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America's Progressive Era: Reforms and Advocates

Explore key events, significant people, and impactful reforms of the Progressive Era in America. Discover the vocabulary associated with this transformative period in U.S. history.

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America's Progressive Era: Reforms and Advocates

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  1. Reconstruction Trivia Vocabulary, Key Events, and Important People Review

  2. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Crusading journalist who uncovered the problems in American society • Muckraker

  3. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • System that includes most government jobs (except elected positions, judicial positions, and military positions) • Civil Service

  4. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Process by which citizens vote directly on a bill (law) • Referendum

  5. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Protection of natural resources • Conservation

  6. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Process that allows voters to put a bill before state legislature • (idea to start a law) • Initiative

  7. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Person who worked to destroy monopolies and trusts • Trustbuster

  8. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol • (Prohibit = to ban) • Prohibition

  9. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Natural area protected and managed by the federal government • National Park

  10. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Prejudice against Jews • Anti-Semitism

  11. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Election in which voters, rather than party leaders, choose their party’s candidate for an election • (Primary = first; first election) • Primary

  12. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • When a mob illegally seizes and executes someone • Lynching

  13. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Tax on earning that charges different rates for different income levels • Graduated Income Tax

  14. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Person who worked for women’s right to vote • Suffragist

  15. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • Process by which voters can remove an elected official from office • (Recall = to take a broken product away) • Recall

  16. The following is the definition of what vocabulary word? • School sponsored by a church • Parochial School

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