Progressive Era

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the Progressive Era

  1. (historical) A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.
    • 2012, William A. Link, Susannah J. Link, editors, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Documentary Reader[1], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 8:
      The Progressive Era brought a wholesale restructuring of social and political institutions, largely in response to the economic and social transformations of the post‐Reconstruction era, and reform became a driving force during the early twentieth century.

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