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Knight of Labor |
organized union group that involved both skilled and unskilled workers going against working conditions. |
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Panic of 1873 |
The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1879, and even longer in some countries |
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Mark Twain |
Wrote The Gilded age and satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War |
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Gilded Age |
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. |
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Robber Barons |
robber baron became a derogatory term applied to wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen |
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John D. Rockefeller |
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. |
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J. P Morgan |
Business man -refinanced railroads during depression of 1893 - built intersystem alliance by buying stock in competing railroads - marketed US government securities on large scale |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law, It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. |
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American Federation of Labor(AFL) |
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was the first federation of labor union in the U.S that allowed skilled workers to fight against harsh treatment. |
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Haymarket Square Riot |
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square |
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Sherman Antitrust Act |
It prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anti-competitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trust |
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Eugene V. Debs |
Eugene was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the industrial workers of the world , and socialist. |
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Henry Ford |
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production |
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Social Darwinism |
claimed to have applied biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics |
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Jane Adams |
worked for women's rights and social change for more than half a century |
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Progressivism |
Progressivism is based on the idea of progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president, He was a leader of the Republican Party and created the New Deal to help with the Great Depression. |
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Muckrakers |
The term muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines. |
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Upton Sinclair |
Author that Wrote The Jungle, to criticize harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities |
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Muller v. Oregon |
was a decision in U.S Supreme Court history, as it justifies both sex discimination and usage of labor laws during the time period. |
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Seventeenth amendment |
U.S Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. |
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Woodrow Wilson |
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and leader of the Progressive Movement |
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Federal Reserve Act of 1913 |
The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the United States |
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Clayton Antitrust Act |
The Clayton Antitrust Act attempts to prohibit certain actions that lead to anti-competitiveness. |
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Labor Acts , 1915-1916 |
La Follette Seamen's Act and Adamson Acts |
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Keating-Owen Child Labor Act |
An act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor and for other purposes. |
