Meanings
proper nounthe Progressive Era
- historicalA period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.
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.
2012, William A. Link, Susannah J. Link, editors, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Documentary Reader, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 8
Translations
Polish era postępowa
- era postępowaTranslations
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