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Political Machines
A political group where a authoritative boss or small group commands around support of corps of supporters and businesses. When watching the supporters, the supporters receive rewards for their work. -
Tenement
A room or set of rooms forming a residence within a house or block of apartments. Tenements was where many immigrants lived when they moved to America. -
Susan B. Anthony
An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a big role in the women's suffrage movement. She also was anti-slavery by the age of 17 and collected many petitions. -
Robber Barons (Captains of Industry)
A tern used for one of the powerful industrialists in the 19th century. They monopolized on huge industries to become wealthy. -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Bessemer steel production
It the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. A process for the producing steel by blowing air through molten pig iron at about 1250 degrees Celsius . -
The Gilded Age
This age was an age of rapid economic growth. The wages in America were higher than those in Europe and this brought many immigrants over to America. -
Social Gospel
A Christian faith practiced but is not just to personal conversion, but to social reform. This was a big thing in the Social-Reform movement. -
Industrialization
The development on industries in countries on a wide scale. This is a period of social and economical change. -
Labor Strikes
Labor strikes are when workers leave work to have changes made for their safety and pay. Some well known strikes are The steel strike of 1919, The coal strike in 1902 and the Railroad strike in 1877. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew was an American Industrialist who had a large fortune in steel production due to a major philanthropist. When a small boy he worked in a cotton factory before getting a division superintendent at the Pittsburgh rail road in 1859. -
Settlement House
An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community. The most well know one is Hull House. -
Labor Unions
Groups of people who fight for the safety of them-self and other workers from the harm that can come from the factory work. These people will do things like strikes to get people to listen to what needs to be fixed. -
Alexander Graham Bell
He is know for the invention of the telephone. He also founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885. -
Haymarket riot
This at first was a protest but quickly escalated when someone threw a bomb at the police officers there. In result to the violence, 8 people had died that day. Even though there wasn't/isn't evidence, 8 labor union activists were convicted of the bombing. -
Samuel Gompers
An American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924. -
Interstate Commerce Act 1887
This act was created to regulate the railroad industry. In this act made railroad rates to be "reasonable and just" but not empowering to the government to fix specific rates. -
Ida B Wells
An African American Journalist, civil rights activist, and feminist. She was often found in and became a part of groups striving for African American justice. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a Nebraska congressman in 1890. In 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president -
Populism and Progressivism
Populism: people supporting each other, the role of "the people".
Progressivism: A societal reform. -
Jacob Riis
He was a Danish-American social reformist and was a Muckraker. He used photography to expose how it is in the slum in the book "How the other half lives". -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This was the first act created to outlaw monopolistic businesses. This was the first measure passed by the U.S. to prohibit trusts. -
Eugene V. Debbs
An American Socialist, political activist, trade unionist, and was one of the founding members of the IWW. He also was the president of the American Railway Union. -
Clarence Darrow
An American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He defended Eugene V. Debs, arrested on a federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike in 1894. -
Klondike Gold Rush
This gold rush, when heard of, brought up to an estimated 100,000 people to search for gold. This was in Yukon, Canada and was discovered by George Carmack and Skookum Jim. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
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. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was the 26th president of the US in 1901 and was so until 1909. This was an unexpected thing to happen because the president before him was assassinated. -
Muckraker
People who exposed the corruption in things. Some muckrakers were Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair and many more. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act was created to prevent the manufacturing and transporting of poisonous, misbranded or deleterious foods and drugs. This also controlled medicines, and liquors, as well as regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Dollar Diplomacy
The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. During President William Howard Taft's term— 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. -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment was created so they people can also vote for who is are the U.S. Senators. Each state has two Senators for six years at a time. -
16th Amendment
This new amendment was written during the probation, the Government needed to get taxes from something so instead of alcohol, they went to the income of the citizens. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act was created to help provide a safer, more stable monetary and finance system. This was to help with economic stability. -
18th Amendment
This amendment made alcohol illegal due to how many people were drunk most of the time and how much the people drank. This also was created because many people demanded it because of the newest Great Awakening. -
19th Amendment
This amendment was created so that persons right to vote can be denied based on their gender. This was a part of the Womens Suffrage movement. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. This was also called Oil Reserves Scandal or Elk Hills Scandal. There was the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. -
Jane Addams
Jane is the co-founder of the Hull House, one of the settlement houses in Chicago. Because of this, she is also the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. -
Upton Sinclair
Wrote nearly 100 books and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. Most of his works were known and popular in the 20th century.
