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Industrialization
The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. -
Settlement House
The goal was to bring the society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness. Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors. The "settlement houses" provided services such as daycare, education, and healthcare to improve the lives of the poor in these areas -
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the telephone -
Samuel Gompers
Founded the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions as a coalition of like-minded unions. -
Susan B. Anthony
Women's rights activist. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of women's rights. In 1852, they founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was female -
Bessemer Steel Production
First inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. -
Robber Baron
When people used ruthless tactics to destroy competition. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie helped the take off in the steel industry, and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became one of the best philanthropists in the U.S and Britain. -
Tenement
Poorly built, overcrowded houses where immigrants lived. -
Labor Unions
Knights of Labor- Secret organization formed to secure the rights of working men.
American Federation of Labor- loose amalgamation of skilled craft unions.
Industrial workers of the world- organization that organized unskilled laborers in order to challenge and overthrow the capitalist system. -
Jacob Riis
Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. He is considered one of the fathers of photography due to his very early adoption of flash in photography. -
Labor Strikes
Great railroad strike- workers from the baltimore & ohio railroad went on strike because they got reduced wages twice in one year.
Homestead strike- happened because management of the plant , Henry Frick, wanted to break the union.
Pullman Strike- When they laid off pullman workers and lowered their wages, started a national strike that shut down the railroads. -
Ida B. Wells
Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War, she lost both her parents and a sibling in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic, when she was 16 years old. She went to work and kept the rest of the family intact with the help of her grandmother. She moved with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee, where she found better pay as a teacher. Soon she co-owned a newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight. -
The gilded age
rapid industrialization, a labor pool swelled by immigration, and minimal government regulation allowed the upper classes to accumulate great wealth and enjoy lavish lifestyles. -
Eugene V. Debs
An American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and a five time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for the President of the United States. -
Haymarket Riot
A labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police -
Interstate Commerce Act
To regulate the railroad industry in its monopoly practices. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Prohibit trusts and monopolies; was used to halt PP strike which threatened to restrain the nation's mail delivery -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He defended high-profile clients in many famous trials of the early 20th century, including teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks (1924) -
William Jennings Bryan
American orator and politician from Nebraska. 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. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. -
Klondike Gold Rush
Thousands of people rushed toward the klondike gold mining district in northwestern canada after gold was discovered there. -
Muckracker
The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines. In the US, the modern term is investigative journalism — it has different and more pejorative connotations in British English — and investigative journalists in the US today are often informally called 'muckrakers'. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He led the Rough Riders in the Spanish- American war, then elected the Governor of New York in 1898, then was later the 25th Vice President of the Unites States from March to September 1901. He was later elected as The President of the United States in 1904, then reelected in 1905 to keep his status as the President. His face is on Mount Rushmore, along side George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
A law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade. -
Social Gospel
Movement led by a group of liberal protestant progressives in response to the social problems increased by the gilded age. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative- 1908- certain number of voters may, by petition, propose a law and have it submitted to the voters
Referendum- 1908- final approval to a popular vote by the electorate
Recall- 1908- procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term -
Dollar Diplomacy
the use of the countries financial power to extend its international influence. -
16th Amendment
allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. This amendment exempted income taxes from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes, after income taxes on rents, dividends, and interest were ruled to be direct taxes in the court case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895). -
Federal Reserve Act
act the created the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the United States, which was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson. It regulated banking to help smaller banks stay in business -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American Author that wrote over 100 books. The Jungle, that exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public mess that contributed to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a book to expose American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. -
18th Amendment
effectively established the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
19th Amendment
Women's suffrage, right to vote -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was known as the 'mother' of social work, and was involved in many things. She was known as an American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, sociologist, public philosopher, protestor, author, and a leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She was one of the most prominent social reformers of the progressive era. -
Political Machines
A political machine is a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. The machine's power is based on the ability of the workers to get out the vote for their candidates on election day. -
Nativism
The political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.[1] However, this is currently more commonly described as an immigration restriction position.
