Progressive Era

VocabularyLate1800s to early

1900s

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 factorie

s.

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 distributio

n of alcohol illegal.

9. Speakeasies Secret clubs at which

bootleg alcohol

was purchased

and consumed.

10. Bootleggers People who manufacture

d, sold, or distributed

alcohol illegally.

So that’s why they call them

Bootleggers!

11. Smuggle Illegal

transportation,

distribution, and sale of

alcohol.

12.18th

Amendment This Constitution

al amendment prohibited

the transportati

on, distribution , and sale of

alcohol.

13. Repeal(As in a Constitutional Amendment)

To cancel an act or law.

14. 21st

Amendment Repealed

the 18th amendmen

t.

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.