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An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
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A Scottish-American business magnate and philanthropist
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Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.
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a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.
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An English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president.
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One of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World
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American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.
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an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States
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William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska.
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The "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer,
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African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s.
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The process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods.
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an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books with many covering working conditions and industry
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a 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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A political machine is 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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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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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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Populism, initiated back in late 19th century was a movement that was led by the farmers for the economic change, whereas Progressivism, commenced in the beginning of 20th century was the movement of urban middle class against the political system
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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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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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The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police.
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Was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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antitrust law passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, which regulates competition among enterprises.
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A migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada
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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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The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
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Nativism is the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
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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 strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances.
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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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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. Wikipedia
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effectively 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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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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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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a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the US.
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Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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A bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
