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amassed wealth and power during the period of intense economic and industrial growth following the American Civil War.
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believed they were the true “Native” Americans, despite their being descended from immigrants themselves.
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he 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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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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was an American writer, lecturer and abolitionist who was a leading figure in the women's voting rights movement.
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Machines replaced hand labour as the main means of manufacturing, increasing the production capacity of industry tremendously.
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Machines replaced hand labour as the main means of manufacturing, increasing the production capacity of industry tremendously.
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Led the expansion of the American steel industry and later gave his fortune to education and healthcare
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bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness
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an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
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credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company
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the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates.
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Co-Founder of the Hull house which served as the first social settlement house.
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Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president
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an African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States
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Both were based on the people's dissatisfaction with government and its inability to deal effectively in addressing the problems of the day.
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was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer
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Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
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is a work stoppage, caused by the mass refusal of employees to work
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a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
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became president of the American Railway Union. His union conducted a successful strike for higher wages against the Great Northern Railway
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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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a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada
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a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada
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tenement housing emerged as a way to accommodate a growing population
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Was the 26th president of the United States and the 33rd vice president of the US
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a writing assignment about the plight of workers in the meatpacking industry, eventually resulting in the best-selling novel The Jungle
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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.
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he Social Gospel movement emerged among Protestant Christians to improve the economic, moral and social conditions of the urban working class.
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three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office.
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created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender.
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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.
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allows the federal government to collect an income tax from all Americans
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providing for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years.
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American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt
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it gave women the right to vote in
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the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal.
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a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
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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.
