Progressive Era Vocabulary

Make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.

• Reform

• Resist

• Ignore

• Deteriorate

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Investigative reporters whose works exposed corruption.

• Muckrakers

• Yellow Journalists

• Propagandists

• Sensationalists

To make clear or intelligible. ____________

• Illustrate

• Complicate

• Obscure

• Confuse

Put forward (an idea or plan) for consideration or discussion by others.

• Propose

• Ignore

• Delay

• Refuse

To make known, disclose, or reveal. ____________

• Expose

• Conceal

• Ignore

• Forget

The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.

• Prohibition

• Abolition

• Suffrage

• Segregation

Higher in station, rank, degree, or importance.

• Superior

• Inferior

• Average

• Ordinary

A fundamental truth that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior.

• Principle

• Opinion

• Theory

• Assumption

The right to vote in political elections.

• Suffrage

• Monarchy

• Census

• Diplomacy

Protection, preservation, and management of natural resources and the environment.

• Conservation

• Pollution

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

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