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The 17th Amendment states that 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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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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An American women's rights activist, devoted her life to racial, gender, and educational equality. One of the most famous women in American history, she played a prominent role in the women's suffrage movement.
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The theory or doctrine that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired or learned.
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Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. Leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 1901, he disposed most of his great fortune by endowing educational, cultural, scientific, and technological institutions.
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A Scottish born inventor who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.
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An American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives, shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions
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Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president
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He entered politics as a Democratic City Clerk in 1879, and in 1885 he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with broad support from Terre Haute’s workers and businessmen. Debs organized the American Railway Union.
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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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A leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgia economic reform
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A progressive reformer, earned a reputation as a "trust buster" through his regulatory reforms and anti-trust prosecutions. ... His "Square Deal" included regulation of railroad rates and pure foods and drugs; he saw it as a fair deal for both the average citizen and the businessmen
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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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Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States.
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Jane Addams founded the first settlement house in the United States and was also an amazing businesswoman, excellent fundraiser and expert publicity agent.
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An African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890's.
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The industrial growth that began in the United States in the early 1800s continued steadily up to and through the Americas
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An era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As American wages were much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants
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Is a work stoppage, caused by the mass refusal of employees to work
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His involvement with socialism led to a writing assignment about the plight of workers in the meatpacking industry, eventually resulting in the best-selling novel The Jungle
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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 riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day.
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A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices
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Populism is the support for the concerns of ordinary people. Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform
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This act outlawed monopolistic business practices
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It was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada
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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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One who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders.
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Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform
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A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices
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For 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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The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
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The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Censu
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An 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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An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
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Effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal.
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A bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
