Progressive Era Reforms

People who shared terrible real life stories of suffering to draw attention to the problems they saw and to bring change.

• Dirtslinger

• Muckraker

• Mudbaker

What are groups of workers who joined together to fight for better working conditions?

• Worker's compensation

• Strike

• Labor union

Check each reason for strikes.

• Low wages

• Great working conditions

• Long hours

• No benefits

____________ are changes for the better.

• Improvements

• Upgrades

• Reforms

What reforms were achieved due to labor unions?

• longer workdays

• benefits

• health insurance

• safety regulations

The complete control of an industry by one person or company.

• Progressive Era

• Assembly line

• Industrial Revolution

• Monopoly

A community center established to help immigrants get familiarized with American culture.

• urbanization

• Settlement house

• Muckraker

• Tenement

A law passed in 1890 that prohibited businesses to become monopolies and therefore encourage competition.

• Compromise of 1877

• Child Labor Act

• Trust

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Suffrage is -

• the right to vote

• the right to suffer

• the right to live

• the right to speak

Which of the following does NOT describe early factory conditions?

• unsafe conditions

• low pay

• safe conditions

• high pay