| A | B |
| Social Darwinism | Belief that only those who adapt to change will prosper |
| scrip | Paper money that is only good at a mill or plantation store |
| phosphate | Fertilizer ingredient that was mined in SC after the Civil War |
| Reform Darwinism | Belief that real progress comes through cooperation not competition. |
| Social Gospel | Belief that the church is responsibile for society as well as individuals |
| Tenant Farming | Where a farmer lives on the land of others and works for wages or for shares |
| lien | Mortgage on the next crop |
| Columbia Mill | First mill in the world to be powered by hydroelecteric power |
| Sharecropping | The land owner furnishes land and supplies and the laborer receives a portion of the crops as payment |
| "Shoeless" Joe Jackson | Mill league baseball player that went on to play for Chicago White Sox |
| Mark Twain | Writer of "Huckleberry Finn" |
| Textile Mills | Major industry in the Piedmont starting in the late 1800's |
| "Electeric City" | Nickname for Anderson, SC |
| Mill worker | Person who worker in a buliding that made textiles |
| Jane Addams | Founded Hull House, a community center |