Journalism
Newspaper
Where people wrote/published news or information
Tenements
Houses that people would live in. They had bad conditions like one toilet, smelly.
Suffrage
The right to vote (they can vote)
Muckraker
People who write about bad stuff happening in business (working conditions, etc).
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
A factory caught on fire. It was a big fire. Lot of people died.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She was a member of the Women’s Right Movement. She was a mother of seven. She said that all men and women were equal. Stanton organized the first women’s rights convention.
Name 1 muckraker
Ida B Wells, Upton Sinclair
Sweatshop
It’s a place where people work. They have bad working conditions.
Abolitionist
A movement that was focused on ending slavery.
Tried to end slavery.
Ida B Wells
She was a journalist. She was part of the Civil Rights Movement. She was a muckraker.
Strike
Strikes are when workers stop going to work to get something. Workers might go on strike because they don’t get paid enough or they are working too many hours.
Women's Rights
Women’s rights: fight to vote, equality - same things that men have
Upton Sinclair
Novelist/ writer. Similar to muckraker. Wrote "The Jungle"
Union
A union is a group of people that all have the same job and they protect workers.
Seneca Falls Convention
It was the first women’s rights convention/meeting.
A convention is a meeting.