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Nativists believed they were the true “Native” Americans, despite their being descended from immigrants themselves.
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Is a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses.
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time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings
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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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Is a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who were accused of using unscrupulous methods to get rich
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A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
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Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist. Andrew was one of the first "captains of industry." Leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 1901,
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United States writer whose novels argued for social reform.
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The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the US.
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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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Was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.
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Was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886,
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Founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president
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Federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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Jane Adams was thought to be the best known philanthropist of the Gilded Age. In 1889 she and Ellen Gates Star made a secular settlement house in Chicago know as Hull-House
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Was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.
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Passed by Congress in 1890, that prohibits monopolies or unreasonable combinations of companies to restrict or in any way control interstate commerce.
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Populism aimed to reform the economic system, while Progressivism was focused on bringing the political reforms.
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William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party .
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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.
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Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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Meaning "one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," popularized 1906 in speech by President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Prevents 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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Was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century
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Was 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.
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Was an 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.
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Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender.
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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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Effectively established the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal.
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Usually takes place in response to employee grievances.
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It gave women the right to vote in 1920.
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A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921
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Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.
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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.
