wells
Was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Jacob Riis
Was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Passed by Congress in 1890, that prohibits monopolies or unreasonable combinations of companies to restrict or in any way control interstate commerce. -
Populism & Progressivism
Populism aimed to reform the economic system, while Progressivism was focused on bringing the political reforms. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party . -
Klondike Gold Rush
a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. -
Initiative,Referendum,Recall
Are three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
Muckraker
Meaning "one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," popularized 1906 in speech by President Theodore Roosevelt. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prevents 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. -
Socia Gospel
Was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century -
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. -
Eugene V Debbs
Was an 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. -
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. -
17th Amendment
Providing for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years. -
18th Amendments
Effectively established the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal. -
Labor Strikes
Usually takes place in response to employee grievances. -
19th Amendment
It gave women the right to vote in 1920. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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.
