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Terms used for businessmen and bankers who dominated the US industries during the 19th century.
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populism-farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort
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- Poor standards and crowded buildings
- Large old buildings that were built poorly and overflowed with people divided into a number of individual flats.
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1820 - 1906
Women's Right Activist
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Movement to ensure that native-born Americans received better treatment than immigrants
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1849 1914
A Social Reformer and Muckraker
Photographed in the night of the tenement houses and everyone who lived inside them
WROTE "How the Other Half Lived" -
1847 to 1922
Invented the first Telephone: 1876
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They make steel rust resistant, lighter, and flexible.
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1858-1919
26th President of the US
Urged expansion for US power
Enforced the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary to take control of the Panama Canal -
1862-1935
She was a black women who campaigned for peace, prohibition and suffrage , and she criticized the teaching of evolution -
- a former Nebraska congressman
- he addressed that them, the people, need to assemble delegates
- "Cross of Gold"
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an American industrialist who made a fortune in the steel industry by co owning a once small steel company in Pittsburg
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A boss commands the support of a corps of supporters and business who receive awards for their efforts
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The Gilded Age was a corrupt, rapid economic growth time, labor union strike filled time period
1870-1900 -
Labor unions and workers come together and protested and petitioned their place of work by just not working.
EX: Great railroad Strike; 1877
Homestead Strike 1892 -
they provide a safe place for poor children and children who need medical care
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This were groups of people who advocated for better working conditions of labor workers
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This was a rally near Chicago Haymarket square that turned into a riot after a bomb was thrown (labor activist were to blame) into the police
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This act prevented monopolization and was made specifically for the railroad industry.
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She developed Hull Houses. Hull Houses opened opportunities for social openings and educational possibilities for people in the urban Chicago neighborhood.
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This was an act that was enforced by the federal government to prevent monopolization. It also regulates competition between companies
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One of the founding fathers of the The American Railway Union
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1869-1899
This is when a large amount of people immigrated to Yukon to search and profit out of gold -
This was the POWER the people had towards the law. Granted Citizens to opposed laws and create ideas for others.
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These people were reformers who deliver their message through journalism
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Upton Sinclair wrote a novel called "Jungle" that described the unsanitary practice of the meat packing industry
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An Act that enforces that all vending food or drugs should be labeled appropriately and that they aren't pampered with.
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Protestant ministers called for social reforms such as
-Abolition of Child Labor
-Safer working conditions -
1909-1913
This was when the US used its finances to demonstrate the power of shipping across the Earth. -
A group that was created to regulate the amount of money in circulayion
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This amendment gave congress the power to tax personal incomes
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Enacted that state senators will b elected by state legislators.
Senators will be elected by popular vote -
This amendment prohibited intoxicating alcoholic beverages
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The secretary of the interior leased oil rich government land at teapot dome in exchange for personal bribes
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No state could deny a citizen to vote based on there sex
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He was a union leader
President of American Federation of Labor -
He represented scopes at the "monkey trial" on evolution in 1925
