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Industrialization
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. -
17th Amendment
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. -
19th Amendment
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. -
Political Machines
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. -
Nativism
This policy that favors native inhabitants as opposed to the immigrants. This meant that immigrants were not treated equally as the natives were. -
Robber Barons
A person who becomes rich by using ruthless business practices. -
Bessemer Steel Production
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. -
Tenement
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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The Gilded Age
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. -
Labor Union
an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. -
Labor Strikes
A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander was the first person to invent the telephone which allowed people from across the country to communicate with each other. -
Settlement House
an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community. -
Haymarket Riot
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
Samuel Gompers is an English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. -
Interstate Commerce Act 1887
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. -
Jane Addams
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. -
Ida B. Wells
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. -
Jacob Riis
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. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
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. -
Andrew Carnegie
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. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. -
William Jennings Bryan
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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Klondike Gold Rush
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. -
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. -
Social Gospel
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. -
Populism & Progressivism
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. -
Theodore Roosevelt
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. -
Eugene V. Debs
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. -
Upton Sinclair
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. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
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. -
Muckraker
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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Dollar Diplomacy
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. -
16th Amendment
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. -
Federal Reserve Act
The act to make Federal Reserve Notes legal tender. This Act also created the Federal Reserve System. -
18th Amendment
This amendment prohibited the use or purchase of alcoholic beverages in the United States. You cannot sell alcohol either. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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. -
Clarence Darrow
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.
