| A | B |
|---|
| tenements | apartment buildings |
| urbanization | growth of cities |
| political machines | sophisticated organizations, controlled jobs, contracts, and favors |
| Tammany Hall | most famous machine |
| trusts | combination of companies dominating an industry |
| Jane Addams | helped the poor |
| Hull House | community center where neigborhood residents could learn to speak English, discuss political events, and hold celebrations |
| progressives | reformers |
| muckrakers | writers who motivated the public |
| Upton Sinclair | author of the Jungle, a novel about a Lithuanian immigrant who worked in the meatpacking industry |
| social gospel movement | Christians who emphasized the role of the church in improving life on the earth rather than in helping individuals get into heaven |
| settlement houses | institutions that provided educational and social services to poor people |
| Ida B. Wells | lead antilynching movement |
| Robert La Follette | governor of Wisconsin, fought to break the tight grip of the railroad tycoons and political bosses on the state government |
| direct primary | election open to all voters within the party |
| initiative | citzens were allowed to introduce a bill into the legislature |
| referendum | procedure by which voters cast ballots for or against proposed laws |
| recall | citizens had a chance to remove an elected official from office before the person's term ended |
