MAAP Progressive Movement Vocab

A social and economic change from an agricultural society to a mechanized society

• Industrialization

• Urbanization

• Mechanization

• Monopolization

A market/ company that controls all goods and services, one seller.

• Monopoly/

  Trust

• Industry

• stock market

• capitalism

Organization to vote immigrants and maintain a laissez faire government.

•  Political Machine

• Robber Baron

• Entrepreneur

• Muckraker

 

An industrialist or businessman who dominated US industries, usually by practicing unfair tactics

• Robber Baron

• Muckraker

• Political Machine Boss

• Industrialist

cities grow and population increases

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Ruralification

• Industrialization

Author of The Jungle, describing the life in of workers in the factory system. Best known for exposing the meatpacking industry.

• Upton Sinclair

• John Muir

• Lincoln Steffens

• Ida Tarbell

Naturalist, called for preservation of the wilderness. Instrumental in saving Yosemite Valley. Conservative movement

• John Muir

• Jacob Riis

• Lincoln Steffens

• Ida Tarbell

outlawed monopolies

• Anti-Trust Act

• Competition Law

• Industrial Law

• Anti-Competition Law

Provided housing, education, and jobs to immigrants. Led by Jane Addams/Hull House.

• Settlement House Movement

• Bilingual Education Movement

• Temperance Movement

• Women's Rights Movement

An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer for better pay and working conditions

• Labor Union

• Strike

• Corporation

• Governmental Body