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Having total control of an industry and being the only/main producer of your product is called a what?

Who was the founder of Standard Oil Company?

He took pictures to expose the poor living and working conditions of immigrants. Published the book "How the Other Half Lives“

A union organized to bring together unskilled laborers so that they could abolish the capitalist system

Who was the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons, child care and other services to help immigrants?

This labor union pressed for the eight-hour work day, higher wages

What vocabulary word means the right to vote?

This 1890 law by the Congress was the first federal law to limit the power of monopolies.

Child labor was fairly common during the Industrial Revolution.

Writers of the Progressive Era who exposed abuses in government and industry were called what?

This person was a muckraker who wrote "The Jungle," which exposed problems in the US meat packing industry.

Event that killed 146 girls workers trapped in a New York City building. This led to new safety standard laws.

Union of skilled laborers formed by Samuel Gompers

This amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

This person exposed the abuses of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company in the book "The History of the Standard Oil Company”

1906 law that stopped the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling.

This amendment gave women the right to vote.

An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members