A | B |
John Spargo | wrote 'Bitter Cry of Children' |
Ida Tarbell | wrote 'History of Standard Oil Company' |
The Grange | union of farmers |
Jane Addams | founder of Hull House |
Lincoln Steffens | wrote 'Shame of the Cities' |
Carry Nation | fought for temperance with bible & ax |
Jacob Riis | wrote 'How the other half lives' |
William Jennings Bryan | Cross of Gold Speech |
William McKinley | won election of 1896 |
Susan B. Anthony | fought for women's suffrage |
Upton Sinclair | wrote 'The Jungle' |
Free & unlimited coinage of silver | platform of 1896 Democratic Party |
American Federation of Labor | labor union founded by Samuel Gompers |
suffrage | right to vote |
Hull House | helped immigrants & poor living in slums |
temperance movement | fight to ban sale & distribution of alcohol |
'History of Standard Oil Company' | exposed Rockefellar corruption |
'Bitter Cry of Children' | exposed young boys working in coal mines |
'Shame of the Cities' | exposed government and voting corruption |
'How the other half Lives' | exposed tenement conditions |
'The Jungle' | exposed horrible meatpacking conditions |
looked out for the farmers | Populist Party |
reasons for low wages | depression, immigrants, competetive market, power of employers |
decline of Knights of Labor | loss of RR strike, Haymarket riot, mismanagement, AFL |
American Federation of Labor | wanted shorter hours, higher wages, child labor laws, better conditions |
barbed wire | invented by Joseph Glidden |
oil drilling methods | invented by Edwin Drake |
air brakes on trains | invented by George Westinghouse |
Telegraph | invented by Samuel Morse |
'What hath God wrought?' | first morse code message |
telephone | invented by Alexander Grahamn Bell |
Bessemer process | made it possible to produce large amounts of steel |
vacuum cleaner | James Murray Spangler |