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| AFL | Alberta Federation of Worker |
| Knights of Labor | The Knights promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected Socialism and radicalism, demanded the eight-hour day, and promoted the producers ethic of republicanism. |
| Philanthropy | altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes. |
| Entrepreneur | the process of identifying and starting a new business venture, sourcing and organizing the required resources, while taking both the risks and rewards associated with the venture. |
| Dawes Act | adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. |
| Interstate Commerce Act | a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. |
| Robber Baron | a derogatory term applied to wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen that appeared in North American periodical literature as early as the August 1870 issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | It prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts. |
| Samuel Gompers | a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. |
| Americanization Movement | the process of an immigrant to the United States of America becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs and customs and is assimilated into American society. |
| Bessemer Process | the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace. |
| Political Machines | a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. |
| Social Gospel Movement | The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war. |
