Progressive Era Vocabulary Quiz

1. Reform: money that is made in a business, after expenses (materials, labor, etc.)

• True
• False

2. Robber Barons: a wealthy person who tries to get land, businesses, or more money in a way that is dishonest or wrong

• True
• False

3. Revolution: a sudden, extreme, or complete change in the way people live, work, etc.

• True
• False

4. Push factors: factors that force people to leave a place (such as war, natural disaster, low pay, bad jobs)

• True
• False

5. Definition: to come to a country to live there

• progressive
• urbanization
• capitalism
• immigration

6. Definition: moving forward; a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform

• progressive
• profit
• Gilded Age
• immigration

7. Definition: to improve someone or something by removing or correcting faults, problems, etc.

• progressive
• monopoly
• reform
• revolution

8. Definition: a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to live there

• Gilded Age
• immigrant
• monopoly
• revolution

9. Definition: A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller.

• immigrant
• profit
• monopoly
• industry

10. Definition: the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas

• industrialization
• pull factors
• urbanization
• industry