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17th Amendment
The 17th Amendment states that the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote -
Political Machines
A political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses -
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Susan B. Anthony
An American women's rights activist, devoted her life to racial, gender, and educational equality. One of the most famous women in American history, she played a prominent role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Nativisim
The theory or doctrine that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired or learned. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. Leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 1901, he disposed most of his great fortune by endowing educational, cultural, scientific, and technological institutions. -
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Alexander Graham Bell
A Scottish born inventor who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. -
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Jacob Riis
An American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives, shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions -
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Samuel Gompers
Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president -
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Eugene V. Debbs
He entered politics as a Democratic City Clerk in 1879, and in 1885 he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with broad support from Terre Haute’s workers and businessmen. Debs organized the American Railway Union. -
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 -
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Clarence Darrow
A leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgia economic reform -
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Theodore Roosevelt
A progressive reformer, earned a reputation as a "trust buster" through his regulatory reforms and anti-trust prosecutions. ... His "Square Deal" included regulation of railroad rates and pure foods and drugs; he saw it as a fair deal for both the average citizen and the businessmen -
Tenement
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 -
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William Jennings Bryan
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. -
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Jane Addams
Jane Addams founded the first settlement house in the United States and was also an amazing businesswoman, excellent fundraiser and expert publicity agent. -
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Ida B. Wells
An African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890's. -
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Industrilzation
The industrial growth that began in the United States in the early 1800s continued steadily up to and through the Americas -
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The Glided Age
An era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As American wages were much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants -
Labor Strike
Is a work stoppage, caused by the mass refusal of employees to work -
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Upton Sinclair
His involvement with socialism led to a writing assignment about the plight of workers in the meatpacking industry, eventually resulting in the best-selling novel The Jungle -
Labor Unions
An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. -
Haymarket Riot
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 1887
A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism is the support for the concerns of ordinary people. Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This act outlawed monopolistic business practices -
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Klondike Gold Rush
It was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada -
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 -
Muckrakers
One who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders. -
Social Gospel
Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform -
Robber Barons
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices -
The Pure Food and Drug Act
For preventing 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 -
Dollar Diplomacy
The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
16th Amendment
The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Censu -
The Federal Reserve Act
An Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender -
Settlement House
An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community. -
18th Amendment
Effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
A bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
