Vocabulary
When alcohol was banned
Prohibition
cut workers wages by 25%, caused railroad strike
George Pullman
created for workers' interest
Labor Unions
What did women want?
Suffrage
Could not make, transport, or sell liquor
18th Amendment
farmers' organization
Granger Movement
Led Socialist Movement
Karl Marx
to walk off the job
strike
Who led the temperance movement?
Margaret Sanger
sold alcohol illegally
Bootleggers
where employees lived
company towns
led American Railway Union with strikes
Eugene V. Debs
replaced striking workers
strikebreakers
Led the National Child Labor Committee
Florence Kelley
parties with illegal alcohol
speakeasies
where workers bought goods
company store
organization that fights for blacks' civil rights
NAACP
led skilled workers with the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Created daycare centers to educate black children
Ida B. Wells
Famous Chicago Gang Leader
Al Capone
public control of income and property
socialism
Tennessee, 36th state to ratify 19th Amend. known as
Perfect 36
offered a five-day, 40-hours work week
Fair Labors Standards Act 1938
Gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
repealed the 18th Amendment
21st Amendment