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political machines
government was ran by corrupt political machines -
Samuel Gompers
English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. -
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
he defended a 14 year old kid that was murdered by Leopold and Loeb -
Ida B. Wells
Was an African American journalist abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s -
nativism
newcomers or immigrants -
The Gilded age
the term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's -
Social Gospel
response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. -
Robber Barins
businessmen that used unscrupulous methods to get rich -
Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. -
Settlement House
began in England and came to the U.S and founded a university in New York -
Haymarket Riot
turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day -
Interstate Commerce Act
A U.S federal law that was created for the railroads industry particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Jane addams
jane founded the world famous social settlement of Hull House -
williams Jennings Bryan
Williams became a congressmen -
populism & progressivism
eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government -
Jacobe Riis
crusaded for the establishment of settlement houses, public parks and playgrounds, and other reforms to improve the lives of those in New York City's slums. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit monopolies. -
Industrialization
the development of industries in a wide space -
Andrew Carnegie
After the Civil War he invested in ironworks and built a steel mill in Pittsburgh selling iron to the rail rode companies. -
Eugene V. Debbs
He helped organize the railroad and became president of the railroad and was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America. -
Klondike Gold age
a lit of immigrants moved to the Klondike river because they found gold -
Theodore Roosevelt
he was the 26 president of the USA he was also the leader of the republican party and late part of the progressive movement. he was the fist president to become popular to use media to connect with the Americans. -
Tenement
United States, it has come to refer most specifically to a run-down apartment building or to a slum. -
Upton Sinclair
Anthracite StrikeCongress passes Newlands Act,Congress passes Elkins Act, Muller v. Oregon caseTaft is elected president -
Susan B. Anthony
she is in the 1$ coin she was going to when the U.S made that coin in 1979 -
Pure Food and Drug Act
protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support -
Muckraker
reporters, authors, and critics who wrote about the bad people and about the illnesses -
Dollar Deplomacy
use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender. The Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson -
17 Amendment
United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
16 Amendment
explicitly permitted Congress to levy a graduated income tax, which means that wealthy people pay higher percentage of their income in taxes than poor people. -
18 Amendment
prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production -
19 Amendment
Gave the women the right to vote -
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. The leases were the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh.
