Progressive Era Review

journalists who exposed the corruption, scandal, and filth of society

• progressives

• muckrakers

• initiatives

• socialism

protection of nature and its resources

• conservation

• assimilation

• progressivism

• socialism

a vote to remove an official before the end of his or her term

• political machines

• worker compensation laws

• compulsory laws

• recall

procedure permitting voters to approve or reject a law

• intiative

• referendum

• recall

• voter fraud

powerful organizations that used methods to get their candidate elected to public office

• progressives

• political machines

• 17th Amendment

• suffragists

economic system where private businesses run production and free competition reigns

• capitalism

• 18th Amendment

• corruption

• progressivism

laws that keep children in school in order to limit child labor

• worker compensation laws

• 8 hour work days

• 19th Amendment

• compulsory laws

the right to vote

• suffrage

• socialism

• labor union

• 16th Amendment

process in which immigrant families adopt American beliefs and culture

• temperance

• assimiliation

• voter fraud

• tammany hall

the ban of selling or making alcohol

• 16th Amendment

• recall

• pure food and drug act

• prohibition