| A | B |
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| Louis Sulivan | built the first skyscraper |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | spear headed the movement for planned urban parks |
| Central Park | large park located in middle of NYC ;by Olmstead |
| Orville and Willber Wright | first to fly at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina |
| Web Perfecting Press | printed on both sides of continuous paper |
| LInotype Machine | streamlined process of setting type |
| George Eastmen | developed a paper-based film; inventor of first camera |
| W.E.B Dubois | first African American to recieve a doctrate from Harvard |
| Booker T. Washington | opened Tuskagee Institute normal and industrial |
| Mark Twain | popular American novelist; wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn |
| literacy test | test given to voters to determine whether they could read |
| poll tax | money one had to pay in order to vote |
| grandfather clause | clause that allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that helped keep whites and blacks separate |
| segregation | the word used to describe racial separation |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Court case that upheld the Jim Crow laws |
| Brown v. Board of Education | caused desegregation or integration |
| Vaudeville | performance that included song, dance, and comedy |
| ragtime | music that combined African American and European sounds |
| Joseph Pulitzer | publisher of the World newspaper |
| William Randolphh Hearst | publisher of the New York Morning Journal |
| department store | large store that sold a variety of goods |
| mail order catalog | books from which consumers could buy goods |
| rural free delivery | system by which packages were brought directly to homes |
| discrimination | to judge someone differently based on certain factors, including race |
| exaggerated | that which goes beyond the truth or reality |
| sensational | intended to stir curiosity or interest |
| progressive movement | social reform movement in the early 20th century |
| prohibition | making the sale or use of alcohol illegal |
| muckraker | writer who exposes wrong-doing |
| Robert M. La Follette | Progressive Wisconsin Governor and senator |
| initiative | a way for people to propose laws directly |
| referendum | a way for people to approve changes in laws by a vote |
| recall | a vote on whether to remove a public official from office |
| suffrage | right to vote; a major goal fo women reformers |
| Upton Sinclair | novelist who exposed social problems |
| The Jungle | novel by Upton Sinclair describing meat-packing industry |
| Meat Inspection Act | Law reforming meat-packiing conditions, 1906 |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Law that stopped the sale of unclean food and drugs, 1906 |
