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| A building, often in disrepair and usually five or six stories in height, in which cheap apartments were rented. |
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| Triangle Shirtwaist Company |
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| Location of a 1911 industrial disaster which led to government regulation of working conditions. |
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| The most famous of the corrupt urban politicians of the nineteenth century. |
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| Leader of the “Chicago school” of architecture which became renowned for designing buildings that symbolized the modern industrial city. |
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| Point of entry, opened in 1892, for many immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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| Hard-drinking professional baseball player who became an evangelist and toured the United States conducting revivals which attracted thousands. |
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| Feminist who was put on trial for mailing her book, The Woman Rebel, which advocated birth control. |
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| Lochner V. New York (1905) |
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| Struck down a New York state law limiting bakery employees to a ten-hour day. |
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| Hierarchical organizations developed in the nineteenth century that controlled the activities of a political party and was usually headed by a boss. |
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| The New York City political machine which became legendary for its abuse and corruption. |
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| Photographs which, during the Victorian Era, were given out to friends. |
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| A church-based reaction to urban blight and poverty, in which Christian principles of compassion and benevolence were applied to improve the conditions of society. |
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| Chicago entrepreneur who pioneered the mail-order business. |
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| Offered the nation’s first graduate programs, beginning in 1876. |
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| A popular Congregationalist minister who concluded that the city was a “menace to society” |
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| Founder of Chicago’s Hull House, the most famous of the settlement houses. |
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| Reform movement, begun in the 1820s, to temper or restrain the sale and use of alcohol. |
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| A defensive and fearful nationalism, often focused on attacks on Catholics and immigrants. |
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| institutions that trained teachers, usually for two years and mostly for teaching in the |
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| Social reform movement that used neighborhood centers in which workers lived and worked |
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| Naturalization Act of 1870 |
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| American Protective Association |
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