Progressive Era Vocab

A group of people who worked to reform society and free the government from corruption

• Progressives

• Populists

• Temperances

• Suffragists

Voluntarily choosing not to drink alcohol

• Progressive

• Prohibition

• Temperance

• Suffrage

A national ban on the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol

• Conservation

• Prohibition

• Temperance

• Suffrage

A journalist who exposed the corruption of businesses and leaders

• Muckraker

• Suffragette

• Populist

• Progressive

A often corrupt political group that has immense influence on government and controls the passing of laws

• Political Machine

• Suffragists

• Conservationists

• Muckrakers

A movement to protect natural resources

• Muckraker

• Recall

• Conservation

• Prohibition

the right to vote

• conservation

• Recall

• suffrage

• Prohibition

Voters have the ability to remove public officials from office before the next election

• conservation

• recall

• suffrage

• referendum

Through a petition, people can demand that a law passed by the legislature be “referred” to voters for their approval or rejection

• recall

• referendum

• conservation

• political machine

A place that cared for and provided education to the poor, the unemployed, and immigrants

• settlement house

• tenement

• political machine

• conservation