| A | B |
|---|
| Elisha Otis | Invented the elevator. |
| Skyscrapers | Built after the invention of the elevator. |
| Immigrants | People who came to the US from elsewhere. |
| Salvation Army | A new religion in the late 1800s. |
| Booker T. Washington | President of Tuskegee Institute |
| George Washington Carver | African American agricultural chemist. |
| Women's Christian Temperance Movement | Group opposing drinking. |
| Mark Twain | Ameican author who wrote Tom Sawyer. |
| Horatio Alger | Wrote about hard work and honesty. |
| Joseph Pulitizer | Newspaper publisher. |
| Social Darwinism | Those who succeed ar the fittest. |
| James Whistler, Winslow Homer | American artists of the period. |
| James Naismith | Invented basketball in 1891. |
| 1887-1892 | Rise of different forms of mass entertainment. |
| Hull House | Place for poor immigrants to settle into. |
| 1890's in literature | Authors wrote about poor treatment of the common man. |
| Yellow journalism | Exaggeration of the facts to stir up people. |
| Muckrakers | Those who described evils of the times. |
| Wobblies | Radical labor union promoting violence. |
| W.E.B DuBois | Called for protection of racial equality. |
