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The captains of industry who monopolized the railroads, the steel industry, the tobacco industry, the oil industry and the financiers who controlled the banks and used unfair business practices.
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Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production.
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It is characterized by opposition to immigration based on fears that the immigrants will distort or spoil existing cultural values.
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This process made the production of steel more economical.
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The primary purpose of political machines was to gain power in government and keep it. This usually happened through an elaborate system of patronage and community rewards as a way to win votes.
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A leading voice in the social reform movement, (murder by hanging) was one main tactics used to terrorize African Americans, especially in the south.
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Entrepreneurs were also able to reap huge profits for themselves, creating immense wealth. Because of their lavish lifestyles, the period from 1865- 1900 became known as the gilded age.
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Hoped to create a single national union by joining together all skilled and unskilled workers.
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Protestant ministers in the social gospel movement called for social reforms including the abolition of child labor and safer working conditions.
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A prominent reformer, attempted to vote in Rochester, New York, on the grounds that she was citizen and had that right under the 14th amendment.
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Striking workers would not allow any of the trains, mainly freight trains, to roll until this third wage cut was revoked.
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Upton Sinclair published a book name "the jungle" which led to federal legislation such as the Pure Food and Drug Act and improvements in working conditions for meat packers and other factory workers.
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The purpose was to assimilate and ease the transition of immigrants into the labor force by teaching them middle-class American values.
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Populists were mainly aggrieved farmers who advocated radical reforms, the Progressives were middle-class reformers who wanted to increase the role of government in reform while maintaining a capitalist economy.
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Was founded by Samuel Gompers. Gompers hoped to creat a powerful union by uniting workers with similar economic interests.
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Alexander Graham Bell is best known for his invention of the telephone.
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Gompers hoped to create a powerful union by uniting workers with similar economic interests.
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A labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day
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The court ruled that only congress had the power to regulate interstate commerce. In response, congress passed the interstate commerce act.
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Helped organize and increase production, bought iron ore fielus, coal mines and ships to have complete control over the production of steel.
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Co-founder of the Hull House, which served as the first social settlement house in America.
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His book How the Other Half Lives, shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions in New York City.
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The purpose was to stop monopolies engaging in unfair practices that prevented fair competition.
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For a $10 fee an individual could register for land available to settle . (160 acres)
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In 1893 Eugene V. Debs became president of the American Railway Union. His union conducted a successful strike for higher wages against the Great Northern Railway in 1894.
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Boycott. Many of the Pullman factory workers joined the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott in which ARU members refused to run trains containing Pullman cars.
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His "Cross of gold" speech praised farmers and denounced bankers for "crucifying mankind on a cross of gold."
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A rush of thousands of people in the 1890s toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there.
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As cities grew, whole families crowded into tenements- single room apartments often without heat or lighting.
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The purpose of these reforms was to end corruption and to make state government more directly accountable to the people.
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An American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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The goal was to promote worker solidarity in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the employing class.
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These writers became known as "muckrakers" because they raked up the "muck" or dirt of American life.
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Regulated the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines.
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President Taft encouraged bankers to invest in the countries of the Caribbean region. His use of American investment to promote American foreign policy goals became known as "dollar diplomacy".
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The act reformed the banking industry by establishing 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks to serve as "bankers banks."
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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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Banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States.
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Gives women the right to vote in 1920.
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Uncovered just after hardings death in 1923, was one of the worst scandals in U.S. history.
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A farm attorney who defended scopes. Clarence was considered to be the greatest orator, and the scopes trial became the first in American history to be broadcast over national radio.
