unit 3 key terms

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  • Robber Barons (Captains of Industry)

    Robber Barons (Captains of Industry)
    Capitalist and Industrialists becoming wealthy by corrupting unethical means and exploiting natural resources.
  • Tenement

    Tenement
    An overcrowded apartment for the poor.
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    She Was a concerned for women's rights and founded the Suffrage Movement.
  • Jacob Riis

    Jacob Riis
    Noticed the slums of New York and made the Reform movement to change things.
  • Samuel Gompers

    Samuel Gompers
    Helped found the American Federation of Labor and helped workers strike and unionize on their conditions.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines
    Local organizations capable of maintaining a large number of votes on behalf of candidates running.
  • Nativism

    Nativism
    Native born residents of the U.S limiting the rights of immigrants.
  • Bessemer steel production

    Bessemer steel production
    First inexpensive industry to mass produce steel.
  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs
    One of the founding fathers of the Industrial Workers of the World
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow
    Believed in fair judgement of jury and led the Monkey Trial.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Leader of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War.
  • William Jenning Bryan

    William Jenning Bryan
    Lead the Democratic Convention with his favor on free silver in his Cross of Gold speech.
  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age
    The time between the Civil War and World War I where the U.S. population and economy grew.
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    Founded the Hull House for settlement. She was a supporter for immigrants, the poor, women, and peace.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Concerned with African American justice and made the anti-lynching crusade
  • Industrialization

    Economy transformation based on manufacturing of goods.
  • Andrew Carneige

    Andrew Carneige
    He was Leader of the American steel industry throughout its expansion.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Created "The Jungle" as a reflection from observing the working conditions in the meat-packaging industry.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlaws the monopolistic business practices and protects the public from failure of the market.
  • Labor union

    Group of workers uniting to recognized and make decisions on their conditions of their work.
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell
    Created the telephone and graphophone.
  • Haymarket RIot

    Workers strike for an 8-hr work day but soon turned when a bomb was thrown at the police killing 8.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    From public demand of regulating railroad operations.
  • Settlement House

    Ease the transition of immigrants to learning American values.
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    A rush of thousands of people heading to Canada ever since gold was discovered there.
  • Populism and Progressiveness

    The belief of citizens having the right to control their government and not changing things for improvement.
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker
    Term used to characterize reform-minded people who wanted to journalize corrupt industries and leaders.
  • Initiative, Refrendum, Reform

    Three powers reserved to enable the voters, by petition on ballots, to propose or repeal legislation, or to remove an elected official from office.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Prevent the sale and transportation of altered foods and drugs.
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Promote the United States commercial and economic power by guaranteeing loans made to important foreign countries.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Established stability by introducing the Central Bank.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment
    The people elect their U.S senators.
  • Labor Strikes

    Labor Strikes
    Response to mass labor and employee grievances.
  • Social Gospel

    Protestant Christians to improve the economic, moral and social conditions of the urban working class.
  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Involved national security, oil companies, bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    gave women the right to vote
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment
    Declared the transport, sale, and production of alcohol illegal, but not the consumption.
  • 16th Amendment

    Allows the government to collect income tax from Americans to build the nation.