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Labor Strikes
Takes place in response to employee grievances. -
Political Machines
Commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
Robber Barons
Lots of wealth and power during the period of intense economic and industrial growth following the American Civil War. -
Andrew Carnegie
American industrialist who made huge mounts of money in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. -
Tenement
Overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city. -
The Gilded Age
Development of the American society -
Bessemer Steel Production
First inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel -
Industrialization
Machines replaced hand labour as the main means of manufacturing, increasing the production capacity of industry tremendously. -
Susan B. Anthony
Fought for women's rights. -
Alexander Graham Bell
He is best remembered as the inventor of the telephone. -
Labor Unions
Represent employees in a variety of industries. -
Settlement House
Reform institutions -
Haymarket Riot
A labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police -
Samuel Gompers
Founded the American Federation of Labor. -
Interstate Commerce Act 1887
Making the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation -
Jane Addams
Jane was an advocate of immigrants, the poor, women, and peace. An author of numerous articles and books, she made the first settlement house in the United States. Her most popular book was Twenty Years at Hull House, was about the time she spent at the settlement house. -
Jacob Riis
With his book How the Other Half Lives, shocked his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions in New York City. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Outlawed monopolistic business practices -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene a Socialist, presidential candidate, war opponent. Born of French immigrant parents in Terre Haute, Indiana, Debs became active in the labor movement in the 1870s and created the American Railway Union, in 1893. -
William Jennings Bryan
His Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Discovery of gold in the Yukon people heard and went to the Klondike region and this led to form Dawson city. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt a Republican politician unknowingly became the 26th president of the United States in September 1901, Young and physically robust, he brought a new energy to the White House -
Social Gospel
Religious movement argument that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the gross working conditions in the meat packing industry. It led to new federal food safety laws. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prevents the sale of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors. -
Dollar Diplomacy
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 federal government to levy an income tax from all Americans. -
Federal Reserve Act
Created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal. -
17th Amendment
Senators were elected by state legislatures -
Muckraker
Created public awareness of corruption, social injustices and abuses of power. -
18th Amendment
Prohibit simply the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
Nativisim
Protecting the interests of native-born or established US residents against those of immigrants -
19th amendment
Gave women the right to vote -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
One of the worst scandals in U.S. history. -
Clarence Darrow
He had his clients plead guilty in order to avoid a vengeance-minded jury and place the case before a judge. -
Populism & Progressivism
Populism a movement that was led by the farmers for the economic change
Progressivism movement of urban middle class against the political system -
Ida B. Wells
journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States
