The Progressive Era

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Progressive era

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Period of widespread social activism and political reform addressing problems of urbanization and political corruption in the U.S. from the 1890s to the 1920s

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Urbanization

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Proses of concentrating the population of cities

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Tenement house

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House divided into separate rented rooms, usually in poor conditions and overcrowded

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Hull House

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One of the first settlement houses in the U.S. (Chicago 1889); founded to provide needed social programs

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Labor union

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Organization of workers in a trade or profession that can stand up for their rights and interests

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Strike

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Protests when employees refuse to work and demand a change from the employers

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Muckraker

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Journalists exposing corruption for industries, systems and/or individual leaders during the Progressive era

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The Jungle

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Work written by Upton Sinclair that resulted in regulation of the meat-packing industry

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Temperance movement

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Organized effort to outlaw alcohol in the United States

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18th Amendment

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Amendment that made alcohol illegal in the United States

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Prohibition

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Period when alcohol was illegal in the U.S. (1920-1933)

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19th Amendment

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Amendment granting women the right to vote

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Trust-busting

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efforts to promote competition by limiting or eliminating corporate trusts or monopolies

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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First trustbusting law passed by Congress (in 1890): outlawed trusts or monopolies

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Monopoly

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A company that dominates an entire industry or sector of the market, excluding any competition

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Federal Trade Commission Act

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Law of 1914 that banned certain commercial practices to protect the competitive market

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16th Amendment

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Amendment that established income tax, a percent amount of pay owed to fund the government

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17th Amendment

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Amendment that established direct election of senators, which enabled the people to vote for their representatives