Progressive Era Vocabulary

Progressive

• A political ideology movement foward

• A type of insurance
• A music genre
• A medical condition

Muckraker

• A type of tool used for gardening
• A type of bird species
• A journalist who investigates and publishes truthful reports to perform an auditing or watchdog function
• A type of ancient weapon

Transcontinental Railroad

• A type of car
• A famous ship
• A network of railroad track that crosses a continental land mass
• A type of airplane

Andrew Carnegie

• An American industrialist

  • Steel Industry

• A British Prime Minister
• A French painter
• An Italian composer

Telegraph

• A type of telephone
• A type of television
• A type of communication device that sends messages over long distances
• A type of computer

Telephone

• A device used for communication created by Alexander Graham Bell

• A type of food
• A kind of animal
• A brand of car

Thomas Edison

• Invented the telephone
• Discovered gravity
• Invented the light bulb
• Discovered electricity

John D. Rockefeller

• An American industrialist- Standard Oil Company

• A British novelist
• A French painter
• A German physicist

Monopoly

• the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

• A type of currency
• A type of car
• A type of food

Immigrant

• A person who has moved to another country
• A person who travels frequently
• A person who studies abroad
• A person who works in multiple countries