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the theory or doctrine that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired or learned.
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Nativists believed they were the true “Native” Americans, despite their being descended from immigrants themselves. In response to the waves of immigration in the mid-nineteenth century, Nativists created political parties and tried to limit the rights of immigrants.
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was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron.
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as an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West.
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Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association
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a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century).
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a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century).
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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.
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Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform.
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. The Gilded Age was a period of economic growth as the United States jumped to the lead in industrialization ahead of Britain. The nation was rapidly expanding its economy into new areas, especially heavy industry like factories, railroads, and coal mining.
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Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and the refinement of the phonograph
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s 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.
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an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
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an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
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a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
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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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is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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Jane was Co founder of the Hull House which served as the first social settlement house in America.
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Political machine, in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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He bought other steel mills and founded the Carnegie steel corporation.
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an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States.
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His union conducted a successful strike for higher wages against the Great Northern Railway.
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was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899.
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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.
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reporters, authors, and critics who sought to expose the evils and injustices of Gilded Age society, hoping to expose such social ills before they strangled democracy.
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a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
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Passed laws to protect consumer health
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In his novel the jungle he described the unsanity practices of the meat packing industry.
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An Act— For 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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the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
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progressive and reactionary. ... Since then, many of us have argued in these pages that distressed voters who are seduced by the right on social issues must be mobilized by progressives on economic ones.
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progressive and reactionary. ... Since then, many of us have argued in these pages that distressed voters who are seduced by the right on social issues must be mobilized by progressives on economic ones.
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Samuel Gompers is an English-born 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
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The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
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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 sh
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is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender. The Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.
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He also negotiated the Bryan–Chamorro Treaty in 1914 ratified by the Senate in 1916 which permitted the United States the latitude to construct an isthmian canal across Nicaragua and secured rights to build naval bases at the Gulf of Fonseca and on the Corn Islands.
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effectively established the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors
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Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
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The "Teapot Dome Scandal" was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921–1923.
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Darrow defended John T. Scopes in the State of Tennessee vs Scopes trial. It has often been called the Scopes Monkey Trial and was popularized by author and journalist H.L. Mencken.
