Progressive Era Vocabulary
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Progressive Era
Vocabulary
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1. Labor Union• Workers
organizing into groups to
demand better pay and working conditions from their employer.
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2. Wages
•Money paid for doing a
job.
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3. Sweatshop
•Crowded urban
factories.
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4. American Federation of Labor
• 1881 group of national trade
formed to represent skilled
workers in various crafts.
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5. Homestead Strike of 1892
• A violent strike at a Carnegie steel
plant that resulted in
damaging the reputation of
unions.
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6. Progressive Movement
• A philosophical movement aimed at improving the lives and working conditions of U.S.
citizens.
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7. Temperance Movement
• A “crusade” against the use
of alcohol urged individuals to stop drinking.
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8. Prohibition• Passing laws to
prohibit the making,
selling, and distribution of
alcohol.
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9. Speakeasies• Secret clubs at
which bootleg alcohol was
purchased and consumed.
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10. Bootleggers• People who manufactured,
sold, or distributed
alcohol illegally.
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11. Smuggle
• Illegal transportation,
distribution, and sale of alcohol.
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12.18th Amendment• This
Constitutional amendment
prohibited the transportation,
distribution, and sale of alcohol.
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13. Repeal(As in a Constitutional Amendment)
•To cancel an act or
law.
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14. 21st Amendment
• Repealed the 18th
amendment.
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15. Suffrage
•The right to
vote.
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16. 19th Amendment
• Granted women
suffrage (the right to vote).
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17. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Ms. Stanton is a founder of the women’s rights
movement. • In July 1848, she helped to organize the first women’s rights convention.
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18. Susan B. Anthony• Mrs. Anthony is a
founder of the women’s rights movement.
• She partnered with Ms. Stanton to lead the women’s movement.