Vocab
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors having control of the market
What is a Trust?
Suffragists associated with the National Women's Party
Who was Alice Paul?
What was a positive effect of the women's suffrage movement?
More educational opportunities for women
Brought about workplace reforms such as child labor laws, shorter work days, regulations on safety in the workplace
What was the Progressive Movement?
A journalist who uncovers abuse and corruption in a society
What is a muckraker?
An organization of all labor unions in the U.S.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
American social reformer and women's rights activist
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
How did the use of machinery on American farms during the late 19th century impact the economy?
mechanization of agriculture greatly increased farm productivity and reduced labor needs
Which were common places for children get hired in the Industrial Revolution?
Factories, cotton mills, and mines
The movement to ban the use of alcohol
What was the temperance movement?
Gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
Founder and President of the American Federation of Labor
Who was Samuel Gompers?
In Chicago, Pullman cut wages but refused to lower rent. The American Railway Union refused to use Pullman cars. Courts ordered strikers to work.
What is the Pullman Strike?
True or False: "Women's Suffrage" means giving women the right to vote
What is True?
An organized work stoppage
What is a strike?
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
What is the 18th Amendment?
What were some of the things women did to fight for their right to vote?
They protested, went on hunger strikes, gave speeches and chained themselves to gates, etc.
Steelworker strike near Pittsburgh against the Carnegie Steel Company.
What is the Homestead Strike of 1892?
Name several things that led to Industrial growth and success
Access to natural resources, growing population, improved transportation and new inventions
The process of developing machine production of goods
What is Industrialization?
Huge companies that control all or the majority of a certain industry (steel, oil, railroads) from buying up competition or driving them out of business.
What is a Monopoly?
Name the four major Industries and the person associated with each.
Shipping/Railroads - Vanderbilt
Banking - Morgan
Oil - Rockefeller
Steel - Carnegie
Name several negative effects of industrialization
Low pay, long hours, unsafe working conditions, child labor, pollution, rise of monopolies
How did industrial development affect cities?
Increased labor needs