us history set one

Labor unions

Organization of workers purpose advance members respect wages benefits and working conditions formed during industrial revolution

AFL

Skilled craft and trade workers, getting employers better working conditions no gov changed for all

Knights of labor

First large labor represented all workers skilled or unskilled women aa Gov changes

Haymaker riot

Many members of knights of labor strikes bomb set off killed public trials anarchist convicted kol lost support

boss tweed of New Yorks Tammany hall taken down by

Thomas nast

Spoil system/patronage

Appoint applicants to public office reward for loyalty to political part in power

Led to Pendleton civil service act

Invented the telephone

Alexander graham bell

market lightbulb black

Thomas Edison

Employed by Edison improved light bulb

Lewis Howard

Developed line of Beaty and hair products for aa women

Madame CJ walker

First African American women to receive patent invented food away bed

Sarah E Goode

Settle ment houses

Poor immigrant neighborhoods ran by women community services

Most famous house ?

Jane adams full house

Keaten Owen child labor act

Passed by pres Wilson 1962 banned workers under 14 factories ruled unconstitutional 1918

Social góspel movement

Religious movement Protestant church industrialized society

Gospel of wealth

Andrew carnegie called for wealthy to participate in philanthropy generous donation for money to good causes like helping Poot

Many public libraries

Interstate Highway system

President Eisenhower construction provided billons of dollars to build highways many jobs and allowing growth of suburbs

Beatnicks/best generation

Social literacy movement of young people in 1950s 1960s rejected conventional society consumerism and confirming original hipsters

Baby boom

Us birthdate exploded after ww11 1944-1861 65mill children were born

End of Great Depression

Benefits of gi bill

GI bill

Serviceman’s readjustment act of 1944

Law provided tabs benefits after ww II veterans low mortgages low interest loans cause of post ww 2 economic prosperity