| A | B |
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| laissez-faire policy | the hands-off policy toward business and industry favored by the Republican-controlled federal government in the period after the Civil War |
| civil service | emoployment in the government, excluding the military |
| merit system | a job evaluation system that ensured that once people were hired, the only way they could lose their jobs was if they did not perform their duties well |
| disfranchise | to take the right to vote away from someone or some group |
| grandfather clause | a clause that restored the rights to vote to men who were unable to pay the poll tax or to read and write provided the man's grandfather could vote before the Civil War |
| Jim Crowe Law | laws that established segregation in public schools and other places |
| segregation | separation of the races |
| Populist | a member of the People's party |
| direct primary | a nominating election in which all of the party's members vote for the candidates of their choice |
| prohibition | forbidding by law the making or selling of alcoholic beverages |
| bankruptcy | a legal judgment that a person or business cannot pay its debts and that its financial affairs myst be handled to pay off creditors |
| inflation | a financial condition that occurs when the money supply increases rapidlu and there are not enough goods and services on which to spend it |
| imperialism | the practice of acquiring colonies for economic gain, prestige or missionary purposes |
| fringe benefit | an employment benefit beyond wages and or salaries (paid vacation, sick leave, health insurance) |
| labor union | an organization of workers formed to improve their wages, benefits and working conditions |
| strike | a work stoppage by workers in protest over some grievance |
| collective bargaining | discussions between union officials and management officials to negotiate wages, hours, working conditions and benefits |
| lockout | a mangement tactic whereby workers are literally locked out of the workplace |
| injunction | an order issued by a judge stating that something must or must not be done; often to force workers back to work |
