Money

Economic Progressive Era

  • laissez-faire

    laissez-faire
    a french term meaning generally "let people do as they choose"; policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy
  • trust-buster

    trust-buster
    someone who breaks up a trust into smaller companies; person who wanted to end all trusts
  • trusts

    trusts
    Combination of companies forming monopolies
  • prohibition

    prohibition
    the nationwide ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor in the United States that went into effect when the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified