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Progressive Movement
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8th Grade
03/31/2011

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Term
a group of corporations run by a single board of directors that was formed to reduce competition
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trust
Term
a journalist who investigated the trusts and exposed unfair business practices
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muckraker
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a muckraker who wrote about Standard Oil
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Ida Tarbell
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a crowded urban apartment building with poor conditions where many poor and unskilled immigrants lived
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tenement
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a group of people who formed a political party to give farmers and common workers a greater voice in the government
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Populists
Term
this amendment made it illegal to buy, sell or manufacture alcohol and was known as the "prohibition amendment"
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18th
Term
this amendment made it illegal to restrict the right to vote based on gender, thus giving women the right to vote
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19th
Term
progressives
Definition
people who work for social. political and economic reform
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This law made it illegal for a company or group of companies to form a trust and have a monopoly on an entire industry.
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
Term
Who wrote about the horrible conditions of the tenements?
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Jacob Riis
Term
a NC governor who improved roads, education and services for the mentally ill
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Cameron Morrison
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a member of the Farmer's Alliance who published "Progressive Farmer".
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Leonidas Polk
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A NC governor who focused on education and was known as the "Education Governor"
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Charles B. Aycock
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a community center set up to teach practical skills such as reading and cooking to the urban(mostly immigrant)poor.
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settlement house
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founded a well known settlement house in Chicago called Hull House
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Jane Addams
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an organization whose goals were to increase crop prices,decrease cost of transportation & supplies and give farmers a stronger voice in government
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The Farmer's Alliance
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this amendment repealed the prohibition amendment.
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