Progressive Era Vocabulary

Another name to describe the time period between 1890-1920 where America was rapidly progressing in industrial production as well as in social and political reforms.

• Progressive Era

• Assembly line

• Industrial Revolution

• Monopoly

The complete control of an industry by one person or company.

• Progressive Era

• Assembly line

• Industrial Revolution

• Monopoly

An arrangement of workers, machines, and equipment in which the product passed from operation to operation until completed. Invented by Henry Ford.

• Progressive Era

• Assembly line

• Industrial Revolution

• Monopoly

A time of great and rapid changes, when people switched from making goods by hand to manufacturing goods with power-driven machines.

• Progressive Era

• Assembly line

• Industrial Revolution

• Monopoly

A community center established to help immigrants get familiarized with American culture.

• urbanization

• Settlement house

• Muckraker

• Tenement

The rapid growth of cities flooded by immigrants and people moving from the rural communities.

• urbanization

• Settlement house

• Muckraker

• Tenement

An investigative reporter who published allegations of business and government leaders as corrupt.

• urbanization

• Settlement house

• Muckraker

• Tenement

An apartment house, often in cities, in which living conditions are deplorable.

• urbanization

• Settlement house

• Muckraker

• Tenement

People who moved to America (primarily in the cities) from another country in search for jobs and democratic ideals.

• Immigrants

• Muckraker

• Nativism

• Migrant Farm Workers

A company of several owners (trustees) that collectively purchase their competition so that they create one large company.

• Labor Union

• Nativism

• Trust

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act