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One of the groups that literally took on the brunt of the work.
What is Chinese Laborers
the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera
Thomas Edison
Widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894
Pullman Strike
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to manage and protect natural resources, including animal, fungus, and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.
Conservation Movement
Racial segregation and discrimination enforced by laws, customs, and practices in especially the southern states of the U.S. from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until the mid-20th century
Jim Crow
American industrialist and philanthropist and founder of the Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
A trust is a fiduciary arrangement that allows a third party, or trustee, to hold assets on behalf of a beneficiary or beneficiaries.
Trusts
Gompers is noted for having shifted the primary goal of American unionism away from social issues
Samuel Gompers
Passed by Congress May 13, 1912, and ratified April 8, 1913
Direct Election of Senators
A muckraker was any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing.
Muckrakers
large companies that controlled the industry or sector they were in with the ability to control the price of the goods and services they provided.
What is Monopoly
North America's first transcontinental railroad
Transcontinental Railroad
Sitting Bull was the political and spiritual leader of the Sioux warriors who destroyed General George Armstrong Custer's force in the famous battle of Little Big Horn.
Sitting Bull
one of the first settlement houses in the United States
Hull House
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation
NAACP
The rail industry comprises of sale, manufacture, and operation of railway technology.
Railroad Industry
In 1886, under the leadership of Samuel Gompers, they organized themselves as the AFL, a loose federation that remained for half a century the sole unifying agency of the American labour movement.
AFL
the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
Wounded Knee
The History of the Standard Oil Company
Ida Tarbell
Upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Steel industry, the business of processing iron ore into steel, which in its simplest form is an iron-carbon alloy, and in some cases, turning that metal into partially finished products or recycling scrap metal into steel.
Steel Industry
Historic Immigration Station
Ellis Island
In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel, The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair
the ability to assess and initiate things independently
Initiative
the youngest person to become president of the United States. Roosevelt was a leader of the progressive movement and championed
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt