| A | B |
| mavericks | unbranded cattle |
| vigilance groups | self-appointed volunteers |
| Vaudeville | live variety shows |
| rebate | discount |
| Social Darwinism | only the strongest, most clever, most efficient business will survive |
| philanthropy | actions benefiting society |
| real wage | payment adjusted for inflation |
| company town | towns run and built by companies |
| scrip | company money |
| business cycle | reoccuring changes in business activity |
| lockouts | factory shut downs |
| scabs | replacement workers |
| collective bargaining | negotiations between an employer and labor union |
| anarchism | belief in no direct government authority over society |
| 14th Amendment | changed the Constitution to grant Af. Am. citizenship |
| 15th Amendment | changed the Constitution to grant male Af. Ams. the right to vote |
| emancipate | free |
| tenant farmer | farming rented land |
| impeach | bring charges against a public official with the intension to remove them from office |
| profiteering | charging excessive prices |
| carpetbagger | northerners who came south |
| sharecropper | worked the land and received part of the crop |
| segregation | practice of separating people based on race |