Progressive Era

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, 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.

• Gilded Age