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| What were some of the negative effects on industrialization? |
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-Child labor
-Low wages, long hours
-unsafe working conditions
-Urbanization |
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| How did the reforms of the Progressive Movement change the United States? |
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-Improved safety conditions
-Reduced work hours
-Place restrictions on child labor |
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| How did workers respond to the negative effects of industrialization? |
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-Formation of unions-Growth of American Federation of Labor
-Strikes: aftermath of homestead Strike |
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| Change in US constitution that outlawed the making, buying, and selling of alcohol |
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| Change in the US constitution that guaranteed the right to vote to women in all states |
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| An organization of workers that focused on helping workers gain higher wages and better working conditions |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| Children work like adults in factories on other kinds of employment |
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| Steel workers labor dispute in 1893 that led to workers not having union support for almost 40 years |
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| Groups of workers who bargain together for better pay or working conditions |
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| Groups of workers who bargain together for better pay or working conditions |
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| Followers of the movement that called for reforms to social problems such as slums |
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| Forbidding by law the making of selling of alcholic beverages |
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| to make something better by changing it |
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| To limit or not allow something |
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| To make or achieve a balance or bargain by refusing to work. |
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| Organizations of wage earners formed to gain advantages in getting what they want from their employers |
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| Money earned, pay for a job |
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| Corporations conspired to keep ____ high and ____ |
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| Jane Addams founded ________ in Chicago to provide immigrants with English lessons, employment advice and child car |
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| Progressivism called for _____ of both political and economic problems |
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| Some ___________ worried that progressive reformers would destroy their ethnic cultures by educating their children. |
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| Journalists who wrote about the waste and greed in modern America were called __________ |
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| Political bosses were corrupt _________ who paid for votes with favors or money to their friends |
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| Muckrakers like _____________ attacked corporate trusts to lower prices and protect _____________ |
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| Meatpacking was criticized by ____________ in his book, The Jungle. |
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| Workers __________ gives workers money if they are injured while working. |
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| Name both laws passed that helped protect Americans from bad food or medicine. |
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| Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act |
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| President __________ was known as the trust-buster even though William Howard______ actually broke up more trusts during his pesidency. |
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| President Woodrow Wilson created a national bank called the ____________ to oversee all the nation's bans |
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| Name all groups that suffered discrimination and prejudice in the early 1900's |
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| African Americans, women, immigrants, socialists, wobblies |
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| What event called attention away from the reform efforts of the Progressive Era? |
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