"The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century," Vocabulary from Chapter 9

This list focuses on the progressive era (Unit 3, Chapter 9).

Here are links to all the chapters in Unit 3, Modern America Emerges: Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11

Here are links to all the units of the California edition of the textbook published by McDougal Littell: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7
35 words 71 learners

Learn words with Flashcards and other activities

Definition First
Print Flashcards

Other learning activities

Answer a few questions about each word. Use this to prep for your next quiz! Compete with other teams in real time to see who answers the most questions correctly! Test your spelling acumen. Read the definition, listen to the word and try spelling it!

Teaching tools

Create and assign quizzes to your students to test their vocabulary. Assign learning activities including Practice, Vocabulary Jams and Spelling Bees to your students, and monitor their progress in real-time.

Full list of words from this list:

words only definitions & notes
  1. responsive
    readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli
  2. improvement
    a change for the better; progress in development
  3. temperance
    the act of abstaining, especially from drinking alcohol
  4. prohibition
    a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
  5. muckraker
    one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another
  6. scientific
    consistent with systematic study of the physical world
  7. management
    the act of controlling something
  8. commission
    a special group delegated to consider some matter
  9. council
    a body serving in an administrative capacity
  10. legislation
    law enacted by an assembly
  11. compensation
    something given or received as payment or reparation
  12. benefit
    financial assistance in time of need
  13. initiative
    the first of a series of actions
  14. referendum
    a legislative act referred for approval to a popular vote
  15. recall
    the act of removing an official by petition
  16. domestic
    of or involving the home or family
  17. suffrage
    a legal right to vote
  18. bully
    discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner
  19. pulpit
    a platform raised to give prominence to the person on it
  20. intervene
    get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
  21. collude
    act in unison and in secret towards a deceitful purpose
  22. remedy
    act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
  23. inspection
    a formal or official examination
  24. conservation
    careful management of the environment and natural resources
  25. reclamation
    the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use
  26. accommodation
    making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
  27. advancement
    encouragement of the progress or growth of something
  28. conservative
    resistant to change
  29. cease
    put an end to a state or an activity
  30. measure
    a statute in draft before it becomes law
  31. graduated
    marked with or divided into degrees
  32. revenue
    government income due to taxation
  33. financial
    involving fiscal matters
  34. reserve
    a district that is set aside for a particular purpose
  35. appease
    make peace with
Created on Wed Nov 16 11:41:50 EST 2016 (updated Fri Nov 18 11:52:27 EST 2016)

Sign up now (it’s free!)

Whether you’re a teacher or a learner, Vocabulary.com can put you or your class on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.