Progressive - to make something better - to improve , transcontinental railroad - allows people to travel the country quickly , strike  - when workers stop working to protest bad pay & working conditions , monopoly - when only one company sells a product , robber baron - someone who makes money with ruthless business practices , union - a group of workers who want to improve their conditions , tenement - a style of housing that is cheap and in bad condition, muckraker  - someone who wants to expose and show the problems of life in the US in the 1800s, Jane Addams - a woman who wanted to improve the life of immigrants , Upton Sinclair - He wrote the Jungle which showed the problems of the meat-packing industry , Ida Tarbell - She showed the problems of Standard Oil , Chinese Exclusion Act - This stopped Chinese immigration to the United States , Nativism - the belief that people in the United States wanted to protect people born in the United States ,

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