Definition | Term |
Populist Democratic candidate for President in 1896 and 1900 | |
Labor rally turned violent when a bomb was thrown. KIlled 8 police officers. | |
Carnegie's steel company | |
Wrote a Century of Dishonor to detail the abuses of the US government towards Native Americans | |
Crusaded against sweatshops, child labor, and for the minimum wage. | |
Inventor of the lightbulb among many other inventions | |
Succeeded James Garfield as President of the United States | |
Term used to describe the industrial changes coming to the South to entice investment | |
Leg on intercontinental railroad that started in Omaha, NE | |
Applied Christian ethics to solve the growing social problems in the cities | |
Corrupt leader of Tammany Hall that traded favors/jobs with new immigrants in exchange for votes | |
Governor of Illinois instrumental in the Progressive reform movement | |
Famous financier during the Gilded Age | |
Largely agrarian movement that looked to regulate banks, railroads, etc. | |
Set up the 'separate but equal' doctrine | |
Set of discriminatory laws in the post-Civil War South | |
The first national labor federation. Admitted skilled & unskilled workers | |
People who broke the law and attempted to settle in Oklahoma earlier than the sale date | |
Rockefeller's company | |
Famous Gilded Age newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Dispatch | |
Where the railroad companies join together to fix high prices | |
Leading American railroad speculator. Also teamed with James Fisk to manipulate the gold market. | |
Famous historian who theorized on the impact of the frontier in American History | |
Republicans who, over financial corruption, voted for (D) Grover Cleveland | |
Significant labor union that focused on the 'bread and butter'' issues | |
Synonym for monopoly | |
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