Progressive Era (1) Vocab

Period of time in which people attempted to fix the economic and social problems due to industrialization, immigration, and urbanization

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Middle Age

• progressive

to improve or change

• rebuild

• renegotiate

• reform

• readjust

dishonest, illegal, or fraudulent activity

• corruption

• espionage

• sabotage

• laundering

a person who wants to improve society

• legislator

• idealist

• reformer

• captain

a forward-thinking person who wanted to improve society

• optimist

• progressive

• futurist

• time traveler

term that applies to the extreme wealth of the late 1800s; glittering on the surface while corrupt underneath

• Progressive Era

• Golden Age

• Jazz Age

• Gilded Age

Match the term to its definition.

• a company that controls all or nearly all the business of an industry

• tenement

• place where people work for long hours, for low pay, in poor working conditions

• sweatshop

• very poor, crowded section of a city

• slum

• a run-down, crowded apartment often located in the center of the city

• monopoly

• an organization of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect worker's rights

• labor union

widespread occurrence of an infectious disease

• outbreak

• pandemic

• epidemic

• ailment

required by law

• legal

• status quo

• imminent

• mandatory

investigative reporter who exposed political and economic corruption

• detective

• informant

• paralegal

• muckraker