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| 5811939234 | 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 | |
| 5811939235 | Assimilation | the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. | 1 | |
| 5811939237 | Consumer Culture | consumption choices and behaviours made from a social and cultural point of view, as opposed to an economic or psychological one. | 2 | |
| 5811939238 | 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. | 3 | |
| 5811939239 | 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." | 4 | |
| 5811939240 | Gospel of Wealth | an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. | 5 | |
| 5811939241 | 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 | 6 | |
| 5811939242 | Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 - Legalized segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal." | 7 | |
| 5811939248 | trust | A combination of corporations, usually in the same industry, in which stockholders trade their stock to a central board in exchange for trust certificates. | 8 | |
| 5811939276 | reservation | Public land designated for use by native Americans. | 9 | |
| 5812023461 | financial panic | caused by too many railroads and factories being formed than existing markets could bear and the over-loaning by banks to those projects; main causes, over-speculation and too much credit | 10 | |
| 5812023462 | laissez-faire | hands off by the government, good for big business, Adam Smith Wealth of Nations | 11 | |
| 5812023463 | organized labor | unions, KoL and AFL, fought for 8 hour work day, bargaining, representation, etc... Samuel Gompers, Terence V. Powderly | 12 | |
| 5812024947 | management | middlemen between owners and labor: Example: Frick | 13 | |
| 5812024948 | New South | efforts by industrialists to modernize the south through factories, railroads, crop diversification, etc... | 14 | |
| 5812026173 | New immigrants | from southern and eastern Europe, catholic | 15 | |
| 5812026174 | political machines | political group 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. | 16 | |
| 5812027964 | transcontinental railroad | connected at Promitory Point, Utah; revolutionized travel and economic trade in the US | 17 | |
| 5812029732 | boomtowns | a town that virtually appears and grows overnight; evidence of mining and economics in the west | 18 | |
| 5812029733 | American bison | extinction of the Bison shows the settlement and takeover of the West and the deterioration of the Native American | 19 | |
| 5812032152 | Cross of Gold Speech | William Jennings Bryan; populist/democratic candidate for 1896 election; promotes government monetization of silver | 20 | |
| 5812032285 | Settlement houses | Jane Adams, Hull House, middle class women's efforts to assist urban immigrants | 21 |
