Progressive Era Vocabulary

A place where workers would work long hours at low wages in hazardous environments.

• Slum

• Sweatshop

• Settlement House

• Prohibition

A political party who represented farmers and their interests. They wanted to nationalize railroads.

• The Populist Party

• Reform

• Progressives

• Slum

The policy that believed that the government should not interfere with the nation’s economy.

• The Square Deal

• Imperialism

• Laissez-Faire:

• Prohibition

A fair bargain promised by President Theodore Roosevelt. He wanted everyone to be treated equally.

• The Square Deal

• Imperialism

• Laissez-Faire:

• Prohibition

Journalism that is based upon overstatement and extreme exaggeration.

• Yellow Journalism

• Muckraking

• Slum

• Isolationism

A person who exposes real or alleged corruption, scandal, or something else along these lines, especially in politics.

• Suffragist

• Muckraker

• President

• Henry Ford

A nationwide constitutional ban in the United States on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

• Imperialism

• Isolationism

• Prohibition

• The Square Deal

A person who advocates that the right to vote be granted to more people, especially to women.

• Muckraker

• President

• Progressive

• Suffragist

A policy where one nation uses its power and influence to have economic and political control over a weaker nation.

• The Progressive Era

• Imperialism

• Isolationism

• Prohibition

A policy of staying apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

• Imperialism

• Isolationism

• The Square Deal

• The Populist Party