Vocabulary: The Progressive Era Use your textbook or the Internet to define each term. A brief description  identifying one or two important details will do. Answers are available. 1) Progressivism: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2) Populism:  ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3) Mugwumps: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4) Henry George: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5) Edward Bellamy: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 6) Jacob Riis: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 7) Muckrakers: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8) Ida Tarbell: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 9) Lincoln Steffens:  ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 10) The Jungle: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 11) Robert "Battling Bob" La Follette ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 12) Direct Primary: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 13) Referendum: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 14) Initiative:  ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 15) Recall: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 16) Secret Ballot: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 17) Seventeenth Amendment: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 18) National Woman Suffrage Association:  ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________   19) Booker T. Washington: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 20) William E. B. Du Bois: 21) NAACP: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 22) United Mine Workers: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 23) Hepburn Act: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 24) Pure Food & Drug Act: ___________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 25) Newlands Act: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 26) Bull Moose Party: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________   27) Federal Reserve Act: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 28) Clayton Anti-trust Act: ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Check your answers

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