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Robber Barons ( Captains Of Industry )
These include people such as J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W. Mellon, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller. The term was coined by Thomas Carlyle in his 1843 book, Past and Present. -
Jacob Riis
American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives (1890), shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions . -
Social gospel
Goals of Urban Reform Movements. Many Americans were desperately poor around the turn of the 20th century. The Social Gospel movement emerged among Protestant Christians to improve the economic, moral and social conditions of the urban working class. -
Labor union
An organization of workers formed to promote collective bargaining with employers over wages, hours, fringe benefits, job security, and working conditions. -
Ida B Wells
known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States. She went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan became a Nebraska congressman. He starred at the Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley. -
Eugene V. Debbs
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 an industrial union -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative, referendum, and recall are three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. Proponents of an initiative, referendum, or recall effort must apply for an official petition serial number from the Town Clerk. -
Muckraker
Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt borrowed the term from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, in which a rake was used to dig up filth and muck. The term caught on, and many journalists were proud to be considered muckrakers. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was leader of the American steel industry he donated large sums of his fortune to educational, cultural, and scientific institutions. -
Tenement
a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city. Law. any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another. -
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's infamousbook exposing the horrific conditions of the meatpacking industry, brought to light what was actually happening when the government didn't step into businesses. -
Pure food and drug act
The Pure Food and Drug Act wasn't until the public outcry following the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle that Congress moved on legislation that would prevent “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs or medicines, and liquors.” -
17th amendments
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. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. -
16th Amendments
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 Census. -
Federal reserve act
The Federal Reserve System, often referred to as the Federal Reserve or simply "the Fed," is the central bank of the United States. It was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
18th Amendments
The 18th Amendment did not prohibit the consumption of alcohol, but rather simply the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
19th amendments
The 19th amendment is a very important amendment to the constitution as it gave women the right to vote. -
Tea pot dome scandal
Albert B. Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet, is found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office. Fall was the first individual to be convicted of a crime committed while a presidential cabinet member. -
Labor strikes
Known as the "Great Steel Strike of 1919," it eventually involved more than 350,000 workers. The American Federation of Labor organized the strike, and workers demanded higher wages, an eight-hour workday, and recognition of unions.
