Progressive Era Vocabulary

This term refers to journalist who informed the public about problems in American society.

• Segregation

• Muckraker

• Primary

• Corruption

Which term means candidates are nominated by the direct vote of the people?

• Suffrage

• Bootlegger

• Strike

• Direct Primary

Which term means the protection of natural resources.

• Muckraker

• Conservation

• Regulation

• Food and Drug Act

The right to vote.

• Prohibition

• Recall

• Direct Primary

• Suffrage

Grants women the right to vote

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

a person who donates lots of money to good causes

• Muckraker

• Philanthropist

• Temperance

• Suffrage

This was established in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest Civil Rights organization

• NAACP

• Conservation

• Direct Primary

• Negotiation

To hang someone for an alleged offense without a legal trial

• Hunger Strike

• Suffrage

• Philanthropy

• Lynching

Materials such as minerals, forests, water, and land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain

• WEB DuBois

• Conservation

• Natural Resource

• Alice Paul

to protect something of environmental or cultural importance from harm or destruction

• Conserve

• Temperance

• Hatchet

• Prohibition