Glossary

Pro bono

professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment

Progressive Movement

a turn-of-the-century political movement interested in furthering social and political reform, curbing political corruption caused by political machines, and limiting the political influence of large corporations.

Progressives

reformers favoring or implementing social reform or new ideas.

Prohibited

When something is banned, or not allowed.

Prohibition

a period of time between 1920 and 1933 when the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.

Public Policy

laws that address social problems and issues such as public health, criminal justice, and education.

Pupil placement laws

Laws used in Southern states to avoid desegregation by assigning individual students to the schools deemed appropriate for them and requiring a long and complicated process to request transfer to a different school.

Pupil placement laws

laws used in Southern states to avoid desegregation by assigning individual students to the schools deemed appropriate for them and requiring a long and complicated process to request transfer to a different school.

Pure Food and Drug Act

a 1906 law that banned the sale of mislabeled food or drugs.

Puritan

Members of a movement in the Church of England that wanted to “purify” it by removing practices they considered non-biblical, such as elaborate ceremonies.