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17th amendement
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 shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
Political Machine
A political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses. -
Industrialization
The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. -
Susan B. Anthony
An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. A women fighting to be able to vote and to have rights for all women. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a self-made steel tycoon and one of the wealthiest businessmen of 19th century. -
alexander graham bell
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. -
Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. -
Nativism
Political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. However, this is currently more commonly described as an immigration restriction position. -
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. -
Clarence Darrow
An American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Believed in a strong presidency. -
Jane addams
Jane Addams, known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement. She made settlement houses for those in need. -
William jennings Bryan
An 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. His "Cross of Gold" made him president -
Ida B. Wells
An African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Labor Unions
The largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leaders were Terence V. Powderly and step-brother Joseph Bath. -
Robber Barons
Person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices. -
Labor Strikes
Started on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad cutting wages of workers for the third time in a year. -
Upton sinclair
American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. He wrote a book called the Jungle which then led to federal legislation such as the Pure Food and Drug Act and improvements in working conditions for meat packers and other factory workers. -
Social Gospel
Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ. -
Settlement House
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the US. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness -
Haymarket riot
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police. -
Interstate commerce act
Federal law that was designed to fix the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act needed that railroad rates be reasonable and just but did not gave power to the government to fix specific rates. -
Sherman antitrust act
A United States antitrust law passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, which regulates competition among enterprises. -
Populism and Progressivism
Establishment of the Populist and Progressive movements both were based on the people's dissatisfaction with government and its inability to deal effectively in addressing the problems of the day. -
Klondike gold rush
A rush of thousands of people in the 1890s toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there. -
Tenement
A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city -
Muckraker
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. -
Pure food and drug act
Series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and went to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration -
Dollar diplomacy
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. -
Federal reserve act
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. -
16th amendment
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. -
18th Amendment
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. -
19th amendment
Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. -
Te pot dome scandal
Bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. -
Eugene V. Debbs
American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
