Urbanization - People moving to cities., Tenement - Overcrowded dwellings in which poor, working-class families lived., Labor Unions - A group made up of workers, formed to protect their rights., Wealth Inequality - The widening difference in wealth between the ultra-wealthy and the poorest in a country., Media/Muckrakers - People who exposed problems in society through newspaper articles, pictures, and books., Skyscraper - Very tall buildings with an internal steel frame that supported their weight., Middle Class - Fastest growing social class in the industrial era due to new opportunities , Working Class - largest social class; lived in poverty , Germ Theory - Led to improvements in sanitation , unskilled - Worker’s wages during industrialization were often so low because most labor was…, factory  - During the industrial era, working class women spent their days in the …., universal male suffrage - Because they believed laws would not change until all working class men gained the right to vote, unions often pushed for …., agricultural revolution - This era preceded (came before) the industrial revolution. It brought about new technologies that both drove workers off farms and led to changes in the production of food that led to population growth and an increased the demand for goods., capitalism - an economic idea that opposes government intervention in the economy., socialists - This group believes in the peaceful redistribution of wealth. Their ultimate goal is political and economic equality for all., communism  - his group is more extreme. They believe that the redistribution of wealth must be violent and that the drive should be to encourage worker’s revolutions around the world. They appeal most strongly to the extremely poor., equality  - This is the ultimate goal of both socialism and communism.,

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