progressive era
Time of advancement
The Progressive Era was a period of American social and political reform spanning roughly 1890–1920.
Reformers targeted corruption, monopolies, and poor working conditions, producing legislation on food safety, child labor, and women's suffrage.
The term appears in historical discussions: Progressive Era reforms shaped modern regulatory agencies.
Sometimes capitalized, sometimes not.
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- social reformOrganized push for societal betterment
- political reformAltering governmental structures or practices
- muckrakerJournalist exposing corruption
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
women's vote · temperance · trust-busting · Roosevelt · square deal · big stick · Wilson · industrialization · labor · unions · settlement houses · prohibition · conservation · corruption · Taft · income tax · journalism · Upton Sinclair
- New York historyEllis Island, Tammany Hall, Erie Canal, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park
- reform movementsabolitionism, muckraking, labor reform, child labor reform, prison reform
- Social Reformabolitionism, prohibition, anti-slavery, moral reform, reform movement
- Economic ErasGreat Depression, Industrial Revolution, Gilded Age, Roaring Twenties, Great Recession
- AmericanaAmerican flag, Fourth of July, bald eagle, Thanksgiving, apple pie
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
progressive eraGilded Age
Late 1800s American prosperity
Roaring Twenties · normalcy · return to normalcy · Jazz Age · Reconstruction
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