Progressive era
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Proper Noun
- 1 A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. historical
"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."
Example
More examples"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."