progressive era
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Inflected Forms
the Progressive Era (canonical)