response to problems caused by rapid urbanization and industrialization after the Civil War

a political party founded in 1892 that supported work reforms, immigration restrictions, and government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, etc

An exclusive right issued by the U.S. Patent Office that enables the recipient to manufacture, sell, or otherwise control an invention for a period of 20 years from the date of the grant.

a business that sells portions of ownership called stock shares

Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived

Immigration processing center that opened in New York Harbor in 1892

immigrant processing station in San Francisco Bay

The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion, and political & economic issues

Complete control of a product or service by one person or group

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

A person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business

an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means.

Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries & society and expose it to the public

An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

In a factory, an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product.

make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.

the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.

Movement of people from rural areas to cities

Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to emphasize sensationalism over facts

policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.

Was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

the right of women to vote

also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid industrialization (peak was 1870-1914)

first legislation enacted by the United States Congress (1890) to curb concentrations of power (monopolies) that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition.

Early 1900's muckraker journalist & photographer who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives"; exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC and Hell's Kitchen

March 1911 fire in New York factory that trapped young women workers inside locked exit doors; nearly 50 ended up jumping to their death; while 100 died inside the factory; led to the establishment of many factory reforms, including increasing safety precautions for workers

A war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba. The U.S. acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

Waterway across the Isthmus of Panama. The canal connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The United States built it from 1904 to 1914 on territory leased from Panama.

An African-American educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who headed Tuskegee Institute, a college for African-Americans in Alabama.

was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author, and editor; first black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910

Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to levy (collect) an income tax from all Americans.

Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.

established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal in 1919

Gave women the right to vote

the coming of people into a country in order to live and work there