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andrew carnegie
industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts. (1835-1919)
someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise.
American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. -
Susan B. Anthony
she was the leader of woman suffrage movement, social reformer who campaigned for womens rights. -
The gilded age
The time between the Civil War and World War.
When the U.S. population and economy grew quickly.
There was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misleading.
Many wealthy people lived very fancy lives. -
Haymarket Riot
On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. -
Interstate Commerce Act 1887
United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
Interstate Commerce Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B Wells was an African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
She found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Sherman Antitrust Act was first the federal law passed in 1890 that committed the American government to opposing monopolies. The law prohibits contracts, combinations, or conspiracies “in the restraint of trade or commerce.” -
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. -
Pure Food And Drug Act
The Pure Food And Drug Act prevents the manufacture or transportation of misbranded or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for other purposes. -
Upton Sinclair
A author who wrote a book about the horrors of food productions, it's called The Jungle. -
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.
He was the youngest President in the Nation's history. -
16th Amendment
This states that the Congress has the right to take money out of your paycheck to put in the the U.S. bank account (applying an income tax).
Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified February 3, 1913 -
17th Amendment
Voters elect U.S. Senators. This was by the vote of the people, not by legislature.
Passed by Congress May 13, 1912, and ratified April 8, 1913 -
Eugene V . Debbs
He was a leader of the Socialist and Labor movements.
He organized the Social Democratic party, which turned into the Socialist Party of America.
He ran as the Socialist party's candidate for 5 elections, but never won. 1900-1920 -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. 1925 Trial: John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man. The trial was the first to be broadcasted on live radio. Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow, -
Jane Addams
Jane Adams was known as the "mother" of social work.
A pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
she combined here work for Hull House with a comparably passionate contribution to the peace movement during the First World War.
