| A | B |
| The Gilded Age | great wealth and poverty |
| suburbs | site of middle class housing |
| steerage | bottom of the boat |
| tenements | urban apartment slums |
| settlement houses | provided medical care |
| Morrill Act | federal land for education |
| assimilate | to become part of culture |
| sweatshop | clothing factory |
| Salvation Army | aided the poor |
| Booker T. Washington | founded Tuskegee Institute |
| yellow journalism | exaggerated writing |
| Hull House | founded by Jane Addams |
| Mark Twain | realist and regionalist |
| spectator sports | favorite passtime |
| nickelodeons | began motion picture industry |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1st law to limit immigration |
| Joseph Pulitzer | New York World Publisher |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | famous Black Writer and Poet |
| Jazz | new music by African Americans |
| vaudeville | live variety shows in theater |