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Industrialization
the development of the industries in a nation. -
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Nativism
A policy that favors the native population more than immagrants. -
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The Gilded Age
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. -
Jacob Riis
Photographed the inside and the outside of the slums in N.Y. -
Settlment house
a reformist social movement that goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical and social ways -
Hay market riot
aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. 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. -
Jane Addams
Founded the first settlement house in the United States. -
Sherman Antitrust act
United States antitrust law passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, which regulates competition among enterprises -
Muckracking
Used to characterize American journalist that search for alleged coruption in companies and industries -
food drug act
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. -
Ida B Wells
-African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
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Andrew Carnegie
Owned Carnegie Steel Corporation, the largest of its kind in the world. -
16th amendment
Allows Congress to impose income tax without dividing it with the census -
17 Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years… (every state will have two Senators, and they will serve six-year terms in Congress.) -
Federal Reserve Act
created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender. -
18th amendment
Prohibited the drinking of liquor. Also banned the production, transport, and sale of liquor -
19 amendment
Gave the raight to vote to women. -
Tea pot dome scandal
big oil companies and extensive bribery and corruption in the Harding administration. The Teapot Dome Scandal surrounded the oilfields, designated as Naval Oil Reserves, in Teapot Dome, Natrona, Wyoming and Elk Hills of the San Joaquin Valley, California.
