Progressive Era

Vocabulary

1. Labor Union• Workers

organizing into groups to

demand better pay and working conditions from their employer.

2. Wages

•Money paid for doing a

job.

3. Sweatshop

•Crowded urban

factories.

4. American Federation of Labor

• 1881 group of national trade

formed to represent skilled

workers in various crafts.

5. Homestead Strike of 1892

• A violent strike at a Carnegie steel

plant that resulted in

damaging the reputation of

unions.

6. Progressive Movement

• A philosophical movement aimed at improving the lives and working conditions of U.S.

citizens.

7. Temperance Movement

• A “crusade” against the use

of alcohol urged individuals to stop drinking.

8. Prohibition• Passing laws to

prohibit the making,

selling, and distribution of

alcohol.

9. Speakeasies• Secret clubs at

which bootleg alcohol was

purchased and consumed.

10. Bootleggers• People who manufactured,

sold, or distributed

alcohol illegally.

11. Smuggle

• Illegal transportation,

distribution, and sale of alcohol.

12.18th Amendment• This

Constitutional amendment

prohibited the transportation,

distribution, and sale of alcohol.

13. Repeal(As in a Constitutional Amendment)

•To cancel an act or

law.

14. 21st Amendment

• Repealed the 18th

amendment.

15. Suffrage

•The right to

vote.

16. 19th Amendment

• Granted women

suffrage (the right to vote).

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.

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.