Progressive & Industrial/Economic Growth

Push Factor

A condition that drives people from their homeland

Pull Factor

a condition that attracts people to move to a new area

Acculturation

the process of holding on to old traditions while adapting to a new culture.

Immigrant

a person who enters another country in order to settle there.

Muckracker

a journalist who exposed corruption and bad business practices in the late 1800s and early 1900s. 

Monopoly

 a company or group having control of all or nearly all of the business of an industry. 

Progressive

 a reformer in the late 1800s and early 1900s who wanted to improve American life.  

Chinese exclusion act

 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States. 

Nativist

 an American who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born, white Protestants. 

Tenement

a small apartment in a city slum building. 

Strike

 the refusal by workers to do their jobs until their demands are met.

Trade Union

association of workers in a specific trade, or line of work, formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions.

Triangle fire

 fire in 1911 at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City that killed nearly 150 workers.

Sweatshop

workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay. 

Capatilism

 an economic system based on private ownership of property, a market economy, and the goal of making a profit, or income, from the use of one's property.

Scarcity

a shortage, lack, or insufficient supply. 

Moving assembly line

 method of production in which workers stay in one place as products pass along a track or moving belt.

Urbanization

the movement of population from farms to cities.

Federal reserve act

 a 1913 law that set up the Federal Reserve System to regulate the nation's financial sector.

Referendum

a process by which people vote directly on a bill.

Federal Trade Commission(FTC)

a government agency created in 1914 to ensure fair competition.

NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

an organization founded in 1909 to work toward equal rights for African Americans.

Vaudeville

 a type of variety show made popular in the late 1800s that included comedians, song-and-dance routines, and acrobats. 

Yellow Journalism

: a type of news reporting, often biased or untrue, that relies on sensational stories and headlines.

Realist

 a writer or artist who aims to show life as it really is.

Suffrage

The right to vote

Conservation

 the protection of natural resources.

Inflation

a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money.

Vigilante

a self-appointed enforcer of the law.

Transcontinental Railroad

a railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast.

Exploit

make full use of and derive benefit from

Social reform

 an organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society

Trust

group of corporations run by a single board of directors.