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Labor Strikes
A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work -
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Industrialization
The period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. -
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Susan B Anthony
American womens rights activist -
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Nativism
Political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people. -
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Alexander Graham Bell
Credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885. -
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Jacob Riis
Was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer -
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Samuel Gompers
Founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894. -
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Eugene V. Debs
Was a labor organizer and five-time Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president. -
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Bessemer Steel Production
Was 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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Clarence 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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Theodore Roosevelt
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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William Jennings Bryan
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
Won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist. -
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Ida B Wells
American journalist, an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
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Tenement
A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city. -
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Robber Barons
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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The Gilded Age
Was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. -
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Social Gospel
Was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. -
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Upton Sinclair
Was an American writer, Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. -
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Settlement House
Was a reformist social movement. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness. -
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Labor Unions
An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. -
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Haymarket Riot
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
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Interstate Commerce Act 1887
Is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
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Sherman Antitrust Act
Was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices -
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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. -
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Initiative, Referendum, Recall
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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Populism & Progressivism
Populism was a movement that was led by the farmers for the economic change, whereas Progressivism, was the movement of urban middle class against the political system, -
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Muckraker
Characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
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Pure Food and Drug Act
Was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
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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16th Amendments
Allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
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17th Amendments
Established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
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Federal Reserve Act
Act 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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18th Amendments
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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19th Amendments
Granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women's suffrage. -
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921–1923. -
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Political Machines
Political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their efforts.