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Progressive Reform
Progressives
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| person who buys goods or services | consumer |
| agreement not to buy goods from a company | boycott |
| progressive writers who wrote about shameful conditions | muckraker |
| a large number of people moving from a rural area to the city | urbanization |
| refusing to work due to unfair working conditions | strike |
| a company that has control over an entire industry | monopoly |
| a business owned by investors | corporation |
| reformers who worked to stop unfair practices and improve the way the government worked. | progressives |
| a group of companies that join together to form a larger company with the power to drive out competition in an industry | trusts |
| an economic system in which people are free to start their own business or do whatever work they want | free enterprise |
| a person who starts his/her own business | entrepreneur |
| the protecting and saving of the environment | conservation |