| A | B |
|---|
| Progressive Movement | a group of people asking for reforms |
| reforms | changes for the better |
| reformer | a person who wanted to change factories, business, and government |
| strike | to stop working so the bosses will listen |
| labor unions | groups of people who work for reforms |
| examples of reforms | safer factories, minimum wage, women voting, merit system |
| AFL (American Federation of Labor) | leading labor union that tried to change laws |
| Theodore Roosevelt | president who made laws to control business |
| Square Deal | Rooselvelt's program to break up monopolies |
| Robert La Follette | Wisconsin govenor who enforced a merit system for hiring workers |
| merit system | hiring people on qualifications, not as favors to friends |
| secret ballot | a voting reform where elections became more honest |
| Susan B. Anthony | suffragette who worked for women to vote |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Temperance movement | group of people who wanted to stop the use of alchohol |
| 18th Amendment | law that stoped the use and sale of alchohol |
| 19th Amendment | the law that allowed all women in the U.S. the right to vote |
| Homestead Strike | violent fight between steelworkers and guards at the Carnegie Steel Plant |
| Andrew Carnegie | captain of the steel industry who opposed the workers in the Homestead Strike |
| Suffrage Movement | organized effort to get women the right to vote and to equal education |
| negative effects of industrialization | child labor, low wages, long hours, unsafe factories |
