Progressive Era Vocabulary PLUS

A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city is called a

• tenement

• settlement house

• muchraker

• strike

An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community is called a

• tenement

• settlement house

• strike

• muckraker

A person or small group with authority that is popular enough to have a strong influence over the government in a city, county, or state.

• settlement house

• strike

• labor union

• political machine

An association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights.

• settlement house

• political machine

• labor union

• monopoly

A refusal to work organized by a group of employees as a form of protest

• muchraker

• 19th Amendment

• strike

• tenement

Reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt were called

• tenements.

• strikes.

• muckrakers.

• labor unions.

The right to vote is called

• tenement.

• strike.

• suffrage.

• the 18th Amendment.

Not drinking alcohol is called

• suffrage.

• temperance.

• muckraking.

• nativism.

Protecting the interests native-born people over immigrants is called

• temperance.

• suffrage.

• nativism.

• striking.

When one business dominates an entire industry is called

• suffrage.

• nativism.

• a monopoly.

• a labor union.