Progressive Era Vocab

A few large companies that control prices for an entire industry.

• Oligopoly

• Corporation

• Partnership

• Merger

Investigative reporters who exposed corruption.

• Streetsweeper

• Muckraker

• Sludgesifter

• Cleaner

The right of voters to place an issue on the ballot in a state election

• Referendum

• Recall

• Initiative

• Primary

The right of voters to accept or reject laws

• Initiative

• Referendum

• Recall

• Primary

The right of voters to remove incompetent elected officials from office

• Primary

• Referendum

• Initiative

• Recall

A person who fought for women's suffrage, or women’s right to vote

• Women

• Suffragist

• Prohibition

• Children

Laws that banned making or selling alcohol

• Suffrage

• The Clean Glass Act

• Mercantilism

• Prohibition

A government official who investigates and combats business alliances formed to control competition and prices.

• Arbitrator

• Square Deal

• Trustbuster

• New Deal

The process of resolving disputes between people or groups by agreeing to accept the decision of a neutral party

• Argument

• Counseling

• Arbitration

• Debate

Theodore Roosevelt’s promised program of fair and equal treatment for all

• Triangle Trade

• Circular Circumstance

• Oval Office

• Square Deal