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| 6204189292 | People's (Populist) Party | An agrarian-populist political party in the United States. For a few years, 1892-96, it played a major role as a left-wing force in American politics. Drew support from angry farmers in the West and South and operated on the left-wing of American politics. Highly critical of capitalism, especially banks and railroads. Allied itself with the labor movement. |  | 0 |
| 6204189294 | The Gilded Age | The late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. Term derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding of economic progress. |  | 1 |
| 6204189295 | Social Darwinism | Term coined in the late 19th century to describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest." Provided a justification for the enormous wealth and power wielded by industrialists in the latter half of the 19th century. |  | 2 |
| 6204189297 | Jane Addams | A pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She created the first Hull House. Co-winner of 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. |  | 3 |
| 6204189314 | Dawes Act | land given to individual Indians to discourage tribal mindset; encouraged Indians to farm for a living instead of communally owning land |  | 4 |
| 6204189322 | Homestead and Pullman Strikes | Industrial lockouts and strikes that showed battle between corporations and labor unions. Ended with government intervention on the side of big business. |  | 5 |
| 6204189325 | Chinese Exclusion Act | First law limiting immigration based on race; effectively stopped immigration from China through the end of WWII. |  | 6 |
| 6204189329 | Sherman Antitrust Act | Outlawed monopolistic business practices; not effective initially without a strong progressive federal government that would enforce it. |  | 7 |
| 6204189338 | Andrew Carnegie | A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry. |  | 8 |
| 6204237166 | capitalism | an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth. | 9 | |
| 6204241541 | Labor Movement | a political campaig to improve the rights and conditions of working people. | 10 | |
| 6204252972 | management revolution | an internal management structure adopted by many large, complex corporations that distinguished top executives from those responsible for day-to-day operations and departmentalized operations by function | 11 | |
| 6204264311 | maternalism | The belief that women should contribute to civic and political life through their special talents as mothers, Christians, and moral guides. This ideology was put into action by social reform organizations. | 12 | |
| 6204274200 | naturalism | a literary movement that suggested that human beings were not so much rational agents and shapers of their own destinies as blind victims of forces beyond their control | 13 | |
| 6204289008 | suffrage | the right to vote | 14 | |
| 6204295122 | Temperance movement | social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages | 15 |
