| A | B |
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| bankruptcy | a legal judgement that a person or a business cannot pay its debts |
| civil service | refers to government employment, excluding the military |
| collective bargaining | negotiations between union officials and management officials to settle issues |
| direct primary | all of the party's members vote for the candidates of their choice |
| disfranchise | to take the right to vote away from |
| fringe benefits | an employment benefit beyond wages and/or salaries; examples include paid vacation, sick leave, and health insurance |
| grandfather clause | to give the vote back to poor whites |
| imperialism | the practice of acquiring colonies for economic gain, prestige, or missionary purposes |
| inflation | occurs when the money supply increases rapidly and there are not enough goods and services on which to spend it |
| injunction | an order issued by a judge |
| Jim Crow laws | established segregation in public schools and other places, restricted who could vote, and limited the civil rights of black South Carolinians |
| labor union | an organization of workers formed to improve their wages, benefits, and working conditions |
| laissez-faire policy | a French phrase that means "let (people) do (as they choose)." |
| lockout | used to prevent the workers from coming into the plant |
| merit system | ensures that once people were hired, the only way they could lose their jobs was if they did not perform their duties well |
| Populists | called for changes in government that would help small farmer |
| prohibition | forbidding by law the making or selling of alcoholic beverages |
| segregation | separation of the races |
| strike | a work stoppage by workers |
