Muckrakers
This person stood up for womens rights.
Charolette Perkins Gilman
someone who owns or manages a large, successful business or company.
Captain of Industry
A horrible fire where a lot of people died.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
this person created the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
What was the drug act?
an act that prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
This person stood up for women in mental assylums
Nellie Bly
successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical
Robber Barron
A bloody confrontation where gaurds killed people.
Homestead Strike
this person guided force behind the creation and development of the Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
What was the sherman antitrust act?
regulations that encourage competition by limiting the market power of any particular firm
This person stood up against child labor
Lewis Hine
a person who supports the idea of nativism
Nativist
A railroad strike and boycott.
Pullman Strike
this person helped build the formidable American steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
What was the meat nspection act?
an act that prevented adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
This person stood up against monopolies
Ida Tarbell
the process of making an area more urban
Urbanization
A bombing that happened at a labor demonstration
Haymarket Strike
this person was an American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives (1890), shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions in New York City
Jacob Riis
what was the chinese exclution act?
a U.S. federal law that suspended the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years in 1882 and was later extended to become permanent in 1902
This person stood up against the long harsh working conditions
Upton Sinclair
a time of great political corruption and wealth inequality in the late 1800s
Gilded Age
The culmination of the gilded age
Industrial revolution
this person stole an amount estimated by an aldermen's committee in 1877 at between $25 million and $45 million from New York City taxpayers from political corruption, but later estimates ranged as high as $200 million (equivalent to $5 billion in 2023)
Boss Tweed
what was the Interstate Commerce Act?
an act to regulate railroad rates