was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894.
a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people; especially, often capitalized :
American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community
series of opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1901, about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War.
was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leader was Terence V. Powderly
is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly.
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.
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.
was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), a Republican politician, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War.
is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act,
were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War
won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist.