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WorksheetsIndustrial Revolution Vocab
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A flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres.
Cloth
Fabric
Textile
Yarn
First legislation enacted by the United States Congress (1890) to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition.
Civil Rights Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
18th Amendment
Plessy V. Ferguson
A change to the United States Constitution establishing the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states.
17th Amendment
Implementation
18th Amendment
Monopoly
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices.
Filthy Rich
Suffragette
Immigrant
Robber Baron
The presence of a great number of very different people in a very limited space - most of them are strangers to each other.
Rural life
Salt life
Urban life
Country life
The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
Free Trade
Monopoly
Risk
Democracy
A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.
Deplete
Recession
Convert
Strike
The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.
Acceleration
Anticipation
Prohibition
Recession
(of a group, person, or idea) favoring or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.
Muckraker
Progressive Party
Scalliwag
Republican
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
The Bull Moose Party
19th Amendment
18th Amendment
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
A long and severe recession in an economy or market.
Free Market System
Industry
Trust
Depression
A party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.
Progressive Party
Political Machine
Prohibition
Robber Baron
A woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest.
Carpetbagger
Muckraker
Robber Baron
Suffragettes
A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.
Horizontal Integration
Assembly Line
Industry
Vertical Intergration
Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.
Corruption
Graft
Tammany Hall
Monopoly
Prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages.
20th Amendment
Civil Rights act of 1866
A Contract
18th Amendment
The employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful.
Indentured Servant
Immigrant
Child Labor
Temperance
A large grouping of business interests with significant market power, which may be embodied as a corporation or as a group of corporations that cooperate with one another in various ways.
Industry
Trust
Monopoly
Political Machine
An American statesman, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Rutherford B. Hayes
Reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
Carpet baggers
Muckrakers
Suffragists
Robberbarons
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment.
18th Amendment
Prohibition
16th Amendment
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
Urban Sprawl
Sky Scrapper
Industrialization
Tenement
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
Robber Baron
Immigrant
Suffragist
Muckraker
An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
Settlement House
Mansion
Sky scrapper
Tenement
A group of manufacturers or businesses that produce a particular kind of goods or services.
Innovation
Industry
Agriculture
Factory
