Progressive Movement Vocabulary

monopoly

• Controls so many of the resources that no other business can enter the market

• People who work to create goods and services

• When different industries rely upon each other to build a product

• The act of giving money to worthy causes

labor force

• Person who purchases the resources, builds the factory to create the product, and pays the labor force

• An individual who dominates a business area and controls prices and wages

• People who work to create goods and services

• Controls so many of the resources that no other business can enter the market

interdependence

• The act of giving money to worthy causes

• When different industries rely upon each other to build a product

• Controls so many of the resources that no other business can enter the market

• Person who purchases the resources, builds the factory to create the product, and pays the labor force

philanthropy

• An individual who dominates a business area and controls prices and wages

• People who work to create goods and services

• Controls so many of the resources that no other business can enter the market

• The act of giving money to worthy causes

proprietor

• Person who purchases the resources, builds the factory to create the product, and pays the labor force

• Controls so many of the resources that no other business can enter the market

• An individual who dominates a business area and controls prices and wages

• When different industries rely upon each other to build a product

mogul

• People who work to create goods and services

• Person who purchases the resources, builds the factory to create the product, and pays the labor force

• An individual who dominates a business area and controls prices and wages

• The act of giving money to worthy causes

industrialization

• people left farming jobs to work in factories

• groups of workers who join together for better pay and safer conditions

• women fought for voting rights

• change or addition to a law

immigration

• people leave their home country to move to a new country

• people left farming jobs to go to factory jobs

• apartment buildings in poor areas

• people moved to cities from rural areas

suffrage

• the right to vote

• the right to own land

• the right to work in factories

• the right to move to a new country

urbanization

• fighting for the right to vote

• people moved from farming jobs to factory jobs

• people moving from country areas to citites

• change or addition to a law