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Industrialization or industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.
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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.
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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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Political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses who receive rewards for their efforts. These people would have supporters vote for them in return for a reward.
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This policy that favors native inhabitants as opposed to the immigrants. This meant that immigrants were not treated equally as the natives were.
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A person who becomes rich by using ruthless business practices.
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The Bessemer process was the 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 tenement is a multi-occupancy building of any sort. However, in the United States, it has come to refer most specifically to a run-down apartment building or to a slum.
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This was a time between the Civil War and World War I where the economy started to boom in Early America. There was lots of political corruption within the country at this time.
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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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A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances.
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Alexander was the first person to invent the telephone which allowed people from across the country to communicate with each other.
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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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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. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing.
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Samuel Gompers is an English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
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It was a federal law designed to regulate the railroad industry. And to stop it's monopolistic practices. The Act required the railroads to have reasonable prices for everyone but it does not empower the government to fix specific rates.
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Jane Addams was a social worker who helped immigrants, the poor, and women. She co-founded the Hull House which served as the first social settlement house in America.
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She was an African American abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She was fighting for equal rights and fighting against segregation.
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Jacob Riis was a photographer, social reformer, and American newspaper reporter who took pictures of that working conditions in the factory industry. His book "How The Other Half Lives" talks about the bad things in the factory industry.
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The first federal act to outlaw 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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After the Civil War, Carnegie invested in ironworks and built a steel mill in Pittsburg which he used to sell iron and steel companies for tracks. Eventually he gave some of his money away to help build libraries and endow universities.
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She was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
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He became a Nebraska congressman 1896. He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley.
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The Klondike Gold Rush 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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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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Many Americans were desperately poor around the turn of the 20th century. The Social Gospel movement emerged among Protestant Christians to improve the economic, moral and social conditions of the urban working class.
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Populism, initiated back in late 19th century was a movement that was led by the farmers for the economic change, whereas Progressivism, commenced in the beginning of 20th century was the movement of urban middle class against the political system.
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Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when William McKinley was assassinated. He brought new energy to the White House and won his 2nd term on his own merits in 1904.
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Eugene V Debs was one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the world. He was five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for president of the United States.
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Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the working conditions of the meat-packing industry. He described that it had diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat that shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.
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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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This word 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.
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the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
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The 16th amendment is an important amendment that allows the federal government to collect an income tax from all Americans. The tax allowed the government to have an army, build roads and bridges, enforce laws, and other important things.
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The act to make Federal Reserve Notes legal tender. This Act also created the Federal Reserve System.
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This amendment prohibited the use or purchase of alcoholic beverages in the United States. You cannot sell alcohol either.
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Bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, and two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding.
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One of his most famous cases occurred in 1925 when he was defending John T. Scopes whom was a public high school teacher who was accused of teaching evolutionary theory in the violation of the Tennessee law.
