They're Just Trying to Help!
This woman established Hull House in Chicago, thus sparking the settlement house movement, an urban movement to aid newly arrived immigrants and the poor by providing shelter and basic services.
Jane Addams
The ideal of natural selection but applied to socially to humankind during the late 19th century
Social Darwinism
Tenements
This was the name for NYC's political machine led by William "Boss" Tweed
Tammany Hall
This political party, a party of farmers and commoners, formed in response to widespread monopolistic control and political corruption, wanted the adoption of silver, an income tax, nationalization of the railroads, and direct election of senators
Populist Party
Ida B Wells
The ideal that the wealthy have a moral obligation to help the poor; this concept led many like Carnegie and Rockefeller to donate millions in funding libraries, museums, and other public institutions
Gospel of Wealth
This 1862 legislation provided 160 acres of land for just a small fee, so long as the inhabitants of the land cultivated the property for 5 years before obtaining permanent ownership.
The Homestead Act
This man, a disgruntled and deranged office-seeker, assassinated James Garfield in 1881 inside of a D.C. train station.
This national labor union was a union of unskilled workers
Knights of Labor
WEB Dubois, who earned a doctorate from Harvard and argued for immediate racial equality, believed that this percentage of black Americans would lead the race toward equality.
10%
This strike featured US Steel hiring the private Pinkerton army to disperse protesters in a Pennsylvania plant.
Homestead Strike (1892)
Italy, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Russia, Poland
Republicans divided into these two factions during the late 1800s over issues of patronage.
Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds
With her hatchet and Bible, this woman entered saloons to destroy the alcohol supply in order to protest alcohol consumption
Carrie Nation
Booker T Washington, a former slave, founded this technical school in Alabama, believing that gradual equality for black Americans would come through self-help and education.
Tuskegee Institute
This new process blowing air through molten iron to oxidize and remove impurities like carbon, silicon, and manganese, dramatically lowered steel's cost, enabling large-scale construction like railroads, bridges, and skyscrapers.
The Bessemer Process
This 1862 Act provided federal subsidies to railroad companies that would eventually lead to the transcontinental railroad by 1869 + a handful more in the following years.
Pacific Railway Act
This tariff, the highest peacetime tariff in US history, infuriated democrats in 1890.
McKinley Tariff
Identify one of the most prominent organizations with the goal of prohibiting alcohol
WCTU or Anti-Saloon League
This female reformer, a labor leader and co-founder of the NAACP, also founded the Consumers League, which aimed to abolish child labor, establish a minimum wage, and limit working hours.
Florence Kelley
This man, a German, patented the world's first modern car in 1886.
Karl Benz
Naming themselves in reference to a Biblical event, these were black Americans who migrated to Great Plains states, especially Kansas, during the late 1800s in order to escape the racially violent Jim Crow South.
Exodusters
This 1887 legislation aimed to regulate interstate trade, the first major attempt by Congress to do so.
The Interstate Commerce Act
This man was the most prominent leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the premier labor union for skilled workers and tradesmen
Samuel Gompers