Black America
He believed that Black Americans should develop useful skills to demonstrate their value in white-dominant society.
Booker T. Washington
Mark Twain coined this term in describing an America that was "glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath."
Gilded Age
Regarded as the "Grandfather of Communism," his Communist Manifesto envisioned a revolution of factory workers.
Karl Marx
J.D. Rockefeller
Used by presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt to break up monopolies and other powerful corrupt business entities.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
He believed that Black Americans deserved immediate political and economic equality.
W.E.B. DuBois
Perhaps the most famous example of muckraking journalism, this novel by Upton Sinclair highlighted the plight of Chicago's working poor.
The Jungle
A leading anarchist thinker, she is credited with saying, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
Emma Goldman
This steel magnate became one of the world's richest men before donating most of his money to philanthropic causes.
Andrew Carnegie
Allows for voters, rather than state lawmakers, to choose Senators.
17th Amendment
Laws named after an immensely racist minstrel show.
Jim Crow
These workers were the subject of Lewis Hines's photography.
Child coal miners
This "Queen of Anarchy" was infamous for her promotion of violence against the wealthy, and became a widow when her husband became a Haymarket martyr.
Lucy Parsons
This man used his banking empire to create monopolies over much of the American economy and a leading bank continues to bear his name.
J.P. Morgan
These allow voters to participate in the creation and incorporation of laws.
Initiatives/ Referenda
Supreme Court ruling that enshrined racist segregation based on the principle of "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis focused on the unhealthy lives of the working poor living in these.
Tenements
Nickname given to the International Workers of the World, the worldwide radical labor union.
Wobblies
His reliance on yellow journalism helped him create a massive media empire, and his granddaughter later survived a kidnapping by a radical terrorist organization.
William Randolph Hearst
The Haymarket massacre occurred while workers led massive strikes in an attempt to gain this basic protection.
8 Hour Workday
A hereditary social division that determines a person's status, occupation, and social standing, often with rigid boundaries that limit social mobility
Caste
This suffragist used the power of her pen to shed light on the scourge of racial violence aimed at Black Americans.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Seen by some as the "Goldilocks" of the alternatives to capitalism, this system allows for both democratic participation and state ownership of necessary goods and services.
Socialism
Daniel Day Lewis plays a ruthless oil tycoon in this film, based on a novel written by Upton Sinclair.
There Will Be Blood
This worker-focused holiday was largely replaced by Labor Day, a less-inclusive, watered-down version.
May Day