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She fought for women’s rights and illegally voted in the presidential election and she also fought against slavery and alcohol
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A well organized group that controls how the election goes by bribing people with jobs and other favors in exchange for their vote
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the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
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a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices
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He invented the Telephone
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His most famous work, How the Other Half Lives shed light on the plight of the slums in New York City
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He founded the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions as a coalition of like-minded unions
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He became active in Labor Movement in the 1870s and he created the American Railway Union
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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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Represented Scopes at the “Monkey Trial” on evolution in 1925
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Poorly built, overcrowded houses where immigrants lived
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African American leader who worked to end lynching
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Knights of labor- 1869- Secret organization formed to secure the rights of working men
American Federation of labor- 1886- loose amalgamation of skilled craft unions
Industrial Workers of the World- 1905- Organization that organized unskilled laborers in order to challenge and overthrow the capitalist system -
Workers for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad went on strike, because the company had reduced workers' wages twice over the previous year
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His novel The Jungle helped improve working conditions in the meat-packing industry.
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A center in an underprivileged area that provides community services, workers lived in the areas where they helped
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a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
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regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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rapid industrialization, a labor pool swelled by immigration, and minimal government regulation allowed the upper classes to accumulate great wealth and enjoy opulent lifestyles.
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Populism wanted to improve the economic system while progressivism was focused on bringing in political improvements
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prohibit trusts and monopolies; was used to halt RR strike which threatened to restrain the nation's mail delivery
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He was important to this era because he started his company Carnegie steel Corporation in 1892. He is known as "the king of steel". He would treat his worker poorly but later in his life he giving away $350 million to build libraries.
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The strike happened because the management of the plant, led by Henry Frick, wanted to break the union at the plant so that they could reduce wages more easily.
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When the Pullman railroad car company laid off workers and slashed their wages, the American Railway Union led a national strike that shut down the country's railroad system.
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He stared at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver
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Thousands of people rushed toward the klondike gold mining district in northwestern canada after gold was discovered there
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Jane Addams important because she was one of the leaders in the settlement house movement.
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Journalist who exposed corruption and other problems
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Passed laws to protect consumer health he was know as trust buster and he was the 26 president
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a law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade.
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Movement led by a group of liberal protestant progressives in response to the social problems increased by the gilded age
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certain number of voters may, by petition, propose a law and have it submitted to the voters
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final approval to a popular vote by the electorate
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Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term
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the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
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The congress has power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source
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The people have the power to elect State Senators
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act that created the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the united states, which was signed into law by woodrow wilson. it regulated banking to help smaller banks stay in business.
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Liquor Abolished
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Women’s Suffrage, women gain the right to vote
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A policy of favoring US born people over people who were born in a different country.
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The secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior
