A | B |
Abraham Lincoln | not a Progressive president |
muckraker | journalists who wrote negatively about the Industrial Revolution |
tenements | small, crowded, multi-family apartments with shared restrooms, garbage and sewage build up in streets, poorly maintained and dangerous, and caused diseases. |
labor unions | organizaitons of workers joining together to get better working conditions |
Jane Addams | founded Hull House in Chicago to offer education, child care, and social activities to the poor |
monopolist | a company or individual who controls the market on a particular product or service |
Andrew Carnegie | had a monopoly with Standard Oil |
Jacob Riis | a muckraker who wrote, "How the Other Half Live" about tenement life. |