1. Vocabulary Practice The next bunch of slides are practice vocabulary. Quiz yourself!

2. 18thAmendment

3. 1919- Made the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages illegal.

4. TemperanceMovement

5. People who organized in order to create a ban on alcohol. -Carry Nation -Francis Willard -Women’s Christian Temperance Union

6. 19thAmendment

7. 1920- Guaranteed the right to vote regardless of sex (women can vote)

8. Jane Addams

9. Founder of Hull House in Chicago, a settlement house for the poor.

10. Reform

11. To change or improve

12. Progressives

13. Nickname for people who worked for change during the Progressive Movement

14. Urbanization

15. The movement of people from rural areas (like the country) to cities

16. Settlement House

17. Building in a poor or ethnic neighborhood that offered services, education, and activities.

18. Hull House

19. Settlement House in Chicago opened by Jane Addams

20. Civil Service Reform

21. Changed in gov’t hiring process that focused on merit rather than connections.

22. Muckraker

23. Journalists who tried to improve society through their investigative reporting and photography. Exposed health conditions, corruption in government, and social problems.

24. Conservation

25. The preservation of natural resources

26. The Jungle

27. Book by Upton Sinclair which exposed the abuses of the meat packing industry

28. MeatInspectionAct

29. 1906 Law passed as a result of Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle. Authorized the inspection of all meat products shipped in interstate commerce (from state to state)

30. NAACP

31. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

32. ProgressiveMovement

33. Time of reform, generally centered in urban areas.

34. Prohibition

35. The ban on alcoholic beverages in the U.S. after the 18th Amendment

36. Pure Food and Drug Act

37. 1906 Law- Forbidding the manufacture and sale of dishonestly labeled product: All products must have ingredients listed

38. Sherman Antitrust Act

39. 1890 Law – Prohibited monopolies

40. Interstate Commerce Act

41. Law that monitored railroads in order to restrict unfair business practices

42. Social Activist

43. Individuals who protest and defend individual rights. Ex. Jane Addams

44. Square Deal

45. President Theodore Roosevelt’s idea that all people should have an opportunity to succeed in the U.S.

46. Tenement

47. Overcrowded apartment building in a city slum

48. Suffrage

49. The right to vote

50. Political Bosses