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a United States federal law enacted on July 14, 1890. ... They hoped to enlist the government to increase the demand for silver. Originally, the bill was simply known as the Silver Purchase Act of 1890.

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nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law. It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland.

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an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.

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A type of economy in which some central authority makes a wide range of decisions pertaining to production and wages

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The development of the spinning machine by Sir Richard Arkwright in England led directly to the rise of the Industrial Revolution, and a new world of manufactured products.

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On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago'sHaymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing.

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The primary feature of the Everglades is the sawgrass prairie. ... TheEverglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin and part of the neotropic ecozone.

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A market economy is an economic system in which economic decisions and the pricing of goods and services are guided solely by the aggregate interactions of a country's individual citizens and businesses. There is little government intervention or central planning.

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The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the AmericanSouth.

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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an Americancaptain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of theFord Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

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Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method". However, innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or existing market needs.

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The Gentlemen's Agreement between the United States and Japan in 1907-1908 represented an effort by President Theodore Roosevelt to calm growing tension between the two countries over the immigration of Japanese workers.

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a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

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is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there

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is the process where an increasing percentage of a population lives in cities and suburbs. This process is often linked to industrialization and modernization, as large numbers of people leave farms to work and live in cities.

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refers, specifically, to the seventy-two-year-long battle for woman's right to vote in the United States. ... Famous suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. In 1919, the U. S

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Social and cultural centers established by reformers in slum areas of American cities during the 1890s and the early 1900s. Jane Addams founded the most famous settlement house, in Chicago

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to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.

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National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), American organization, founded in 1869 and based in New York City, that was created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton when the women's rights movement split into two groups over the issue of suffrage for African American men.

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Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism.

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Child labor refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organisations

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was a United States federal law enacted on July 14, 1890. ... They hoped to enlist the government to increase the demand for silver. Originally, the bill was simply known as the Silver Purchase Act of 1890.

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was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875. ... The Farmers'Alliance moved into politics in the early 1890s under the banner of the People's Party, commonly known as the "Populists."

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1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. TheAct required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates.

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FREEPORT DOCTRINE was Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation.

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a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.

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a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite.

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an isolated farm, with its farmhouse and nearby buildings, belonging to monks or nuns or to a feudal lord

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were a series of laws passed in several midwestern states of theUnited States, namely Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois, in the late 1860s and early 1870s. The Granger Laws were promoted primarily by a group of farmers known as The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.

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westward expansion was the key to the nation's health: He believed that a republic depended on an independent, virtuous citizenry for its survival, and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership, especially the ownership of small farms.

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A law passed in the 1860s that offered up to 160 acres of public land to any head of a family who paid a registration fee, lived on the land for five years, and cultivated it or built on it.

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A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.

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Official name Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. a secret hate group inspired by the former, founded in 1915 and currently active across the U.S., especially in the South, directed against black people, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, foreign-born individuals, and other groups.

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is someone who would farm land that belonged to a landowner. The sharecropping family would plow, plant, weed, and harvest the land. However, they would only keep a small share of the crop, while the landowner would get the rest.

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refers to a traveler who arrives in a new region with only a satchel (or carpetbag) of possessions, and who attempts to profit from or gain control over his new surroundings, often against the will or consent of the original inhabitants

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The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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An amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1868. It was primarily concerned with details of reintegrating the southern states after the Civil War and defining some of the rights of recently freed slaves.

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An 1865amendment to the US Constitution that forbids slavery and forced labor except, as regards the latter, as punishment for crime. ... There was a formal process to amend the US Constitution, something Lincoln had to finesse through Congress even with the Civil War raging.

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a major battle (1-3 July 1863) during the American Civil War which helped the US to win the war. More soldiers died than in any other battle in US history. It was fought inGettysburg, Pennsylvania, between the southern forces under General Robert E Lee and the US soldiers led by General George Mead.

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a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered. siege of Vicksburg. American Civil War, United States Civil War, War between the States - civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865.