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Progressiv e Era Vocabulary Late1800s to early 1900s
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Amendment Repealed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.
