| A | B |
| Progressive Era | began in the late 1890s and ended with the end of World War I |
| New inventions that helped spread ideas and speed changes | telephone, phonograph, electric light, automobile, movies |
| Social issues | child labor laws, womens suffrage (vote), temperance movement (liquor), fair treatment of workers |
| 1887 | Law passed in Alabama to limit hours worked by children |
| Temperance Movement | wanted laws against selling alcohol-prohibition |
| 18th amendment to the constitution | passed in 1918 - prohibition |
| Bootlegging | illegal production and sell of alcohol |
| Alabama leaders for women's suffrage | Priscilla Holmes Drake, Mary Winslow Partridge, and Patti Ruffner Jacobs |
| 1920 | Women allowed to vote for the first time |
| Convict leasing reform | Gov. Bibb Graves worked to stop this, from then on prisoners worked on state owned properties |