"Waving a bloody shirt"

Refers to Benjamin Franklin Butler making a speech at

the U.S house of representatives and held a bloody shirt.

Laissez-Faire

"Let people do as they choose"; describing opposition to government action to regulate economic or personal education.

Individualism 

A person of whatever background could rise as far as their talents and energy would allow them.

Interstate Commerce Commission (1887)

U.S. federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry by regulating rates.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

First law to to restrict monopolies, trusts, and business combinations.

Civil Service Act of 1883

Act that said jobs should be based on merit.

Nativism

Anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic feeling in the 1830's. The largest group was New York's Order of the Star-Spangled Banner.

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Halted Chinese immigration to the United States

Saum Song Bo

Chinese-American writer

U.S. Immigration (Dillingham) Commission

A congressional committee that studied the origins and consequences of recent immigration to the U.S.

Limited Liability

A Person's financial liabilty is limited to a fixed sum.

Gustavus Swift

A cattle dealer in Chicago who came up with the 1st refrigerated railroad carts.

Andrew Carnegie

He led the American steel industry in the late 19th century.  

John D. Rockefeller

Was the founder of the Standard oil company which was the first trust.

Social Darwinism

A theory of natural selection to society; "Survival of the Fittest"

Grandfather clause

If your grandfather had been eligible to vote in 1867 then you were allowed to vote.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

U.S. Supreme Court decision supporting the legality of Jim Crow laws that permitted or required "seperate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites.

Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895)

Speech given by Booker T. Washington encouraging blacks to accomodate to segregation.

NAACP

(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

A civil rights organization that brought lawsuits to discriminatory practices.

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Black nationalist movement active in the U.S. led by Marcus Garvey.

Eugenics

A science for improving the human race by regulating who can bear children.

Jane Addams, Hull house

A settlement house founded by Jane Addams that helped immigrants with it's social, artistic, and educational programs.

Triangle Fire

A fire incident at the triangle shirtwaist factory in New York.

Louis Brandeis

Was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who was an active ally of the labor movement.

Muller v. Oregon

Dealt with state restrictions on the working hours of women.

Meat Inspection Act (1906)

Set strict standards of cleanliness in the meatpacking industry.

16th & 17th Amendments

16: Right to income tax

17: Direct election of senators

White Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act) 1910

Prohibited white slavery and to address prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking.

18th Amendment

Banned the maufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.

Souls of Black Folk

A book by W.E.B. De Bois about blacks dissatisfied with the accommodationist policies of Booker T. Washington.

John D. Rockefeller

Dominated the oil industry and bought out competing oil refineries.

National Origins Act/ Immigration Law of 1924

Law that was set to improve the quality of democratic citizenship and to employ scientific methods to set public policy.

Sandford Dole/ Queen Liliuokalani

Dole: a lawyer in the Hawaiian islands who advocated the westernization of Hawaiian Gov't and culture.

Liliuokalani: the reigning queen of Hawaii

Alfred Mahan, Influenece of Sea Power upon History (1890)

 A book by Mahan that presents the idea that countires with greater naval power will have greater worldwide impact.

Emilio Aguinaldo

Filipino leader who declared the independence of his own country and ordered his troops to fight against the Americans.

Teller Amendment

An amendment stating that the U.S. had no intention of annexing or dominating Cuba

Industrial Workers of The World

Organzied all working people into one big union

Nickname was Wobblies

Espionage Act (1917)

Sedition Act (1918)

Limited critisim on government leaders and policies by imposing fines and prison terms on those who opposed American participation in the First World War.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics 

the book pointed to the coming transformation of both economic and family life.

Margaret Sanger

placed the issue of birth control at the heart of new feminism

National Womens Party

pressed for the right to vote with militant tactics

19th Amendment

gave women the right to vote

Eugene Debs, Socialist Party

One of the founding members of the International labor union and the Industrial Workers of the World and a candiadte of the Socialists Party